Lionhead Studios – A Misstep for Microsoft

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Written by ValH on December 16th, 2021

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Back in 2016, Microsoft disbanded Lionhead Studios, the team behind the Fable series. But with a new Fable game on the way, and with Microsoft actively buying out RPG developers to fuel their Game Pass service, we now get this PC Gamer article where Microsoft’s execs admit to that whole thing being one of their biggest missteps.

Here’s a couple of quotes to get you started:

“We acquired Lionhead in 2006, shut it down in 2016,” Bond continued. “A couple years later we reflected back on that experience: ‘What did we learn? How do we not repeat our same mistakes?'”

Phil Spencer implied that Lionhead’s demise shaped the way Xbox viewed its developers. “You acquire a studio for what they’re great at now,” he said. “And your job is to help accelerate how they do what they do, not them accelerate what you do.”

Lionhead Studios – A Misstep for Microsoft
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