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Well all know that Halo sells a gazillion copies when a major game in the franchise comes out every three years or so. Normally, publishers are pretty happy with that especially since everyone has recently been complaining about the "death of video games (and babies) due to the used sales market." Well that's just not good enough for Microsoft says corporate vice president Phil Spencer. No siree. Microsoft would actually like to sell a gazillion copies of Halo every year, making each new addition to the franchise an annual occurrence.
Speaking to IGN Spencer had this to say:
"I will say I think one Halo game every three years -- which was kind of our old cadence ? is probably not frequent enough,"
"We definitely think about a more persistent Halo engagement for customers and not going dark for two years, and Live helps obviously with multiplayer to keep people engaged," Spencer said. "[Newly-formed Halo developer] 343 Industries is thinking a lot about how to take this franchise and turn it into something that people feel like they have an ongoing relationship with and they can entertain themselves more often. But it's not, hey every November 6 or whatever we have to ship a game and build a production plan around that. We want to do things that make sense as a first party."
Of course he's not implicitly saying that this is the new business model for the series, but honestly we've been hearing this quite a bit as of late. Franchises have been being thrown to side-project developers for a few years now. It works like this.
Developer A releases a product. After release Developer B gets assets of the product to make another product, that will release in a year, while developer A keeps working on the original release to make another sequel which will arrive a year after that. This ping-pong approach has been used on Bioshock, Fallout, and now it seems Halo might be getting this treatment as well.
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13 years, 7 months ago
Not to mention Medal of Honor.
13 years, 7 months ago
The real problem with this is the multiplayer (from the consumer perspective, anyway). Every new EA Sports game, Call of Duty game and now (if this actually happens) Halo game will become obsolete where it really matters, in the multiplayer, 12 months after release when everyone's busy playing the new addition to the series.
Of course, this would make publishers very happy, since that means millions of new game sales every year. But it sucks for us if this happens, especially in this day and age where developers could easily follow the LittleBigPlanet model of releasing a game, nurturing the multiplayer community by periodically releasing additional downloadable content (that ACTUALLY enhances the gaming experience) and holding off on releasing a sequel.
13 years, 7 months ago
at the end of the day, it all comes down to what studios are handed these projects. you can get some good people to work on those titles and get great games from it while if you hand it off to a piss poor developer, your gonna get a piss poor product.
at the end of the day, video games is a business and MS wants to make as much money as they can.
13 years, 7 months ago
Microsoft want's more than two buildings to swim im. Haha
13 years, 7 months ago
They would probably need to stop releases for a few years and then make up the numbers for releases.
13 years, 7 months ago
Dear fucking god, you really want to run this franchise into the ground, Don't you Microsoft. How dose pumping out lower quality games, going to make people "Feel like they have a ongoing relationship with the developer" or "Entertain themselves more often" I'm pretty damn sure a lot of people had tons of fun playing Halo 3 multiplayer for the last three years.
13 years, 7 months ago
No Bungie, no purchase. I don't really have anything else to say.
13 years, 7 months ago
Just another reason why Microsoft doesn't care about you. They just care about your money
13 years, 7 months ago
If they release one every year, then how is the next Halo game going to get the hype that some of the previous ones get?
I hate comparing MS to Activision (cuz I think Activision is far more evil than MS will ever be...I hope), but is MS trying to follow in Activision's footsteps and do to Halo what Activision wants to do with Call of Duty? OMG.
13 years, 7 months ago
Doesn't 343 Industries mostly comprise of former Bungie guys? Anyway, the 3-year wait is what kept Halo fun, rather than pushing out a new one with a few tweaks and changes every year. Reach will likely be the last Halo game I buy, unless whoever makes the next one in the series comes up with something VERY interesting. And Bungie's deal with Activision... I refuse to give any more money to Kotick.
13 years, 7 months ago
Call of Halo: Modern Combat: Evolved
wat
13 years, 7 months ago
The day that Microsoft decides to release a halo game every year is the day I stop buying halo games. I don't want an unpolished piece of crap game like Call of Duty being released every year. The reason I buy halo games is because i actually know that Bungie manages to polish their games to a degree that doesn't make me drop the F-bomb every 5 seconds, and is actually FUN. So far I have yet to see a game that has been released annually be actually decent multiplayer-wise.
But I'm biased, if 343 industries manages to created a GOOD annual halo game then that's fine, I may not buy it but it's fine. I'd still prefer quality over quantity anyays.
13 years, 7 months ago
M$
12 years, 4 months ago
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