OBVIOUSLY, not everyone will immediately grab the xbone (i might wait till the games i want come out). But if the xbone isn’t backwards compatible, its going to take away some of the population. Its just weird that there isn’t going to be a halo game by launch.
> OBVIOUSLY, not everyone will immediately grab the xbone (i might wait till the games i want come out). But if the xbone isn’t backwards compatible, its going to take away some of the population. Its just weird that there isn’t going to be a halo game by launch.
Destiny for me. I won’t be picking up an XB1 at launch, may wait another year so any tech problems are sorted out. But when it does come out, I think that there are a lot more interesting games, like Ryse, that a Halo game would be shoved to the back.
Best for 343 to wait a little to release.
I think a lot of people will still be playing it. I intend to have the 360 and Xbox One connected at the same time all the way up to Halo 5/Halo Xbox One’s launch, and I assume 343 will continue to support H4 through to at least the beginning of H5.
I highly doubt that it will get the same support Halo 2 got when the 360 came out.
> OBVIOUSLY, not everyone will immediately grab the xbone (i might wait till the games i want come out). But if the xbone isn’t backwards compatible, its going to take away some of the population. Its just weird that there isn’t going to be a halo game by launch.
I don’t think its weird that theres no Halo game for XBone’s launch. The Xbox 360 had no Halo game at launch, only Halo CE and Halo 2 and they weren’t even for that console. Halo 3 (the console’s first Halo game) didn’t release for the 360 until almost 2 years after it launched.
> I won’t be picking up an XB1 at launch, may wait another year so any tech problems are sorted out.
You read my mind. Thats the exact reason I’m holding off on getting the Xbox 1.
Nothing will happen. The populations will go down a little when it releases but not much. I’ll be getting one once I can walk into a Best Buy and pick one up.
I don’t think we have to worry about a lot of players leaving the Xbox 360 behind until 2014, when Destiny and Halo 5 come out. That’s when I’m getting my Xbox One.
I did read somewhere that there was a plan in place to eventually have xb one be backwards compatible, don’t ask me how they plan on doing it but that what a MS guy said.
> I did read somewhere that there was a plan in place to eventually have xb one be backwards compatible, don’t ask me how they plan on doing it but that what a MS guy said.
Nope. I can confirm that is not true.
> I did read somewhere that there was a plan in place to eventually have xb one be backwards compatible, don’t ask me how they plan on doing it but that what a MS guy said.
I doubt it due to the games being completely incompatible with the X1s systems. However there may end up being a secondary disc drive that can be hooked up to it, like the 360 got. Kinda pointless though because you can just use your 360. In theory you can actually hook up the 360 to the X1, as it has an hdmi in port.
"Xbox One could potentially offer backwards compatibility thanks to the power of the cloud.
That’s according to Xbox’s senior director of product planning and management Albert Penello, who told GameSpot that the Xbox One could offer access to previous-gen games, in a similar manner to the proposed Gaikai service on PS4.
Responding to an enquiry on the matter, Penello said “Yeah, absolutely. That’s one of the things that makes [the cloud] at the same time both totally interesting and hard to describe to people.”
“There are so many things that the servers can do. Using our Azure cloud servers, sometimes it’s things like voice processing. It could be more complicated things like rendering full games like a Gaikai and delivering it to the box. We just have to figure out how, over time, how much does that cost to deliver, how good is the experience.”
Interesting, right? Quite how the service would be delivered, or whether Microsoft will get around to delivering it at all, is yet to be decided, however."
> I don’t think we have to worry about a lot of players leaving the Xbox 360 behind until 2014, when Destiny and Halo 5 come out. That’s when I’m getting my Xbox One.
I agree. Marketing pitch aside, most people purchase games, not consoles.
I bought my Xbox to play Halo CE, my Xbox 360 for Halo 3 and will likely wait for Halo 5 to pick up an Xbox One, although Destiny and Titanfall look interesting.
As far as I know, Halo 4 won’t be on the XB1 due to technical difficulties. Something about the 360 games were meant to run on that specific processor(or some part) and that the XB1 don’t have it.
If you want to keep playing your 360 games, including Halo 4, I’d hang onto the console until someone big in MS goes off and say, “Yeah, you can play your 360 games on the new console.”
As far as I know, I don’t think 343 is interested into making an Xbox 1 copy of Halo 4, as they are already busy making another game for a 2014 release, and stuff for Halo 4.