Today's Xbox studio consolidation might bring a new Halo sooner, but history shows production line development makes for boring games

Xbox is consolidating its studios and moving the Halo series to Activision with 268 team members, aiming to push out its biggest franchises like Fallout and Halo more quickly. The article argues that chasing an annual Call of Duty-style release pace wears down individual studios' quirks and flattens innovation, as Ubisoft's years of annual Assassin's Creed releases showed before the publisher dropped the yearly cadence.