Good job 343. It’s like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders lol. This news has made me more happier than I was seeing that demo last month. Making a decision like this 2-3 months before launch means that this delay like some have been saying isn’t just for 3-4 months. Q1 2021 is out the picture. Late Q2(April -June) 2021 is the earliest but June is E3 and they’ll definitely use that platform to showcase what the game should’ve looked like last month. With this announcement, they’ve taken the pressure off themselves while gaining positive feedback from the community for making such a difficult but needed decision. Q3(July-September) 2021 is most definitely when we can expect Infinite to release and that makes sense because that’s a whole extra year to get this game polished. So now we can rest assured that we are going to get the game we need. Hopefully we get a flight of some sort or some content every couple months to keep us out of these content droughts we’ve become too familiar with the past years and recent months. If not we’ll probably have to wait until E3 to get the reveal we should’ve gotten last month.
Really glad they made this decision. Take all the time 343i. You’ve earned my respect.
All these dates are just speculation btw
I doubt they’ll drop anymore content after this. Its going to be drought city until they have polished the hell out of the game. No chance in having the community flip out and delay the game another 6 months. We will probably keep getting the music drops and that’s it for a while.
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> I doubt they’ll drop anymore content after this. Its going to be drought city until they have polished the hell out of the game. No chance in having the community flip out and delay the game another 6 months. We will probably keep getting the music drops and that’s it for a while.
Yeah, we’ll see. If we don’t get anything until spring next year or E3, that’s fine. At least now I can rest assured and not lose sleep over whether or not 343i cares about the community and whether or not they are doing everything they can to release a polished game.
Sources? For all we know, Infinite could release next March.
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> Sources? For all we know, Infinite could release next March.
It could. I’m just making speculation. Sorry, if it made it seem like this was sourced from somewhere. I’ll edit it to make sure there’s no confusion.
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> Sources? For all we know, Infinite could release next March.
Or December 2021. Or even after that. It is for the best games do not announce their release dates until they know they are basically done.
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> Or December 2021. Or even after that. It is for the best games do not announce their release dates until they know they are basically done.
Yeah, like Th3 n00banater _lol_ said. I’d rather they don’t say anything until the game is ready. 343i should just go into hiding, with no presence on the web, besides the usual community updates and spotlight and what have you. Other than that, the next time we should hear from them is when the game is going Gold or a beta/flight is coming. In my opinion, I don’t want to hear anything from 343i until E3 next year or if a flight is coming. Take a whole year if needed. That’s how bad I want this game to be good.
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Agreed, the benefit/cost determination is very lopsided in favor of it being the right decision to delay. It’ll obviously be beneficial: more polish and development, including especially raytracing. And it won’t be costly: (a) holidays–compounded by Covid–are a known sales booster, (b) Halo will no longer compete for consumer dollars against COD, AC: Valhalla, and Cyberpunk, and (c) Xbox has been clearly and purposefully converting into an ecosystem–not a console–and ecosystems value access more and flagship titles less. Game Pass has 10,000,000 subscribers after just 3 years and Xcloud/Azure is publicly launching soon.
Microsoft has been actively responding to the fact that the number of gamers reachable by a multiple point-of-entry ecosystem is far greater than the number of households purchasing one of two specific pieces of hardware. They have the infrastructure that Sony can’t compete with, and they have the platform development experience that Google can’t compete with. This is the right call and a symptom of the growth of Xbox.
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> Agreed, the benefit/cost determination is very lopsided in favor of it being the right decision to delay. It’ll obviously be beneficial: more polish and development, including especially raytracing. And it won’t be costly: (a) holidays–compounded by Covid–are a known sales booster, (b) Halo will no longer compete for consumer dollars against COD, AC: Valhalla, and Cyberpunk, and (c) Xbox has been clearly and purposefully converting into an ecosystem–not a console–and ecosystems value access more and flagship titles less. Game Pass has 10,000,000 subscribers after just 3 years and Xcloud/Azure is publicly launching soon.
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> Microsoft has been actively responding to the fact that the number of gamers reachable by a multiple point-of-entry ecosystem is far greater than the number of households purchasing one of two specific pieces of hardware. They have the infrastructure that Sony can’t compete with, and they have the platform development experience that Google can’t compete with. This is the right call and a symptom of the growth of Xbox.
Agreed. I think Microsoft in the long-term knows what their doing and know this decision will impact Xbox/Halo for the better in the long run. At the end of the day, when Halo does come out, sales will boom without backlash leading to newer players being drawn to the game rather than rushing the release this holiday season with the Series X and getting backlash which would ruin their 10 year plan they are trying to put forward for Halo.
Good job? They didn’t meet deadlines. They didn’t meet expectations. They let down all the companies partnering with them to sell merchandise. They had 5 years and massive funds to do this thing and didn’t get it right. They said Covid wouldn’t delay them. They showed the game they had. Massive backlash ensued and now delayed because Covid. They made the only decision they could at that point. It’s the right one because they can’t afford another MCC launch or Half baked featureless launch like Halo 5. The expectations were high and they didn’t deliver and now with this extra time they will be even higher. If they can’t blow our minds now they are going to lose more die hard fans like me. A lot of my halo friends abandoned ship after MCC and never came back. Get your crap together 343.
