What are Microsoft doing to Halo?

[SHMUPGurus]

Kantor said:
I am objecting to the fact that they are releasing an expansion and two games in the same year.

Also, @SHMUPGurus, those are from three different series and two different developers. I mean, I would have no objection if they were timing this right, but two new games and an expansion being released at the same time just seems over the top.

And these are all spin-offs. None of them feature Master Chief, without whom Halo is really nothing, making them truly entirely different games with the magical four letters added on.

So here we are: Halo without Bungie, without Master Chief, without run and gun action.

Two different spin offs to Halo in 2 different genres.

I guess Metal Gear kind of did this with Metal Gear Acid, but I found that pretty annoying too, especially since it was such a failure.

Note: I am partly annoyed because Sony has yet to announce anything important at TGS. Well, the main conference hasn't happened yet, so hopefully something will turn up to counter all of these "Microsoft has won TGS" arguments

What do you mean at the same time? You mean this generation? The expansion isn't coming 'till next year, and Halo Wars is coming this Holiday season. That makes 1 Halo game a year, what's wrong with that? And what's with Bungie not making Halo Chronicles and Halo Wars? Take Nintendo for example: Intelligent Systems made the Paper Mario series. Nintendo EAD 4 (Miyamoto's team) make the ''real'' Mario games. AlphaDream make the Mario & Luigi games, etc. It's called ''spreading the franchise.'' Still nothing wrong with that.

And about the different genres and different characters, as far as I know, Resistance: Retribution is a 3rd person shooter with another main character, and Resistance on PS3 is a first person shooter with Nathan Hale. Difference much? And what about Killzone: Liberation? A tactical 3rd person action game with no relation to the main story whatsoever (just assuming here since I haven't played the game, but it's kind of obvious)? Don't play that card man.