- CrazzySnipe55
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- Fabled Legendary Member
So I've been thinking recently, how does Bungie compare to the other really big game developers.
Sure, they don't have the numbers of a company like Blizzard. They don't have the funding of a developer like EA (not that they're bankrupt or a poor company just that they obviously don't have nearly the income as EA). They definitely don't have the popularity of one of the really big developers like Activision. And they don't develop as many games as a company like Ubisoft.
But does any of that really matter? I, personally, like to consider Bungie one of the unsung "heroes" (I would use the word "innovators" but the phrase 'unsung heroes' is too cliched not to use here) of the gaming industry. Nearly every game they've come out with in the past 10 years has been a hit. And yet they never seem to be at the forefront of gaming discussion on bigger mediums like television and such.
They have the 2 bestselling games on the Xbox (Halo: CE and Halo 2, obviously) and 3 of the top 12 best selling games on the 360 (H3, H:Reach, H3:ODST). [This is all according to the wikipedia article for best selling games of all time, so falsehoods are possible present in the above statistics]
Despite what people might say about their game most recent games (Reach specifically) about them being for "noobs" or all the little annoyances they may have with matchmaking, all their games are solid ones. And, they really do know how to craft a universe so that people give two -blams!- about the characters and the story therein. This is as opposed to games like Modern Warfare where if you went up to the average fanboy and asked them to recite to you a general synopsis of the Modern Warfare "story" they couldn't do it to save their grandma's life.
So I'll pose the question again simply for a lack of a way to end this OP not related to grandma death, why do you think Bungie is not as popular a developer as Activision, EA, Ubisoft etc... despite their continued ability to produce quality and popular games?