Xbox Is "Unlikely" To Put Another Studio On Halo
Halo, Xbox's flagship series for pretty much its entire run, has hit rocky and unfamiliar terrain during this latest generation of console. Halo Infinite was not the hit Xbox expected it to be, proving Halo isn't always a sure thing. However, it remains unlikely Microsoft will turn to another studio, of which there are many under its growing umbrella, and ask them to take the Halo reigns.
That comes straight from the horse's mouth as Microsoft's game studio chief Matt Booty told Axios he and the team would be unlikely to hand Halo duties to a different studio. Booty was specifically asked if an Activision studio might help out with Halo should the acquisition eventually be allowed to go through, a valid question when you consider the ongoing success of Call of Duty and the multiple studios under the Activision banner that make that happen.
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“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,” Booty explained. 343 Industries continues to work on Halo, but there have been wholesale changes at the studio after Infinite fell short of expectations.
There were a lot of layoffs at 343 earlier this year. Even though it's unlikely a new studio unfamiliar with Halo will wade in and help out, Booty does admit the team at 343 taking Halo forward isn't the one that got it to this point. “I feel confident in the leadership team, but the team that got us here is probably not the same team that's going to take us forward,” Booty said, adding even though cuts were a product of everything going on across the Xbox landscape, the smaller team now in place at
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