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Halo was MIA at the Xbox Games Showcase and Phil Spencer reveals why

The Microsoft Gaming CEO explains why Halo wasn't at the biggest Xbox show of the year.

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Jin_Sakai347d ago (Edited 347d ago )

That’s because Starfield is the next Halo since you let Bonnie Ross destroy 343i and didn’t take action sooner so Halo is now on the back burner.

darthv72347d ago

...and yet this back burner is getting some new maps for season 4 next week. To which you even said it the best trailer yet... go figure.

LOGICWINS347d ago

Anyone who thinks Halo isn't a priority for MS isn't playing it. We've been getting consistent updates ever since Bonnie Ross left.

Jin_Sakai347d ago (Edited 347d ago )

“and yet this back burner is getting some new maps for season 4 next week. To which you even said it the best trailer yet... go figure.“

Yet they couldn’t show the trailer during their showcase. So it’s indeed put on the back burner marketing wise. Obviously it’s still getting updates from the studio.

1Victor345d ago

Remember that we as gamers have to understand that game developing is now going to take 6-10 years 🤷🏿 so 2027+ for the next halo if it’s rushed 🤦🏿

-Foxtrot347d ago

“If we loose our way with Halo, we loose our way with xbox”

- Phil Spencer

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Lightning77347d ago (Edited 347d ago )

That statement no longer applies seeing how Halo isn't the only big game to ship anymore.

Back then it made sense because that's all they had obviously.

Number1TailzFan347d ago

@darthv72 Yeah I've noticed some people have awful grammar these days. Don't know the difference between then & than, loose & lose, being & been. I mean I'm nowhere near perfect in grammar but even I know the difference between the basics. I see this happen often on forums etc.. Even from people that only know English!

shinoff2183346d ago

Number1tailzfan

You can attribute some of it with English not being their(you forgot this one their and there) Then I'd say some of it being people on phones and autocorrect. I get autocorrected all the time to words I wasn't even trying to type most of the time I can fix it but sometimes proofreading gets by me. If I'm at work and typing , if a machine alarm goes off I gotta get to the machine blah blah blah , it happens. Then your right society has gotten alot worse since everything will fix it for you

ApocalypseShadow346d ago (Edited 346d ago )

Amazes me how they nitpick smaller, irrelevant things but not the actual TRUTH in what you just said. Countering about a grammar mistake. Not what Phil said about Halo. Making excuses like

"Well, they have more titles now."

Shitty excuses. Sony has new IPs like Horizon or Ghost of Tsushima. But GT7, their flagship title, is just as great as before and plays in VR for increased immersion. Sony didn't let their title slide into the toilet.

They talk about maps as if that changes the fact that Microsoft's flagship title is in the shitter. Not even close to the media darling it once was that rivaled Hollywood releases and revenue generated.

Missing key features of previous Halo titles like co-op. They think the long fix of drip fed patches drops here and there like Sea of Thieves or waiting for 60fps updates is getting new gameplay for unfinished games.

But let him nitpick "loose." It's not like they can nitpick truth.

jwillj2k4345d ago

You’re really trying to hold Phil Slickster to his words in 2023? Lmao..

PhillyDonJawn345d ago (Edited 345d ago )

@Shadow it has CoOp and the content drops was planned from day 0. The issue is some of these game modes that the game didn't launch with could've easily been their day 1 or 30 or day 100. It like they purposely left stuff out so they can put it in a season and that's what rub me the wrong way. Like I can understand forge coming late as it wasn't ready from a development standpoint. But there's 0 excuse for why we're just now getting infection.

FinalFantasyFanatic345d ago

Halo lost it's way 2 or 3 games ago, I can't really think of many titles that are actually sustaining Xbox apart from Halo, Gears and Forza.

Hardly anyone cares about the multiplayer in Infinite, I think most are going back to older Halos for multi-player or moving onto other shooters. They really took their time drip feeding content into Infinite's multiplayer, and I think they really hurt them as people aren't interested enough to come back.

