The last Halo Infinite rumour that has been doing the rounds over the past few days concerns the Xbox One version of the game, with mod-verified ResetEra user Sponger suggesting 343 Industries was considering dropping that version, as well as potentially even delaying the game until 2022 if necessary.
There was a fair bit of scepticism when Sponger posted this online however, and Halo Community Manager John Junyszek has today taken to Twitter to debunk the rumour:
This isn't the first time 343 has responded to rumours about Halo Infinite in recent weeks - the company also shut down suggestions that the Halo TV show was causing disruption to the game behind the scenes, as well as denying that the game's campaign mode was ever going to ship without multiplayer.
How do you feel about Halo Infinite targeting Xbox One? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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I highly doubted they would drop the Xbox One version, The whole game is built around the Xbox One lol
People have a weird fetish for being armchair developers. Why get so upset that we're getting an X1 version of Infinite?
Never mind closing stuff down and messing around on Twitter just focus on the dam game. Every employee at 343 should be micro managed and given 100% of their time to Halo Infinite.
It is very rare for the next gen version of a game to outsell the previous gen version. It would be insane to cancel the Xbox One version of Halo Infinite.
I hope the leaks aren't true and so this is good news.... however if 343i are targeting 31st December as a 2021 release then I obviously have other thoughts.
Well there is no plan now but plans happen further down the line 😂. The sooner the game is finished the better for everyone involved.
@IronMan30 I think some are still hoping they can force MS to make XSX exclusive games sooner, so they can.. Brag? Force others to upgrade? I don't know...
@Bmartin001 and that's the problem.
@IronMan30 because it's holding the game back that's why.
No issues keeping the Xbox One version - Just means more players can enjoy the game which is what all the hard work is for.
Let's all just wait till the game happens, and then judge it for it being held back.
@Darylb88 the graphics are scalable, yes. XSX has a far stronger CPU, more memory and SSD. By making the game for the X1 Halo will miss out on many new features. Stronger CPU: better AI, more enemies, etc. X1 is over 7 years old.
I think we just need to let them get on with it, and put some faith in them developing a fantastic game.. 🤷♂️
@Jarobusa You can buy the Xbox Series X Version and I can buy the Xbox One X version.. Consumer choice, the Microsoft way.
As long as it plays better then the garbage that was Halo 4 and the less worse hot mess of Halo 5 I'll be interested.
Just wish they'd drop the Xbox One all together so they can focus on one thing. They're clearly over stretched as is.
The funny thing about better AI: everyone wants better AI until they get better AI. Then everyine complains the games are too hard.
@Darylb88 @BANJO @CRAZYGREG0511 @Tharsman @IronMan30
Exactly! I agree with all of you. People need to stop complaining about this game & understand that 343 built a new engine from scratch, are creating an open world Halo game, and have had Covid to deal with. And a developer shouldn’t have to go through “crunch” just to appease a bunch of spoiled, impatient Xbox fanboys (I say that as an Xbox fanboy myself. Lol)
Xbox fans need to calm the $&!# down & let 343 make the best game that they can make. Go play one of the hundreds of games on Game Pass & relax. Halo will be fine & we’ll all be happy when it launches.......when it’s ready.
I’ll be playing in on XSX, but if other people want to play it on X1......that option is there, as well. I’m just tired of these whiny Xbox fans hating on this game after every news bit comes out.
Like you guys said.....let’s wait till the game comes out & judge it then. Sony delays almost every 1st party game & it’s “better for the game” when they do it. When Microsoft delays a game, Xbox fans lose their damn minds. 😂🙄
They don't have to make it XSX exclusive to make the next-gen graphics actually good. They just need to have bad lighting for the Xbone and raytracing/better screen-space lighting for XSX.
This is exactly why you don't count your chickens before they are hatched!
I can only imagine the state of the Xbox One version comsidering the demo we saw was running on PC and supposed to represent Series X.
If MS see this as a 10 year game, why include Xbox One?
At some point they would have to drop support for it anyway.
I know it ruins the message of 'no one is left behind', but some times you have to do what is best for the game and not hold it back.
Rumours like this are so dangerous. It builds up false hope and ultimately leads to undeserved resentment towards 343 for denying said rumour.
@Darylb88 indeed it is. But I want to see Halo use those 12 Teraflops. This is their premier game and with it being open type of game, it may last for years as not being the best it should be. I'm getting Destiny 1 vibes. It was held back because of the 360 and Ps3 version until Destiny 2 came out.
@KelticDevil
Unfortunately this simply isn't how game development works. So as someone that you've most likely played multiple games I've worked on, let me give you a run down:
The game was set to launch in November. When a game is set to launch it does gold between 1 to 3 month before launch. At this point the code is final, it goes through certification, and sent to print.
So we'll use a middle ground on that figure, 2 months. That means that Infinite would have had to have been finished and sent off to print in the next week or two.
Now immediately before that is wind down and before that the finishing crunch. SARS-CoV-2 didn't not start impacting until end of February/beginning of March, particularly in the US because people wanted to pretend it wasn't real. That in turn left 5-6 months of development time left when it hit. Right in prime crunch territory. They delayed the game at the beginning of August. At which point the game should have been in wind down.
Crunch is used to poliah and finalize already implemented features with bug squashing being the predominant task in this window. Given the nature of these final tasks it would have been evident that Halo was in trouble well before SARS-CoV-2 started making rounds last November.
This is also backed up by the complete information blackout on the game past the outsourced announcement trailer.
In short Infinite is a prime example of a mismanaged game that is trying to use current events as a patsy for them not having it together.
@InterceptorAlpha
Do we not want Halo to be the best game it can be? So my point about giving them the time they need stands.
Whether it was mismanagement or not, it doesn’t do anyone any good releasing a game that isn’t finished.
I get that people are excited for the game. I am too. I love the Halo series & own all the games. I am just tired of the rumors, misinformation, whining about this game right now.
@KelticDevil Sure they needed time. But dollars to dough uts that if they didn't have SARS-CoV-2 to use as a patsy they would not have delayed it.
The point of my post was to illustrate that they already knew they needed to delay it well into last year but chose until now to do it as they had a fall back.
It isn't whining but justifiable backlash towards a company that expect people to spend money on their product despite wonton mismanagement and outright lies.
@InterceptorAlpha
All of this is your opinion. And, obviously, you are entitled to it. Frankly, I don’t care.
Like I said.....all I care about is that Halo is great when it does release. That simple. And that is what is most important.
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