Confirmed no Halo tomorrow:
https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/a2u5jc/so_nothing_at_the_game_awards/eb5hdoi/
https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/a2u5jc/so_nothing_at_the_game_awards/eb5hdoi/
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Microsoft Studios |OT3| I thought they were supposed to be sold off by now
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No surprise, save the big guns for E3.
Still, I can't wait to see what Obsidian have been working on.
I hope Amazon doesn't enter as a console manufacturer. While competition is good, 3 (4 with PC) is already a really crowded market. I'd rather Amazon comes in as a big publisher/licences their cloud services to others, but leave the consoles to those already here.
That being said, if they do release a console/streaming platform, I'd at least expect them to stick with it and eat up costs longer than Google or Apple.
If anything you could buy the IP but they'd be auctioned off I'd have to guess
Looking forward to that Sea of Thieves podcast with Matt Booty. Interested to see his vision on games and teams. Hope the podcast will have some depth.
https://www.343industries.com/careers
Several new jobs appeared in the last month.
Interesting ones:
production
-outsource producer
-senior live producer
-executive business administrator
design:
-senior level design
art
-senior enviroment artist
-multiplayer lead artist
Looks like the situation is pretty intense in 343
Several new jobs appeared in the last month.
Interesting ones:
production
-outsource producer
-senior live producer
-executive business administrator
design:
-senior level design
art
-senior enviroment artist
-multiplayer lead artist
Looks like the situation is pretty intense in 343
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This is something I've thought about for a while. Their solution seems to be to just get a LOT of studios. Hopefully it's cost effective for them.
https://www.343industries.com/careers
Several new jobs appeared in the last month.
Interesting ones:
production
-outsource producer
-senior live producer
-executive business administrator
design:
-senior level design
art
-senior enviroment artist
-multiplayer lead artist
Looks like the situation is pretty intense in 343
This almost doesn't seem like a good sign, at least not for people wanting halo sooner rather than later
Isn't level design blocked out pretty early on usually? Artists I can see coming later, but that list includes senior level designer. Not even some extra guy for man power. The lead person. Hm :/
Typically yes, but if the lead is going to leave or something relatively soonish, they'd want a replacement and train the person. Listings can stay up for even over a year at times until they get to the point where they actually need the person.
Spencer: I'd Hesitate to Look for a Studio That's Only Capable of Developing Games on One Device
https://wccftech.com/spencer-hesitate-studio-only-one-device/
Too lazy to copy the content of the article so go there for reading ...
https://wccftech.com/spencer-hesitate-studio-only-one-device/
Too lazy to copy the content of the article so go there for reading ...
Makes sense given he expects almost all of their devs to simultaneously deliver their games on PC and Xbox.
The pessimistic angle here is that a lot of people will be moving on after concluding their work Halo Infinite and 343i.
I don't think there's another studio out there that talented that feels as wasted as 343i do by continuing to desperately claw on to an IP that has had its best days behind it and is continuously declining in sales and relevance. Oh well.
It's consistent with what Phil has said about wanting games available wherever and whenever consumers want them.
Halo is ~2 years out, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't get a substantial showing until E3 2020
For all the Halo thirsty fans desperately waiting for news why not read or re-read some of the books. I learned something very interesting in the last one named "Halo Silent Storm" which I did not know about the 117 story.
I will not spoil that. But it is a neat info about John-117. You will notice it as soon as you read it.
It is how he actually got the Master Chief rank and the circumstances around it.
Could have said the same about God of War 4 before it released, yet look what happened there. It's as big as ever now.
People saying that Halo is a dead IP that will never get popular again are annoying.
I completely disagree. People act like the series is on this huge decline. Halo 4 was the fastest selling game in the series and likely sold above 10 million. Halo 5 has declined a bit probably around 8 million sells and that's most likely duo to 343's bad approach to the campaign. A must step caused 1 game to decline 20%. The series is fine and is one great game away from having another 10 million seller.
My second point is halo is still awesome and It always will have a place is my heart. Pump away 343.
This got completely ignored on the next gen thread so I thought I did post it here, Brad Sams from Thurott talking abut about next gen:
Also an arcticle abput Phil speaking at a Barclays event:
https://wccftech.com/spencer-hesitate-studio-only-one-device/
Also an arcticle abput Phil speaking at a Barclays event:
https://wccftech.com/spencer-hesitate-studio-only-one-device/
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My dude, I like a lot of your ideas on things but this overly negative, non-subjective constant putdown of Halo and 343 is tiresome and filled with non-facts.
