Bungie president "certainly didn't agree" with decision to postpone Halo E3 reveal Comments by Tom Bramwell

this halo annonucement better be fuking good after all this fannying around

wewillselfdestruct:

"Except where they refer to Halo. Technically that's still supposition."

I've been told it's a Halo product. Bungie is definitely working on something Halo-related from what I've been told. Mattrick also basically confirms it in the interview.

@Mugwum

I stand well and truly corrected. Except I'm sitting down. But you get my meaning.

wewillselfdestruct:

"I stand well and truly corrected. Except I'm sitting down. But you get my meaning."

:)

[i]Mattrick = big fat liar?[/i]

no no - Mattrick = big fat idiot!

Anyway I thought Halo 3 sucked anyway so why the big hoo-ha?

God, I love my Xbox, I've never really given a flying fuck about Halo, but *I* think Mattrick's a thick twat. KILL HIM.

I attended market research sessions for LIPS, and whilst I think the eventual game will very definitely be a laugh, I thought the MR was the most god-awful, asinine, turd-belching, piss-poor, let's-emulate-that-trendy-show-"Friends" bag of shite. Note to Microsoft - Xbox will never be a 16 year old girl's platform. I am glad you met your market half way with the final E3 ad, however silly it was.

But hand on heart I love my 360.

Mattrick, you complete fucking cunt.

>> Microsoft and Bungie fight, Bungie find new home on PS3.........

...PS3 fans instantly reverse opinion on Halo...

BITCH FIIIGHT!

Feeding the media on this whole thing can never be a good thing for Bungie or MS. Yeah Mattrick may have opened his mouth a little to much but trying to get the last word is just as bad and childish. Work the crap out internally not in public opinion.

On the announcement, I actually believe that MS saw that Nintendo and Sony did not have anything worth busting out their big gun for. Why waste a bungie announcement when there was so much negative vibe for Nintendo and Sony showings. Instead, wait for the Christmas buying season and see if you can generate some feel good hype which might net you some extra sells.

For the people wishing for a multiplatform game, unless you consider the PC multiplatform I highly doubt that will happen. Do not forget that MS get first refusal on all Bungie games so if they are the publisher then you can be assured that any game Bungie makes will not see the light of day on the PS3 or Wii. You might see it on a DS but then thats doubtfull as well.

I can't believe most people are agreeing with Bungie on this.

As much of a douche as Mattrick may be, he's doing what ALL of US would've done: keeping our ace in our sleeves. Never show ALL of your cards, especially when your opponents, i.e. Nintendo & Sony, are doing a half-assed E3 to begin with.

Bungie is the one to start all of this shit with the first comment about the dissapointment and crying over not getting the stage. Mattrick tried to clear it up, but Bungie just burned them more. It's BAD business and I would never let Bungie get away with such PUBLIC undermining of Microsoft's authority in Halo and Bungie itself.

Even in the interview Mattrick gives kudos to the industry, and the fact that he is trying to SELL consoles not JUST Halo for Bungie, and that he didn't NEED to announce Halo-related-games from Bungie to increase sales.

Again, most comments here are not really thought-out. Mattrick may be a douche, but he really didn't make a miss-step. Bugine did.

Considering the main focus of the MS event was (according to the interview) games whose release is, if not imminent, then at least on the horizon, and the Halo announcement would, presumably, just have been "Hey, BIG SURPRISE guys! We're making another Halo game at some point, here's some concept art and a video of the MC using a previously unseen melee weapon to stab the camera in the face. Start drooling, fanboys."
Now, on the other hand, Bungee get to show the same concept art, and the same video at the upcoming Halo 4 announcement event, all by themselves, with no other IP to get in the way of their glory.
That sounds like an upgrade to me, while at the same time allowing the E3 bit to focus on games that will actually be out within a reasonable period of time.

zoidberg you twat! Stop taking that sht and gtfo!

Pwnt much?

Seems that Bungie have got a little too used to being Big Man on Campus with MS.

Yes Matrick has been a tosser but they are looking very unprofessional turning it into a public toddler scrap.

@ Zoidberg

The announcement would have pretty much revived a dead E3, something for MS to shout about, something for Bungie to shout about and something for us to hype on forums like devs and pubs know we're gonna, even if we dont intend to.

Right now we're hyping without meaning to, think about it, for all we know this whole little tiff could have been set up by Bungie and MS to keep us all talking about them. While we're thinking about Halo we're not thinking about buying a PS3 and buying shitty Resistance.

Bungie have every right to respond tho, Mattdick is putting words in their mouths, besides what authority? like MS is going to do anything to harm its most sucsessful dev and franchise.

If they tried to make Halo at MGS they'd fuck it up royally, they need Bungie and Bungie need them, it's not like you can really play an FPS game on the other home consoles, they feel nasty for that sort of game.

I bet it's hype, plain and simple, if not then its a very interesting development that MS and Bungie are falling out, especially when Xbox makes money off Bungie and Bungie need the Xbox as a platform, it seems too silly to be true. saying that it is americans we're talking about.