Now I’m sure everyone is aware that Halo 5: Guardians™ is only coming to Xbox One™. In my opinion it should be coming to both of these consoles, I don’t own a one and its too expensive at the moment to go and buy one. I understand that Halo 5 has alot of performance enhancements in it the 360 can’t handle, but why not try to fix that for the people who don’t own an Xbox One and would like to continue to see the forerunner saga play out.
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Halo 4 pushed the 360 to its limits. Halo 5 would break it.
I mean, if you like playing games on Slideshow FPS and 144p and maybe even graphics as good as the N64, then I am sure 343i will port the game right for you.
Because the 360 is outdated and obsolete hardware, to put it simply. Basically, H5 isn’t coming to the 360 for the same reasons Halo 3 didn’t come to the original Xbox.
Edit Also, I’d like to say that posting your email in public like that is typically a bad idea. I’d edit that out of your post if I were you (And no, 343i’s not going to respond to this here. Your best odds of receiving a response is tossing them a message on their Twitter or something)
Unless you want to switch discs every half a mission and have the game come with 12 discs, or take so much out of the original game sonit can run on the 360 that it barely plays like the same game as on the One, then no. The act of 343i stripping down everything they’ve worked on to make Halo 5 run halfway decently on the 360 would bring down the quality of the One version too.
So, abaolutely not. Halo 5 can not be on the 360, for many reasons. The 360 literally couldn’t handle it, and it wouldn’t be nearly worth it to scale it down and take out everything 343i has worked for 3 years on to make it work.
Nobody wants to shell out $400 to play a game, but sorry, you’re going to have to do it just like the rest of us. The Xbox One isn’t such a bad console nowadays anyway.
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> Nobody wants to shell out $400 to play a game, but sorry, you’re going to have to do it just like the rest of us. The Xbox One isn’t such a bad console nowadays anyway.
This but if you want to continue playing Halo unfortunately you will have to buy and Xbox One the 360 is just no longer a capable machine for games of this gen. If you only play Halo perhaps you would be best to wait until the end of gen then buy the game and console for dirt cheap. If you like other games on Xbox though the purchase may be worth it. If not enough games interest you however maybe you should look to other forms of entertainment perhaps the PS4 has more games that you like?
If you have 360 games keep them because from November you will have backwards compatibility for a lot of 360 games anyway with more to be added in the future. If you really want an Xbox One I am sure you can find things to sell to make up the money for one. You could start buy selling your 360 then just find things lying around the house that no longer get used and sell them eventually you will start progressing towards having enough extra cash for the purchase of a new Xbox One, also the prices keep coming down and with christmas coming up I am sure there will be many great deals.
360 is outdated man, just get a job (if you don’t have one already) and you can buy a xbox one and halo 5 in like a month or so 
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Why do you think it should be on 360? Simply because you can’t get an Xbox One yet? It’s been two years, they can’t support the 360 forever. Also this is MS flagship title. They are obviously going to use it to push sales of their newest console.
Did if you think Halo 3 should have also been on the original Xbox?
People need to learn that the Xbox One and 360 are completely different consoles. We’re talking about computers, one made in 2005 and another in 2013. Even the Xbox One is outdated by now, the way technology is improved upon so fast. The Xbox One can barely run Halo 5, let alone on the 360, where it is old, outdated, and using way less specs than the One.
Don’t worry I’ve had this question too. Though I realise that getting an Xbox One is inevitable now as more and more games become exclusive to the next gen consoles.
Besides, I was kinda holding on until they released the Halo 5 console. Going to reserve it when i get paid!
Why do people still think they can play Halo 5 and other current-gen games on previous-gen consoles? Save your money and buy an Xbox One or be done with Halo and almost every other franchise continuing into the current generation of consoles. It will have been two years since the PS4 and One launched come fall, soon a lot of games won’t be coming to the 360 and PS3. It’s time to start saving for that upgrade
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It has been nearly 2 years since the Xbox One launched. It’s time to put all their focus on the that. At this point any games also being shipped on 360 are severely dumbed down performance wise. They also hold back the development of the X1 version of the game. Company’s would have to have two teams working on basically two different products instead of solely focusing their attention on one. The 360 is great, and right now it is still my favorite console(the new consoles haven’t been out long enough to judge) of all time but it has had its time.
Making a game for a last gen console as well as a current gen console or PC requires the developer to scale down the game in terms of framerate and graphics so that it can run smoothly on the last gen console. Microsoft wants to prove that the Xbox One isn’t a useless pile of -Yoink-, so they’re making 343 to make Halo 5 60fps with purty graphics. What is seen in the Sanghellios gameplay capture can not be ported to the Xbox 360 in any way unless you tone the level of detail in the environment down and reduce the framerate.
We cant have full 1080p, we cant do splitscreen, we have a new visual palette, and you wonder why the game cant play on a console that came out 8 years ago?
The 360 is ancient hardware. It’s a DECADE old, so in practically terms it’s a TI-83 calculator compared to modern equipment. 343 would have to figuratively gut every aspect of Halo 5 in order for it to run on the 360…resolution, size of environments, numbers of enemies, lighting systems, AI, etc.
It literally wouldn’t be the same game.
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> Halo 4 pushed the 360 to its limits. Halo 5 would break it.
Heck, Halo 5 nearly breaks the Xbox One. They had to strip the game of features and play it in the equivalent of “safe mode” to get it to run on the One. The One is a severely disappointing system if we have already hit its limits only a couple years after launch.