Microsoft Corporation’s Upcoming Halo 5: Guardians Raises Expectations
Microsoft expects the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians to have a much better and bug-free launch unlike the previous Halo: The Master Chief Collection on the Xbox One
Halo: The Master Chief Collection was the franchise’s first entry on Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox One. While it was great to play through the franchise's previous titles, Halo: MCC did not have such a smooth launch. Gamers were left disappointed with bugs especially related to the online multiplayer game.
According to Cinema Blend, Microsoft's upcoming Halo 5: Guardians is expected to have a much better and bug-free launch. While speaking to Xbox Achievements, Halo’s Franchise Development Director, Frank O’Connor stated, “Halo: The Master Chief Collection is definitely a black eye for us. We’re not going to rest on our laurels or hide from the mistakes we made.
However, I will say that the nature of The Master Chief Collection - you’ve got five different game engines, you’ve got five different studios working on it, you’ve got 343 working on putting it all together - the footprint and complexity was outrageous.”
How will Halo 5: Guardians be different from The Master Chief Collection? O’Connor adds, “Halo 5 is being made by a completely different team. It’s a singular product. It was built from the ground up for this new technology, rather than being sort of dragged, kicking and screaming from 2001 and forced and shoehorned into a 2014 console. So the problem spaces are still very challenging but they’re radically different. I think the beta is already a decent first step, in a retail environment, showing that we don’t have the same problems.”
Halo: MCC’s multiplayer bugs were attempted to be fixed by various patches but they have not been completely eliminated. Microsoft may have run out of bug spray for Halo: MCC, but fortunately it has enough to spray on Halo 5: Guardians before it releases on October 27, 2015.
Thankfully, a multiplayer beta for Halo 5: Guardians between December and January by 343 Industries has given them enough information, since a second beta is not on the agenda yet. Halo is Microsoft’s biggest cash cow and it has perhaps kept the Xbox brand alive, since the first Xbox released over a decade ago.
It is understandable that to take two generations worth of games and adapt it to the latest console may not be an easy task. However, there should still not be any excuse for mistakes on Halo: MCC. At least, Microsoft has admitted that it was a ‘black eye’ for them and they expect Halo 5: Guardians to do a lot better.
According to a report by Gamespot, Microsoft plans to kick off the first proper new Halo title on the Xbox One, by releasing a limited edition, Halo 5-themed console. 343 Industries Studio Head, Josh Holmes, revealed on popular social media platform Twitter, that a Halo 5 edition of the Xbox One is in the process.
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