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> Good job? They didn’t meet deadlines. They didn’t meet expectations. They let down all the companies partnering with them to sell merchandise. They had 5 years and massive funds to do this thing and didn’t get it right. They said Covid wouldn’t delay them. They showed the game they had. Massive backlash ensued and now delayed because Covid. They made the only decision they could at that point. It’s the right one because they can’t afford another MCC launch or Half baked featureless launch like Halo 5. The expectations were high and they didn’t deliver and now with this extra time they will be even higher. If they can’t blow our minds now they are going to lose more die hard fans like me. A lot of my halo friends abandoned ship after MCC and never came back. Get your crap together 343.
Good job as in choosing integrity, accountability and honor over money(as greedy capitalist driven companies/publishers do EA) at the expense of their employees’ health and a subpar game. Don’t only think about yourself sweetheart.
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> I doubt they’ll drop anymore content after this. Its going to be drought city until they have polished the hell out of the game. No chance in having the community flip out and delay the game another 6 months. We will probably keep getting the music drops and that’s it for a while.
But talk about that music. It’s been wonderful and a blessing to listen to so far. God knew what he was doing when he blessed human beings with ears to hear.
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> > Good job? They didn’t meet deadlines. They didn’t meet expectations. They let down all the companies partnering with them to sell merchandise. They had 5 years and massive funds to do this thing and didn’t get it right. They said Covid wouldn’t delay them. They showed the game they had. Massive backlash ensued and now delayed because Covid. They made the only decision they could at that point. It’s the right one because they can’t afford another MCC launch or Half baked featureless launch like Halo 5. The expectations were high and they didn’t deliver and now with this extra time they will be even higher. If they can’t blow our minds now they are going to lose more die hard fans like me. A lot of my halo friends abandoned ship after MCC and never came back. Get your crap together 343.
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> Good job as in choosing integrity, accountability and honor over money(as greedy capitalist driven companies/publishers do EA) at the expense of their employees’ health and a subpar game. Don’t only think about yourself sweetheart.
Did they really though? Because it would seem that what they actually did was flop around for 5 years, revealing almost nothing until just recently, assure everyone that the -Yoink- ongoing events were not effecting development, which they might’ve been, and probably were but we don’t know, and then they use it as a cop-out when the loudest and whiniest portion of the fan base doesn’t like a grass texture or something, so they delay the game into what will probably now be over a year from this announcement. They cancelled the beta, which is IMO paramount to even a mildly successful Halo at this point. They haven’t been open or honest with much of anything about this game, which I can understand in some ways because they wouldn’t shut up about Halo 5 leading up to its release and that didn’t go their way either. I understand if all of this nonsense slowed them down, but they waited until cop-out time to claim that it slowed them down. That doesn’t add up. I think what we saw was what was going to be delivered. I was fine with it. Lots of others weren’t. So now it’s “Covid did it.” Granted, if they would just be honest and say “we don’t want to be EA,” then I would appreciate it more but it doesn’t seem to be working that way.
I am just glad that both 343 Industries and Microsoft are making a right decision to delay Halo Infinite to 2021. I also like that they are going in a similar direction like how Paramount Pictures and Sega did with the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. They listen to the feedback from Sonic fans. And, they delay the movie to fix the look of Sonic the Hedgehog. Looking at the way both 343 Industries and Microsoft are doing with the upcoming Halo Infinite, they are going in the Sonic the Hedgehog route where they will listen to the feedback from Halo fans. And, they delay Halo Infinite to fix the graphics in the game. Overall, I am very happy that the people at 343 Industries finally have a lot of time to finish doing the animations, visual effects and gameplay in Halo Infinite.
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> > Good job? They didn’t meet deadlines. They didn’t meet expectations. They let down all the companies partnering with them to sell merchandise. They had 5 years and massive funds to do this thing and didn’t get it right. They said Covid wouldn’t delay them. They showed the game they had. Massive backlash ensued and now delayed because Covid. They made the only decision they could at that point. It’s the right one because they can’t afford another MCC launch or Half baked featureless launch like Halo 5. The expectations were high and they didn’t deliver and now with this extra time they will be even higher. If they can’t blow our minds now they are going to lose more die hard fans like me. A lot of my halo friends abandoned ship after MCC and never came back. Get your crap together 343.
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> Good job as in choosing integrity, accountability and honor over money(as greedy capitalist driven companies/publishers do EA) at the expense of their employees’ health and a subpar game. Don’t only think about yourself sweetheart.
Its part of a multi-billion dollar company lol. Everything they do is weighted as a financial risk/reward and this includes delaying a game in fear of backlash and poor financial reception, which directly translates to loss of profits. You’re naive if you think honor and integrity is the reasoning behind the decisions of managing a billion dollar franchise lmfao
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> It could. I’m just making speculation. Sorry, if it made it seem like this was sourced from somewhere. I’ll edit it to make sure there’s no confusion.
No worries, we are all speculating 
. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was pushed back and released in March of 2017.
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> Or December 2021. Or even after that. It is for the best games do not announce their release dates until they know they are basically done.
Agreed, though here’s to hoping 343 is a bit more transparent now that Infinite has been delayed.