The Coalition

Like, there are only, like, three studios left, uh, I think, under that banner right now.

Uh, there is, there is basically just, like, The Coalition, which is currently working on Gears E-Day.

Uh, there is-

Which they also laid off, like, one of their directors right before launch.

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The Coalition being, like, gutted o- once their games come out.

Um, unless they're, like, huge success stories.

Like, they have offloaded or sold all of the studios that were acquired over the last 10 years.

The only studios that are left that are like specifically under Xbox now are inXile, Playground Games, and uh, uh, The Coalition.

That's it.

Those three studios.

So yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I personally, like personally, like yeah, I think, you know, The Coalition, I can see that moving under Activision in another year, and I think InXile will go under Bethesda 'cause they're an RPG studio.

And then Playground Games, I don't know, I don't know where you'd put them.

But now

the only exclusives that are back are the Coalition's game and in Exile's game.

Right.

Like Activision doesn't release exclusive just for Xbox.

as soon

as this ships like this happened already with with the coalition right and there was talk of someone losing their job like literally like as soon as it went gold kind of thing it's like oh it's

well unfortunately you look at it and all the teams that have games to launch in the relative near future they have not touched so they have not moved because I thought for instance I was surprised that in exile didn't also go under Bethesda at the same time as Obsidian but my guess is that Microsoft don't want to upset whatever the marketing plan is for Clockwork Revolution that's been built.

And probably Bethesda doesn't want to inherit a marketing plan and have to retrofit it to how they do things.

So you leave Clockwork Rev where it is.

You leave the coalition where they are until Gears of Ships and you've done your post-launch stuff.

And Playground also.

you leave them.

They can't handle multiple studios.

The Coalition somehow, the Coalition with a C, the Coalition somehow is the only one that had the spinoff, you know, because they had to pick it up from Epic, Gears that is, and did a pretty decent job.

But 3.4.3 just didn't have that same sauce that Bungie did.

And You know, we saw it throughout their whole...

Yeah.

A lot of projects were being subsidized by Minecraft.

so you still have minecraft still generating revenue still got licenses with every other uh console so it doesn't matter what you buy minecraft on the switch microsoft gets a cut of that uh so you have to cut all everything else out and just focus on on key ips so they're just gonna do what's safe now i don't know like we were joking about fable fable seems to be still happening but you gotta course correct that game if you if you have weirdo hobgoblins as characters i don't think anybody's gonna go for that uh you know um forza is not um you know a system seller it's people love it but it's not i don't think it's it's that key uh so they're trying to salvage halo which is the move to activision They're going to lean on Gears, so Coalition has to come through with this next game.

And they're going to have to just try to consolidate and figure out something like lean on, I guess, Fallout 5, Elder Scrolls 6, whatever else they got going on.

I hate that.

And Coalition is a fantastic studio.

Even if you were to say, oh, I don't really care for the Gears of War games, from a technical perspective, the Coalition is one of the top technical video game studios out there that utilizes Unreal Engine.

They make Unreal Engine games look and perform better than Epic does, and Epic makes the dang engine.

So it would be...

You are gone.

So clearly the coalition also received some amount of layoffs.

I would assume that's not part of that 200 number that we got from Halo.

So it's still a little unclear how many people are gone necessarily.

So there were three studios that haven't moved.

So Playground, InXile and Coalition all have games coming out in the next 12 months, 12-ish months.

And so, you know, let's not unsettle that and get those games launched.

And I think you think when you think a playground could that, you know, actually in Exile seems like an obvious fit for Bethesda, but I'm not quite the playground.

So there's that.

But you'd end up with a lot in Bethesda

in that sense, because I think actually Coalition probably belongs there as well, in the sense that the people who are publishing Doom probably make a lot of sense to publish Gears.

Yeah, I don't know.