Summary: Another blow for Microsoft's division that loses billions of dollars

MICROSOFT'S failure with Bungie is one that we last mentioned a fortnight ago. More broadly, Xbox 360 and Microsoft's gaming business have been a total disaster financially. After many lawsuits over Xbox 360 (e.g. RRoD, scratched discs, patent violations) comes yet another one. Wired reports:

Halo 3 players are suing the game’s publisher Microsoft and the developer Bungie, claiming that Halo 3 doesn’t work properly with the Xbox 360 console.

To make matters worse for Halo, a month ago Microsoft tried to deny that its Halo film had gotten cancelled, but this new report tells a different story.

...Microsoft’s major plan to make a series of games built around the Halo movie fell apart.

Microsoft leveraged its press to create extraordinary Halo hype; but this type of hype is not built to last, as Microsoft found out after it had spent hundreds of millions of dollars hyping up Windows Vista (and currently Vista 7). ⬆