Matt Booty wurde ja gefragt, ob “The Coalition“ künftig auch an anderen IPS arbeiten könnte.
Seine Antwort, wo er mal das gesamte Studiosystem einbezieht:
"Right now our focus is really on making sure we deliver on the promise of Gears as we have spelled it out for the fans," Booty answers. "We have a lot of Gears content coming up. We have Gears Tactics. We are continuing to support [smartphone game] Gears Pop. That is the focus first and foremost.
„But, to your point, I think that it's not quite that cut and dry. One of the things I am excited about launching this Spring is Minecraft Dungeons. While that is part of the Minecraft franchise, it really is a new kind-of game. That game started as an independent project from some of the people in the Stockholm studio, who had an idea for a game, they worked on it in their own time... I remember before handing over the leadership of the franchise to Helen Chiang, we reviewed that product, it looked exciting, we put some resources behind it... and then under Helen's leadership, we evolved the possibility of taking the Minecraft franchise in a whole new direction.
"We also have situations like Everwild, which we announced at our XO event last year. Rare is a studio that is going off and creating something entirely new. So I think you'll find a spectrum of ways that new IP will come about within the studio system that we've got right now.“
„Obviously, we are really fortunate to have new studios like Ninja Theory and Obsidian, who are known for being able to come up with new worlds, new characters and new stories. I don't think any one studio is that pigeonholed. But with the big franchises that we are the stewards of, it is certainly our responsibility to the fans to continue working on those. But even within those boundaries, there is a lot of room to innovate within any given IP."