Microsoft plans to learn from its mistakes.
What you need to know
Lionhead Studios built the classic Fable franchise across the original Xbox and Xbox 360.
Microsoft pivoted Lionhead to work on Kinect games, and later a service-type multiplayer Fable game.
In the end Microsoft shuttered Lionhead, but has vowed to learn from their mistakes when it comes to future acquisitions.
Microsoft has a 6-part documentary series describing the trials and successes of Xbox, from its very inception all the way up to the present. In one of the episodes, World`s Edge studio head Shannon Loftis, VP Sarah Bond, and Xbox lead Phil Spencer all discuss Lionhead Studios, the British outfit known for the Fable franchise.
In the show (via IGN), the Xbox team reflect on the closure of Lionhead, which they describe as a mistake to learn from.
Shannon Loftis, who led Global Publishing at the time, lamented: `One of the biggest missteps that we learned from in the past was Lionhead. We had already publi...
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