Should Halo 4 be made on the next-box instead of 360

[Joelcool7]

Seece said:

Joelcool7 said:

yo_john117 said:
NO! I want Halo 4 on the 360 so I can play next year.

Halo games don't get delayed BTW.

Hey no smiley face or indication you are actually joking. Halo titles have been delayed several times especially prior to an official release date. Can't delay a game that has no release date, 343 could give a very good excuse for the game to come in 2013 without delaying anything officially.

P.S your forgetting that Halo 3 was promised by Bill Gates for the launch date of the PS3 November 11th 2006. The date was not met and the final product arrived on shelves September 25, 2007. They missed the launch date by almost an entire year, if you don't consider that a delay I don't know what you would.

No you're wrong, Halo games are never delayed, you're talking rubbish, they launched Halo 2 exactly 3 years after Halo 1, they wernt going to launch Halo 3 only a year later (not only would they not, but it wouldn't be possible, since then they've always met their september date. So ... yeah yojohn is right.

Depends on what you call delayed, because I am pretty sure the dictionary definition of delay is  "to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared." To miss a deadline and reschedule the release of a product is a delay. I'm not sure what you define as a delay but the definition definatly applies. "The developer delayed the game until development could be completed" matches the example found on Dictionary.com perfectly.

Your absolutely right it was impossible for Bungie to meet the launch date which Bill Gates had promised. Bungie was working on a spin-off franchise to Halo at the time and hadn't even begun development on Halo3. But Bill Gates set a release date which was confirmed in Microsoft's Official X-Box Magazine at the time and by several other sources both officially at Microsoft and media related.

Nintendo's Iwata said several games would release within the launch window of Wii. Reggie confirmed 7 would be availible launch day with more first party software to launch within the launch window. Several titles titles like Mario Galaxy were supposed to arrive within the launch window and didn't.

Would you say that those titles weren't delayed? Or how about LoZ:TP which was scheduled for release in 2005 and didn't everyone called that a delay but its not like Nintendo delayed development. Nintendo was incapable of meeting the promised release date delaying its release to a later date.

Titles that have announced launch windows are often refered to as delayed if they miss their launch window (Example Q1, 2012) if the title comes in 2013 people will have considered it a delay. Let alone a title that actually recieved an exact release date and missed it. Delaying a game is almost always done because the development team is unable to produce the game within the time frame provided. Games that are released at launch day but aren't completely developed get bad reviews and low sales.

So yes no matter how you look at it Halo 3's release was delayed due to Bungie's inability to provide the product within the time constraints Bill Gates had provided to consumers. Halo 2 was scheduled for a release window (No actual date given) but it too missed its initial launch window meaning it too to a lesser extent was delayed.

In fact delaying a game to polish it for example is a great game, there is no reason to view delays as a bad thing. I don't know why you'd get so defensive over the fact that a quality game took a little longer then promised!