In August, Microsoft and 343 made the incredibly tough decision to delay the release of Halo Infinite until 2021.
So, when can we expect to hear more now that the project has been pushed back? According to 343 Industries' Community Director Brian Jarrard (via the Halo subreddit), the team has been hard at work and hopes to release a "high level" update within the coming weeks.
"Right now we're still going through the huge cascade of implications and ramifications to the release shift and the team is heads down working through nearly every facet of the game. Full disclosure we don't have anything planned for the VGAs, but are hoping to offer at least a high level update within the next few weeks so we can kind of restart this journey together after the holidays. Pulling together something like a demo or big beat for the VGAs is an enormous amount of work and would cause challenges with current milestones of the holidays. I know it's hard to wait, but the team is going to make the most of this extra time and we want to make sure we can put our best foot forward and commit to greater transparency and dialog on the road ahead. We'll get there and get the train going again."
Notably, there's nothing planned for the Video Game Awards and this next update is to help "restart" the journey.
Since Halo Infinite was delayed, Halo and Bungie veteran Joseph Staten has joined 343 as a project lead for the game's campaign, and more recently the director Chris Lee left.
What are you expecting from a possible "high level" Halo Infinite update? Let us know in the comments.
[source reddit.com, via windowscentral.com]
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Restart the journey, eh?
I hope that means Series X/S exclusivity. Needing to make 5 different versions of this game had to have stretched resources thin. If its just the latest consoles, then Xbox can provide the ultimate experience
'The Great Journey'
Let's hope this one ends a little better haha
Sounds like a load of marketing crap to me. Just get on with making the game even half decent.
I doubt very much they will be ditching the older generation, too many sales numbers there and money for it to be ignored.
'High level' meaning "we're making great progress on Halo Infinite and hope to share more with you soon"
That's my pessimistic side coming out. In all seriousness, I would hope for some new footage, perhaps exclusivity to the Series X/S.
Judging from that gameplay reveal that's a lot of work needed, obviously wasn't ready but pushed to show something to get people hyped but ended up doing the opposite.
The game needs to scrap last gen and just come out for the series S/X
Tbh seing the other cross gen games just reconfirms that the reaction to it was overblown.. Still will be nice to see what they have added
Lets just hope they release the MP and campaign at the same time..
The Xbox One version is already mostly done and we saw it when we saw the "next gen" demo. No point in cancelling it. They just need to show us what ray-traced global illumination and other lighting improvements do for this game. Sony showed off a proper next gen Miles Morales and was able to ship a flatter looking PS4 version and no one said you needed to cancel the PS4 version to make a proper next gen game. The same can happen here, they just need the next gen lighting to prove it.
@Vincent294
My only concern for Halo Infinite, is that Spiderman MM uses RT with a 30FPS cap, whereas I believe Halo is going for 60FPS.
So unless they come up with some wizardry, they may have to offer a 30FPS mode for campaign with RT, and a 60FPS mode without, same as Spiderman MM.
I truly believe Microsoft needs to bring in one of their other studios to make Halo "light" games. A partnership the same way Turn 10 and Playground Studios do the Forza Motorsports/Horizons. I think the reason 343i was blindsided with infinite was because they haven't released a new game in 5 years and couldn't read the market. Stop making people wait so long and you won't have to scramble.
@blinx01 Why not limit the xbox one versions to 720P 30FPS , the one X 4K30FPS and the Xbox Series to 60fps this would make the game much easier to handle not to mention that the Xbox one is really weak compared to the ps4 so cross gen games will be much easier in Sony sides
@Kefka2589 I think Sony's change of plan may have been to do with the pandemic. Software sales would be massively affected if it was tied to a console you can't get which would hurt Sony in both areas (hardware sales affected because they can't create enough consoles).
We could see a similar situation on Xbox if xCloud for console is still far away. Currently we have Flight Sim, Psychonauts 2 and Halo Infinite having been announced for XB1 at some point in the past. More may be announced in the future.
Simply, 343 just needs to make Halo Infinite the best game it can be & the next great Halo game.
Well, The Game Awards is in a few weeks, so that’s probably what they’re referring too. That’s probably where we’ll get new looks at everything that was previously announced, including Breath of the Wild 2 and Elden Ring.
@JesWood13 The Game Awards is the spiritual successor to the VGAs (Spike Video Game Awards which happened between 2003 and 2013) so the comment is saying Infinite isn't at the Game Awards.
@Grumblevolcano What? Are you high? I said it would probably be at the game awards because they show new trailers for games there as well, dumb *****.
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