Despite the temporary name, can Halo Xbox One please please please please please be on PC as well? There’s going to be dedicated servers, which is good for PCs. You can probably get away with controllers only, if you just really don’t want to deal with mouse and keyboard support.
I am as sure that is a bad move on Microsoft/343i if they did such. Even if the Xbox one actually is great and is pretty cool. (Good console and stuff actually.) with how much excrete has been spread over it by the Sonys’ public consumers, Halo is like one of their only moves to get Xbox One up and running.
As nice as it would be… it will not happen.
Just wait until someone cracks it.
I mean it would be nice, but Microsoft wouldn’t want to lose the exclusive title for the Xbox when their trying to use that title to get people to buy the Xbox One.
Halo is a primary mover of hardware.
Halo 5 will move the X-1.
I doubt that MS will bring H5 out of the PC.
I could be wrong however…
I agree MS will probably think like that and make you have to buy the X1 to play H5, I just don’t think they should. I don’t think there’s any saving the Xbox’s reputation at this point, anyway.
The way I see it, MS needs to convince gamers and devs alike to use the Windows 8 platform at least as much as Xbox One needs it. Besides, if you want your total sales numbers to compete with COD, you have to be on more than one platform.
I have heard rumors of halo 3 PC in development ATM.
If halo Xbox one will be for pc, it would most likely be after halo 4.
As much as I’d love a Halo 5 for PC, it would be a Windows 8 Exclusive… so… yeah… No thanks.
And it would also be unlikely because that would drive sales away from the Xbox One.
I doubt it OP. Halo 5 will be a major selling point for the Xbox One. They’ve already made mucho money on Windows 8 and I doubt the game would support anything less.
Even if the game did come for PC, I imagine it would be a long, long time after the console version comes out.
If not a PC release, then how about a demo?
I was irked to have no demo for H3, ODST, and H4 (course I ended up buying H4 on release date regardless).
Anyways, I’d rather have a PC release for all existing Xbox 360 Halo games, which have suffered due to hardware limitations and often feel unfinished (particularly ODST).
Well it Is called:
Halo Xbox One,
what would it be called on the Pc?
Halo Xbox One PC edition?
Honestly, they should Just release Halo 4 on the PC in 2015 with a Halo 4 custom edition to keep the modding community satisfied for another 10+ years
> I have heard rumors of halo 3 PC in development ATM.
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> If halo Xbox one will be for pc, it would most likely be after halo 4.
That rumor has been around for 5 years.
100% Not going to happen.
Xbox / Xbox One + Halo = Money
PC + Halo = Less Money
They are a business and businesses like to make MONEY just like everyone else .
100% No Halo 5 on PC / Xbox One only
Its over a year out.
People are panicking that they will have to spend $500 to get Halo.
That is exactly why Microsoft will make sure you have to spend $500 to get Halo.
More power to them.
PC gaming is growing. It has been growing for a while. Particularly Steam. A lot of people have switched from being a console gamer to being a PC gamer. PC and the Steam platform have become so important that genres that are console genres are moving to PC, ie Skullgirls and King of Fighters. A lot of the console audience has left, leaving a lot of games to move to Steam or die. Like Awesomenauts.
343 can ignore PC at their peril. Steam/PC is the most important, most powerful platform right now. They will be ignoring a huge audience if they don’t do a PC release.
They’ll be losing money on every console sold anyway, right? The important thing is software sales, that’s where they make their money.
> 343 can ignore PC at their peril. Steam/PC is the most important, most powerful platform right now. They will be ignoring a huge audience if they don’t do a PC release.
Halo 2 Vista’s population died out and the servers got shut down.
Halo PC is slowly dying out with only about 120 servers occupied daily with 16 to 2 players each.
Steam is successful because of their dirt cheap prices for games. PC might be the most powerful platform but that doesn’t mean it’s the most enjoyable let alone the most affordable. Not everyone is going to go out and buy a maxed out gaming PC just to play a few games. Why bother when you could pick up a $400-500 console and get similar experiences.
They’ll be segregating an even bigger audience if they do release a PC version of Halo 5. You’ll have the population split between PC and Xbox One.
> They’ll be segregating an even bigger audience if they do release a PC version of Halo 5. You’ll have the population split between PC and Xbox One.
Dude the population is already split, also why would having a PC version and a Xbox version released at the same time, or at different times bad. All the PC community asks is more PC games/ports, that aren’t -Yoink- “We need to sell our no OS that sucks” games, with locked up map creation kits like Halo 2 was.
Also you’d be amazed on how cheap you can buy and/or build your self a computer that can run most games these days. Hell my laptop which is worth $100 can run games from 6 years ago with very little issue.
People won’t buy a One if the option is available somewhere else. That’s why I think MS is overconfident about Titanfall because more people will flock to the PC version, especially if the One flops in sales. Plus whatever time it takes to create a port is time 343 could spend fully baking Halo 5 on the One. (After Halo 4’s initial wave of glitches and issues, they REALLY need to focus on a single platform after that.)
> PC gaming is growing. It has been growing for a while. Particularly Steam. A lot of people have switched from being a console gamer to being a PC gamer. PC and the Steam platform have become so important that genres that are console genres are moving to PC, ie Skullgirls and King of Fighters. A lot of the console audience has left, leaving a lot of games to move to Steam or die. Like Awesomenauts.
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> 343 can ignore PC at their peril. Steam/PC is the most important, most powerful platform right now. They will be ignoring a huge audience if they don’t do a PC release.
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> They’ll be losing money on every console sold anyway, right? The important thing is software sales, that’s where they make their money.
Actually, console gaming is growing. PC gaming has always been here the whole time and the sixth gen helped push consoles as the leading market for gaming. Take a look at games like BF3, CoD, Splinter Cell, Crysis. These games on both the 360 and PS3 greatly outweigh their PC versions. (Call of Duty especially, since the 360 versions have always led sales.)
> Despite the temporary name, can Halo Xbox One please please please please please be on PC as well? There’s going to be dedicated servers, which is good for PCs. You can probably get away with controllers only, if you just really don’t want to deal with mouse and keyboard support.
If it came out for pc then I would have no reason to buy an Xbox One. If it is to much like Halo 4 then I still won’t have a reason!
> I am as sure that is a bad move on Microsoft/343i if they did such. Even if the Xbox one actually is great and is pretty cool. (Good console and stuff actually.) with how much excrete has been spread over it by the Sonys’ public consumers, Halo is like one of their only moves to get Xbox One up and running.
Except Halo 5 is going to be a year or more after the release of the Xbone.
All in all, I think keeping Halo a Xbox exclusive isn’t going to drive console sales. We are a long way from the heyday of the killer app. Halo 3 didn’t convince anyone to buy a 360 who wasn’t already going to get one. Halo 5 is not going to convince anyone to buy an Xbox One who hasn’t already decided to get one. Consoles are expensive. Most people don’t have the cash to buy a PS4, Wii U, and an Xbox.
PCs, on the other hand, are ubiquitous. People who only own a single platform still usually have a PC. If the graphical requirements were manageable, releasing the game for Windows would greatly increase the number of possible players for Halo 5. If Microsoft is hellbent on keeping Halo exclusive (although Windows is still their damn system anyway), they really should have pushed for it to be a launch title. If I were to get an Xbox One simply to play Halo 5, I have well more than 12 months from today to purchase the console and still be able to play Halo 5 on the day it is released. There is ZERO reason to be an early adopter for the Xbone. It’s faulty logic to try to use a game that’s coming out a year after the console launch to drive early console sales.