1. You don't know what these devs feel.
2. They aren't "desperately" clawing on to the IP. It's the job they were hired for. Do you desperately claw at your job? Don't be ridiculous.
3. How would you know the best days are behind it? What determines that exactly? Many IP's have had that said about it only to rebound with later entries. You don't give up on iconic, influential and STILL currently money making IP's.
4. Your claim of continuous declines in sales is disingenuous seeing as 5 did gangbusters for MS
5. Relevance or the lack thereof is not solely due to the game itself but many factors, like competition in the FPS market with COD and Battlefield. You don't even try to use context here.
I honestly do not get this desire from you to wholly abandon iconic and well selling IP's. It makes no fiscal, or even basic common sense.
[…] we've built Game Pass and it started on the Xbox One console. It will come to PC and eventually it will come to every device
I would have said the same about Amazon offering TV show streaming, yet then arrived Prime Video. I think they realized they can have their cake and eat it too (i.e. AWS supplies services to competitors of the bigger Amazon, look at Netflix using AWS as an example). AWS can be a partner for Nintendo and Sony, while Amazon can have their own "Amazon Prime Games". With Google and Microsoft planning to offer game streaming, there is no significant neutral competition.
Exactly. Thank you. Btw, Halo 5 was the fastest selling not 4. It also had the biggest launch of any title I believe up until FH4. It may still have it being it's biggest selling IP this gen still.
https://www.amazon.com/Halo-4-Game-...rds=halo+4&dpPl=1&dpID=51mynT29AXL&ref=plSrch
Says halo 4 is the best selling halo game ever on the cover art.
Also no way that halo 5 was the fastest selling one. Frankie said it did 5 million in 3 months. Halo 3,4 and reach probably sold faster. Nonetheless halo 5 has sold good.
No sir. That is 5
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikka...-biggest-launch-in-halo-history/#3f0095c09e74
Halo 5: Guardians is the fastest-selling Halo game to-date according to Microsoft.
The game's launch also marks the biggest so far on the Xbox One, with over $400 million in global games and hardware sales, bringing total franchise sales to over $5 billion.
By comparison, Halo 4 made $220 million in its first 24 hours, and $300 million in its first week, making it the biggest Halo launch at the time.
it wont be allowed on playstation or Nintendo for obvious reasons, i think its probably more xcloud + gamepass for mobile use
Halo getting 4-5 years between games is crazy to me. 5 launched in October of 2015
That teaser at E3 looked great though, so I welcome the longer development time because they're definitely on the right track
If it doesn't launch until 2020, that means it's a Scarlett launch title which could be something special.
So with Below finally having its release date, tomorrow HAS to be Ashen:s release at the TGA, because what other Xbox indie titles could they have meant? Plus that the Ashen Twitter has been saying it several times that it would release this year.
I think that it will be cross-gen since it has already been announced for the One but yeah it'll look incredible on Scarlett.
I think it's much needed. A Halo game every year is a bit much.
I wish it did that good but no. Halo 4's 300$ million was game sells only. Halo 5's 400$ million included console sells. It did not sells more copies than halo 3 or 4 at launch. Both halo 3 and 4 did about 4 million copies sold through to consumer in its first week. Halo 5 did 5 million shipped(including digital) in 3 months.
Halo clearly isn't releasing next year. So that leaves early to mid 2020 or simply late 2020 so that it launch with the Scarlett. It will definitely be the latter.
Scarlett could launch in early 2020 like the switch did. Zen2 and Navi will be ready by the end of this year so early 2020 is a real possibility.
They didn't announce it for 2019 like they did for Gears, so reading between the lines it's definitely 2020 or later. Common theory is cross-gen launch title for their new system, sort of a BOTW situation. If they really want to make a reinvigorate the series, then going big and taking a long time to make it is the perfect way to do that.
Personally, open world halo sounds very unexciting so I hope it's not that, but I would be lying if I said that I didn't think the market would lap that up.
Never thought of that possibility. Have Xbox consoles ever come out around those times? The OG Xbox? I know for sure the 360 didn't.
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