There are often questions from observers about how closely studios under the same parent company collaborate. Some publishers prefer to keep their studios separate, in case they lose the spark that made the studio worth buying in the first place. Others want their subsidiaries to be on the same 'team', sharing technology and occasionally collaborating directly.
According to Xbox's recently promoted chief content officer, Matt Booty, Xbox Game Studios are working more closely together than you probably thought.
It's a stacked year for Xbox anyway.
"It is the case that we got a lot of different kinds of studios, and they've all got their own cultures, so we think of it as a culture of cultures," Booty said in an interview with the Official Xbox Podcast (via Windows Central). "I see a big part of my job is to provide just enough connection and just enough structure across those that they can communicate with each other, that they can share things back and forth, but never to the point that we're coming in over the top trying to change who they are."
This most often takes the form of technology and technique sharing — we once heard from Bethesda that...