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Miraak82 346d ago

I have a feeling Bungie/Sony's Marathon will be more halo then halo now could ever hope to be lol ... and it won't be on GP

Sonic1881345d ago

I have a feeling you're right

PhillyDonJawn345d ago (Edited 345d ago )

😂 did you see the trailer for marathon? and read what they said on how players from your team actions will affect the whole squad? And you think that's gonna be more like Halo than literally the closest halo game to halo 3 343 has made? Yall say anything on this website. Do you even play halo?

FinalFantasyFanatic345d ago

I would love that, I've been looking for a good Sci-fi shooter experience like earlier Halo games, but nothing scratches the itch, Titanfall 2's single player got close for me though.

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sparky77347d ago

MS just has too many games to show, some had to take a backseat and one of those games was Halo. Simple as that.

The Wood345d ago

With new content soon to be released that doesn't look smart or good for their flagship franchise. Seems excuses > logic nowadays

FinalFantasyFanatic345d ago

I would have prioritized the first party and exclusives, alot of people are just going to buy those games on other consoles or PC.

KingKionic 347d ago

Microsoft has 23 studios. After awhile there just gonna have to make there shows longer.

Xbox too strong in these streets.

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Double_O_Revan345d ago

Same. It still blows my mind how hard people defend Microsoft. I bailed on them in 2007. 15 years ago! Because even back then they clearly weren't committed to investing in and making 1st party games and exclusives. How has it been 15 years and people still don't see the truth behind all the promises and lies?

And even if they finally did get their act together and start investing in their studios, rather than just buying them, hasn't it been too long to care? People are missing out on SO many good games because there is a 'chance' that Microsoft will Finally have something worth while to release.

I can't even count the number of great exclusives I've played on other platforms over the years because I left the Xbox ecosystem behind and moved on. The delusion in some people is real and it's scary.

Zhipp344d ago

@Double
Xbox was pretty strong on the exclusive front in 2007. Not so many first party studios back then though, but it would've taken some foresight to know back then they third party exclusives were going to be timed. Especially coming off of the PS2 generation.

Lightning77347d ago

Good I'm glad it wasn't there didn't need to be there. Enough of shoving Halo in my face show me other interesting games for once.

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Halo Infinite's Split-Screen is One Step in The Right Direction

Halo Infinite has spilt screen PvP, but it's still missing another classic multiplayer feature that should be completed before Halo 7.

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Jin_Sakai3d ago

Putting on PS5 is another step in the right direction so the player base can grow.

anast2d ago

How many years has it been?

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken3d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty3d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken3d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty3d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken3d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0072d ago (Edited 2d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken2d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot2d ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto2d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer2d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek2d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken2d ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie2d ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12083d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast3d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit3d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export3d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2033d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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Naughty Dog Boss Neil Druckmann Says AI Will 'Revolutionize' Development

Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'

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Jin_Sakai5d ago

I’m more interested in what else he said.

“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’

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H95d ago

It will be something like "we erased gameplay all together it's just a movie now"

purple1014d ago

every time naughty dog make a game, you play it and get the feeling "this is not possible'

from the boulder running towards you in crash, on ps1,
to the massive open world of jak and daxter, on ps2,
to the QuickTime events sequences of uncharted on ps3/4

and now we will see what they do with ps5,

H94d ago

Press X for doubt at "PS5"

-Foxtrot4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Arrogant asshole who sniffs his own farts bigs up next game…sounds like typical PR to me

You know what I find interesting? Almost every site reporting this as the main title where the REAL interesting bit of the interview is Neil praising AI and saying it will be used to help push story, characters, dialogue and more.

It’s super shitty to big up AI especially when it comes to story telling and other creative elements.

senorfartcushion4d ago

Just because someone says this type of stuff, it doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be good news.

You can say this about microtransactions. MXTs revolutionised the gaming industry.

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Levii_924d ago

Geez how full of themselves are these guys.

Einhander19724d ago

He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.

CrimsonWing694d ago

I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.

Chard4d ago

Things will get far sloppier brother

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