| EspadaGrim said: I hate that MS is heavily relying on Unreal, why not just switch it to the IW Engine instead? You can literally just take Beenox or whoever to co-develop even Certain Affinity have experience using the that engine. |
If we assume that IW Engine is suitable for Halo...The simple matter is that it wouldn't even be considered because Microsoft doesn't own ABK...Until they do, they can't even begin to consider using IW Engine...Nothing is certain in business, such as the ABK acquisition closing, 343 can't sit around doing nothing for months hoping that the deal closes so they can begin looking at IW Engine (and ABK wouldn't allow them to use it until they're owned by Microsoft) because ABK doesn't outsource its engine and they wouldn't on an assumption that "the deal will close anyway" because again you take nothing for certain in business, the deal might not close and then ABK has just handed over its engine to a rival.
So basically, they simply can't even consider using IW Engine at this moment in time. They've have to wait until ABK closes before they even talk about using the engine and looking into it.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 31 January 2023
