>>714910216
I don't think big companies enforce studios to make games outside of like their top 3 IPs. Usually the dev teams submit game-design-documents to the lead developer for approval. So basically if nobody there cares or remembers Banjo, especially the lead dev, then it won't get done. It's not like they have a guy who specifically scans their IPs and is like "uuuh yeah it's been X years since the last entry we have to make a sequel." So yeah, I don't think Microsoft is intentionally withholding Banjo. It's more like none of the studios want to make a Banjo game.