I am really sad I can’t jump in this holiday. It was easily my most anticipated game this year and I thought it looked super cool. But I can totally understand that decision and if I look at the most impressive games this gen, RDR2, TLOU2, all have been delayed multiple times and both turned out great so I am optimistic about this decision. Even C2077 has been delayed several times and that also looks to be a great game. As mentioned in the Halo OT, this game needs a running start if it wants to succeed with a 10 year plan. I really don’t want to see it launched when it’s not ready only to be patched over the course of the game. I know it worked for many titles but Halo is better than this and so I am supporting this decision.
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The team at 343 are definitely happy with this decision. And it’s the right call.
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Get use to the vague 2021. No ones going to say early or spring 2021 because these times are unpredictable second wave of covid could hit harder then the first so a simple 2021 is the best thing to say
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Bummer that I won’t be able to play it this year but other than that I can’t find anything negative about the delay. If the team needs the extra time they now have it.
This makes me more excited for the game.
Well I’m not a Halo fan but to me it did look rough and so the extra time makes sense,tbh I was hoping Forza was a launch title but that’s also 2021 sometime.
I am looking forward to that game that looks like Prometheos and Hellblade 2 the most so it’s not like the console will launch with no games.
Same as you excellent decision, it takes a lot of courage and comprehension of the parts involved to make such decision. Big responsability but I understand and I applaud that. No matter what were the technical hurdles before, people’s lives are way more precious than anything.
Agree that they should ditch the Xbox One version to only work on the next gen one plus have an extra year to fully focus and maximize all the improvements possible. It is their flagship they need get get it right 100% or they will be eaten alive.
Also as usual nothing surprising, some people are short sighted and impatient unaware of the challenges of this year let alone what could be coming next. Consumerism behaviour, wanting everything right now not caring about anything ouside the product. And you see people changing tune when it is other studios doing it, it’s ok but when it’s 343 it’s all doom & gloom.
Damn you do, damn you don’t.
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Fuck sake …2020 has been ruthless…suppose its for the best …series X launch line up is looking a little light now …
If devs are happy, which is expected, then there is nothing more to say. More time, less stress, better work, healthier life, in the end the game will benefit of all these positives.
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When this was announced, I think it was the best I’ve felt hearing there was a game delay…maybe ever. Reason: Halo is my favorite franchise. #1 reason I’ve stayed on the platform through the years. Before the July show, my hype was unrealistically high. After the July show, I needed to lay down. Multiple replays of the demo had me feeling much better about the gameplay potential but it felt like this game was relying more on prayers than science to make it to a polished finish line.
This is hard decision for the Xbox division. There will be a cost to this. Sales will be effected. The trolls and doomsayers will feast. That’s why this is one of the most encouraging moves I’ve seen from the Xbox 1st party in many years. Maybe even more than buying studios. It shows that they are putting the brand quality over short term and even medium term gains. It speaks not just for Halo but all the games in their pipeline and future studios they add.
Long term, Halo will be better. Developers will be better off. Hopefully it lays down a message that gamers and developers pick up…it’s really not the same Xbox 1st party. It’s much better and it will pay off long term.
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I mean there was only a major worldwide pandemic keeping people from going to work! Obviously they weren’t equipped to work on a game as big as that remotely. Xbox’s biggest IP surely doesn’t deserve to be launched in a half assed state.
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This man is right. Give the team time to polish this game up. I think with Series S Xbox will be fine
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It honestly seems like they didn’t, I think Halo Infinite will be a great game and I think the scope of the game is huge which is why they built a new engine for it but I’m surprised that MS didn’t have something else in the works just in case or moneyhatted a 3rd party game, anyway I think they can compete with a Lockhart and GamePass.
I don’t know what’s happening within 343. How much impact it is to rebuild a game engine. What impact switching creative leads a year ago had. How good the new engine is. What the scope of Halo is. None of it. We can only speculate.
The only objective information I do have to work with is:
- The pandemic’s impact, especially on big teams is real
- Next gen APIs and final dev kits for Series X came in late
- The current creative leads for Halo Infinite are all completely different from the ones who built Halo 5
- Big AAA games using new game engines with both substantial single and multiplayer modes targeting 2 generations of hardware is a massive undertakings that we haven’t seen before
It’s not about excuses or predictions. It’s a monumental task with new leads who have an unprecedented challenge. Delays for AAA games are not a new phenomenon in the best of times. Let’s catch our breaths (and let the devs catch theirs) and give this mostly new creative group a chance.
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This is certainly not what the news I expected to wake up to. Wow. I’m surprised.
I’m hoping it releases Around March/April as that is probably when there could be a slow down in sales for the console without any major releases and Halo could be that title filling that gap there just like Titanfall did back in 2014 except with a much bigger impact since it’s Halo. Considering we don’t know much about 2021 though the delay does make some sense as most units should get sold this holiday season anyway and 2021 needed some titles. But they’ll have to heavily advertise stuff like The Medium and Gears Tactics and make Xbox Series X the place to play .
Also would be really nice if they had some form of Halo Infinite open beta at launch.
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Must of been a tough choice to do this. It will suck a bit not having a halo game at launch , but its ultimately the better outcome for the game. Also its not like the PS5 has anything big for launch.
April/May would be a good time and it does take me back to when Oblivion launched on the 360 lol. However, I have a feeling, due to rumours about the development coming to almost a standstill when they moved to wfh, we will eventually be looking at a year delay so we could see the game launch in September.
Forget Spring 2021. A few months isn’t enough time and in a way would defeat the purpose of even delaying the game. November 2021. 20th Anniversary. Far better game. More polished. Ray Tracing. Full campaign and online multi-player day one on Game Pass. 
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They should probably release it near horizon 2.