I have alluded to this in thread's before, but it strikes me that for the first time Microsoft will not have a large, decisive shooter out for the Christmas period based on the information available to us.

So far the console's life has looked like this:

-2005: Perfect Dark Zero

-2006: Gears of War

-2007: Halo 3

-2008: Gears of War 2

But in 2009, the only shooter who's existence we are aware of is the Halo 3 expansion ODST.  As great as I'm sure this new single-player campaign will be, it is extremely unlikely to develop the sort of system-selling and promoting hype the other shooters have.

So what, if anything, do you believe Microsoft has planned?

Do you perhaps believe they feel the shooter market is saturated and that they can make do with ODST and multiplatform shooters?

Or do you feel that they have a large shooter planned?  Perhaps a true Perfect Dark sequel?

Perfect Dark 2 seems likely IMO, I think if it isn't released this year then definetly next. Banjo and VIva are great fun but neither got the sales I'm sure Microsoft were hoping for.

I think Rare will steer away from casual cartoon like games and focus on more hardcore, KI, PD2 and maybe Conker (its a more adult orientated game)

I knoe right now as far as shooters go, Huxley.

HUXLEY

it's all that we will need.

granted it's not Microsoft, but its PC/360 only.

Christmas is a long ways away.

Halo ODST is one of the biggest shooters of the year.

A. Its called Halo.

B. Its made by bungie.

C. Its the first new interpretation of the series.

Its already the 2nd biggest shooter of the year behind Call of Duty, perhaps even the biggest and you're not satisfied?

Not as long as new Years :^)

but yeah they have plenty of time to announce something.

          ^^ THIS!

Bioshock 2 will also keep me ocupied, so I'm happy with Microsoft just chugging away at Alan Wake.

Aparently they are also working on a South Park game as well.

It's an expansion of a pre-existing game Squill.

I highly doubt it will sell to people that dont already own Halo 3, which won't do what the previous four mentioned shooters did for the console.

CoD5 will probably be the best selling shooter this year. ODST and CoD5 are enough for 360 owners. That being said, they might announce something.