The xbox 360 has seen the release of Halo 3, Wars, Odst, and reach, with CEA still to come out. Granted 3 of those arnt main games but still should they release halo 4 this gen. That would make 6 games in 1 gen. But that isnt the real problem to me.
Halo 3 had massive amounts of enemies on screen during campaign. there was one battle in huge space with 2 scarabs, a couple wraiths, ghosts, mongueses, ect it was epic. But reach didnt have very many enemies onscreen. It also has framerate problems when 2 many enemies are onscreen. This wasnt a problem for some people but for others it was like me. during many missions, firefight and even multiplayer the framerate droped to almost unplayable levels which was sad. The graphics were very good but not amazing and if 343 trys to push the graphics, AI more than that will likely mean less enemies on screen, and or worse frame rate problems since halo 4 will be running on a modified reach engine. If they put halo 4 on the next console they could push the graphics, AI, and enemy count much further.
What i hope happens is halo 4 gets pushed back to holiday 2013 and gets put on the next xbox which i believe will come out early 2013 or holiday 2013. my second option would be it releasing holiday 2012 as a launch title for nextbox(but i dont think it will come out that early). That would give it more hype and allow 343 to make a game not limited by 2005 tech.
Sales wise i dont think it makes sense to release your biggest game ever on a console that is at the very end of its cycle. also pushing it back to 2013 would allow a break which i dont nesicarilly need but others do. Reach has a metacritic of 91 and 3 has 94. Is 3 better not really people are just starting to get tired of a new release every year.
Anyway what do you guys think
Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)
halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)
x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.
