Microsoft announced today that the next installment in the Halo “trilogy” Halo 4 will be released on November the 6th of this year. The release day manages to miss some of the holiday seasons biggest games, Borderlands 2, Bioshock Infinite, Assassin’s Creed 3, and Medal of Honor: Warfighter. The date is also on the same day as the US presidential election, meaning that the voting turnout will be a lot less than usual.
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It will be interesting to see how the handle the fact that Activision is their biggest partner, yet also their biggest competitor.
Halo 4 will be the biggest event in gaming this year.
Black Ops 2 will be come out a week or two later and do incredible numbers as well.
These are two games that can co-exist..
It is finally time for Halo to get some holiday dollars. November is going to be crazy.
The biggest wiiner was Ubisoft finally figuring out that coming AFTER COD every year with Assasin's creed was idiotic and probably cost them millions.
Evil
LMFAOOOOO! Funniest thing I've read in ages. Touche, sir, touche!
Halo 4 looking to take down CoD this holiday season!? Sign me up for a Halo 4 preorder!
I imagine that since they're launching on November 6, Activision won't be launching Black Ops 2 on the same day -- it's bad for both companies.
Straight from the article:
"For the last few years, Call Of Duty has always released the first Tuesday in November. This year it looks like it will be Master Chief VS Unnamed AK holder."
No... CoD since W@W has released on the SECOND Tuesday of the month... not the first like the terrible "journalist" says. Do some fucking research before posting shit articles, "Dan Hobbs, Idiot extraordinaire."
Activision can easily release early Sept or push back their usual Nov launch for early Dec, either way it won't matter much even if they launched the same month, although they might have a small impact on one or the others initial sales ultimately the next COD will sell like hotcakes and so will Halo4.
And they had to have two or three teams on MW3 just to get it ready for November 2011. I don't think they'd want to mess with their schedule, especially if it interferes with Elite and MW3's DLC schedule.
"Activision can easily release early Sept or push back their usual Nov launch for early Dec"
lol, you're saying it like AV's CoD is actually threaten by MS's Halo! if any of the two would have to change/alter their release date, it's MS, not AV! Halo is huge, no question about it, but compared to CoD? c'mon we know who's bigger!
Metal of Honor October
Halo 4 the 6th of November
Black Ops 2 will probably launch the 13th but may even push to the 20th and still make Black Friday.
Evil
I think someone did a demographics on it and found that most Xbox 360 players were democrats. Anyone have a link to that study? ha
People say it's the same game ever year, and really, the core gameplay is the same. But the fans buy it because of the updated Multiplayer (c'mon, MW3 did redo the killstreaks, added some new modes, etc.), Zombie/Spec Ops, and Campaign, etc.
Time for the disagrees :).
WHAT?? "MW3 did redo the killstreaks, added some new modes", and you consider that enough to buy it every year? You can do that shit with a title update.
We all know COD is a solid game, it's the fact that it's so disposable that it breaks within an year, so they just bring out the cow and release another one instead of supporting the older games. Fans buy it because they're stupid, and they have no choice.
The gaming industry isn't the only industry that works like this. Movie studios constantly change release dates based on competition in the same genre.
The Halo franchise is only 2 behind
Halo 1,2,3,odst, reach, ce anniversary
Hopefully i'll have both Halo 7 and cod 9 day 1
Halo Reach
Halo 1
Halo 2
Halo 3/ODST( sametime line)
Halo CE Ann (just a reboot w/ better graphics)
Halo 4 ( is truly 4 in the series)
Halo is also 2 years older, spans a hardware generation and with the exception of ODST has given a real technical Leap/jump/hop between games.
Aarix's comment wasn't necessary, but yours simply splits hairs for the sake of it. No one should care how many games in a franchise there are, it has got to be the dumbest argument against something. You either want to play it or you don't.
The only halos that were made and marketed as direct sequels were, halo 2,3, reach and now 4. And that's over a span of 10 freakin years!! While COD has been replaced 6 times in 6 years (including blackops 2) with barely any improvements. I don't know how much clearer it has to be.....
at least activision havent released EXACTLY the same game with better graphix Halo CE im looking at you!
Cheers Jimbob
Ravener i dont care how many halos or cods come out i like both franchises and as i said "Hopefully i'll have both day 1"
i was just letting aarix know its not just cod that rehash games theres quite a few games companies at it
The CoD community more or less doesn't care about Halo.
Activision would be smart to go M.I.A for a year and refresh the franchise on the next wave of consoles in 2013.
edit; I know anniversary came out in Nov., but that's not really a new release as it was a HD remake.
Halo and COD are vastly different games and are geared at vastly different types of gamers. I think people don't understand how rabid Halo fans can be and how much people want to play as Master Chief again.
I'll be picking up both, so problem solved. I don't see this as an issue at all. Halo 4 is already topping the pre-order charts and Microsoft hasn't even started with the multi-million dollar ad campaign.
One is more realistic and one is space marines. I like the fact that Microsoft is going up against COD. I'll be buying both, but I like that Microsoft is doing what so many other companies are afraid to do, even EA with their Battlefield 3 game.
Halo isn't a small franchise and the return of the Chief cant be underestimated. This game is going to do crazy good and will probably end up outselling BO2 on the Xbox 360.
..but then it started getting compared to other FPSs that had those - so the withdrew the innovation, further pidgenholing the franchise as a twitch 'arcade' shooter.
As for them launching so close to CoD. The hardcore fans will line up as usual for Halo and the part timers will be in line waiting for CoD.
MS has a strong partnership with Activision so it does seem odd creating this conflict...
No shooter is going to want to release within the weeks following Call of Dutys' release.
How are you saying COD "helped" out halo when most people dont give a shit about perks and load outs and would've bought the game anyway.
And you think COD just invented those things when it came out? All it did was take elemets from RPGs and implement them into multiplayer. I'm not hating on COD4 but techinically then without world of warcraft, COD would be stuck in WW2...
halo 2 came out in nov. im guessing that was a bad choice for microsoft as well?
GTFO.
So while some people who can only afford one game will have to skip or wait with one, other people who were on their way to pick up just one game might end up with 2.
All of this is assuming that the games actually release on the same day. My guess... they won't.
Its release date is on the day of the US presidential election. No problem there because there is no one to vote for. Except I will vote for Master Chief during this US Presidential Election! :)
Trying to pass it off as a real article.