Microsoft Proudly Refuses to Stop Investing in Crap

February 9, 2009 by myka

SEATTLE - Microsoft will not be sacrificing new game franchises in the face of a poor performing economy, Gamesindustry.biz reports.

Microsoft believes that "The healthy companies will be the ones that have invested sufficiently during that phase that they've got exciting IP and innovative things happening for when that recovery starts to happen."

For those of you that don't speak "Corporate Bullshit", what that means is that Microsoft makes so much money by producing pretty much every electronic device you use at home that it doesn't have to worry about a few piddling millions of dollars they might lose. (Details after the jump.)

Don't believe it? Let's look at the spectacular line Microsoft has "invested suffciently" in recently.... First is the spectacular Rockband knockoff without any of the cool parts, Lips. Oh but wait, theres more! Lips also syncs up with the Zune! Which would be awesome if anyone owned one.

Some other winners are Scene It, which is based on a board game that uses video...so effectively, it's the same thing as playing the board game.

Last, and arguably least, is You're in the Movies. This game equates to hooking a webcam up to iMovie. Congrats on yet another spectacular innovation.

While we can certainly respect Microsoft for sticking by "original and creative" projects, I just don't see anything lately that's been original or creative coming from their studios. The question that begs to be asked is... why not just fund some indie hits, like Braid?

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