They said on the forums that PGR is in MS hands now, and even if they decide to do something with it it won't be developed by Bizarre anymore.

I just hope they DO continue the series, because while there's merit in having the same developer do the game over and over, once you have a great base for it and a previous title to live up to and expand on, they just need to put it in capable hands.

I'm not devastated as long as it comes out and is a good game, I will be though if it goes the Rallisport way and just... fucking.. disappears entirely. *Still upset about no RSC3*

Then again, Bizarre is working on a new racer. So what if it's multiplatform as long as it's great. I just kinda doubt they'll be able to quite find that frequency of cool that PGR hit, without making a carbon copy with a new name. Which they've arguably already did with PGR1. :)

Halo is really the only franchise Microsoft handled 100% right. I could easily name... I dunno.. maybe six franchises they simply let die, when they could easily be additional flagship titles today. I sincerely doubt they'll stop making PGR games though, that'd be weird way out of proportion.

Then again, you'd think not making RSC3 is similarly insane. It's all about money though, and I'm not convinced either PGR or RSC were ever big incomes for MS. I seem to recall Bizarre being disappointed with how PGR3 did, and that was even a launch title.. so I guess you never know.

1. BC going MP was written on the wall. The Sega deal was a, "Put up or shut up" moment for MS. PGR sales have always been "good but not great". From MS's perspective you could argue it would cost too much to aquire them; from BC's perspective being exclusive but not internal means lower than ideal sales.

2. Oh gross... MS is gonna continue PGR with ANOTHER developers YUCK! Just let it die MS, let it die... "I" was right that MS owned the PGR IP (grape vine info). I think the series is a little extended and it just doesn't have the profile of a NFS or Burnout series. What, is MS going to let Turn10 make a PGR game... again, oh YUCK!

3. MS should have given BC the Bungie treatment. Didn't I just say the PGR games were good but not great sellers? Technologically no one is showing off the 360 like BC has, and their games are good. MS needs a studio to justify their platforms, and they also need a "Top of Class" racer for the mainstream. MS has Bungie and then... nothing better than BC. Lionhead is a good studio, but inconsistant. Ensemble is a good RTS maker, just not great. And RTS is still a smallish genre on the consoles. Turn10 is slow and while having a nice vision has issues executing. And Rare... ok, so BC would have been the 2nd best MS internal studio.

BC is actually quite tech savvy, has some really great tools, and can make consistantly good games. Leveraging such into the Xbox 3 and allowing them to work on some new IPs could have been a big win for MS. The idea of BC making a HUGE photorealistic city on the Xbox3 that is some sort of shooter or GTA game... drool!!!

4. Sigh... another good dev eaten alive by a large 3rd party pub. I guess Activision could use some racer action to go up against NFS.

Crappy news IMO. Essentially, MS gave BC the "NO" and BC had to find a publisher solution. I do wonder, as Moore was quite a BC fan, if he was around if things would have been different?

Any way you cut it: MS better figure out their internal studio issues... fast.

PGR will continue, says eurogamer. Well MS said it and eurogamer just rephrased it.. those.. bloody... journalists!

And it should die.

Seriously, WHO is gonna make a PGR game good enough to follow PGR4???