Halo Is Still 343 Industries’ Property, But Other Studios Could Make Halo Games In The Future
Xbox Games Studio head Matt Booty has clarified the status of Halo after a few months of speculation.
As reported by Video Games Chronicle, Matt explained that 343 Industries is still in charge of the Halo franchise as a whole. Their leadership at Microsoft and even Xbox Game Studios is going to continue to give them independence to decide on where to take that franchise moving forward.
Matt then revealed that other studios could make Halo games in the future. When Matt was asked if that meant, for example, if Call of Duty studios like Infinity Ward could make a Halo game, this is what he had to say:
“If something like that were to happen, it would have to come from the studios. It’s unlikely that we would come in and dictate that from the top.”
It’s interesting in light of what we have heard about Halo from insiders for months, but also from what we now know about Microsoft Game Studios and Xbox themselves.
As we had reported earlier this year, 343 Industries had to address rumors of issues within the studio, by reaffirming that they continue to be the main studio for the Halo franchise. It is a matter of public knowledge that several veterans in the studio have left within the past few months following Halo Infinite’s release.
Much of the speculation has surrounded what is mainly bad management within the company, leading to missed goals and unsatisfactory content in the case of Halo Infinite.
However, we now know there is another layer of mismanagement that happens under Xbox, which occurs because they give their studios too much freedom.
In the case of Redfall, thanks to an insider report, we now know that Arkane Austin’s own developers hoped that Microsoft would intervene and cancel the game that their lead studio
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