Nobody was on the hook for fourteen years of Halo

So over the course of the week, Microsoft now divested five studios and they cut 268 more roles.

And the next Halo is now an Activision project.

Bungie said it will restore the Destiny content and deleted six years ago.

And Resident Evil posted the biggest opening in the franchise 24 year history.

And Disney put the price of Disney Plus up by 13% in the same week it canceled Daredevil.

Four companies, one week, all of them working in the back catalog.

And the difference is whether the people who carried it get anything out of it.

Colin, you had a lot to say this morning.

Let's hear more about it.

Yeah, well, my newsletter went out at like some point this morning and I just wrote about, you know, all the Microsoft reviews.

I've written a lot about Microsoft, so I just like don't like repeating myself.

So I decided to focus on Halo and the death of Halo Studios effectively and it going to Activision because that was a really interesting topic.

And I understand what they're doing.

One end, it's like, oh, why don't we give this shooter game, our shooter game, to the shooter game company that is Activision, which makes complete sense on paper.

But where people are clapping and saying, this is the comeback of Halo, like, Halo's fans are, I probably would say, 35 and over.

By the time we see another Halo game, they're going to be over 40.

I'm going to be approaching 50.

So I'm just kind of lost at seeing this Halo matter as an IP.

So it's a great swing.

If it works, amazing.

And if it doesn't work, they now just collected all their assets of all the shooters under one

PNL, like me and Silly BC.

at best year of all Microsoft's gaming assets.

So I think it's like a have your cake and eat it too sort of thing.

And in terms of 343 Halo Studios, I'm sympathetic to all of them losing their jobs, but the fact that they went on a 14 year run of making bad games and not having consequences for that, like, guys, like someone in this middle layer, imagine a bit, 14 layers, Parasha, kind of dropped the ball when it came to Halo.

So over the course of the week, Microsoft now divested five studios and they cut 268 more roles.

And the next Halo is now an Activision project.

Bungie said it will restore the Destiny content and deleted six years ago.

And Resident Evil posted the biggest opening in the franchise 24 year history.

And Disney put the price of Disney Plus up by 13% in the same week it canceled Daredevil.

Four companies, one week, all of them working in the back catalog.

And the difference is whether the people who carried it get anything out of it.

Colin, you had a lot to say this morning.

Let's hear more about it.

Yeah, well, my newsletter went out at like some point this morning and I just wrote about, you know, all the Microsoft reviews.

I've written a lot about Microsoft, so I just like don't like repeating myself.

So I decided to focus on Halo and the death of Halo Studios effectively and it going to Activision because that was a really interesting topic.

And I understand what they're doing.

One end, it's like, oh, why don't we give this shooter game, our shooter game, to the shooter game company that is Activision, which makes complete sense on paper.

But where people are clapping and saying, this is the comeback of Halo, like, Halo's fans are, I probably would say, 35 and over.

By the time we see another Halo game, they're going to be over 40.

I'm going to be approaching 50.

So I'm just kind of lost at seeing this Halo matter as an IP.

So it's a great swing.

If it works, amazing.

And if it doesn't work, they now just collected all their assets of all the shooters under one

PNL, like me and Silly BC.

at best year of all Microsoft's gaming assets.

So I think it's like a have your cake and eat it too sort of thing.

And in terms of 343 Halo Studios, I'm sympathetic to all of them losing their jobs, but the fact that they went on a 14 year run of making bad games and not having consequences for that, like, guys, like someone in this middle layer, imagine a bit, 14 layers, Parasha, kind of dropped the ball when it came to Halo.