Bungie Was Not Angry About Microsoft's Decision
Published by wes213 on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Tagged: Xbox 360,
With a few reports floating around that the Bungie team was mad about MS pulling Halo from the line up at E3 Don Mattrick decided to come out and put an end to the rumors (in an interview with eurogamer) and let the fans know he backs MS decision to wait and with MS giving Halo its own event i guess you can see why the decision wouldn't bother them.
Don Mattrick has denied that Bungie was angry about Microsoft's decision to pull the developer's new Halo game from the Xbox 360 E3 press conference.
"Sure they're disappointed. Any software creator would be disappointed," Mattrick, boss of the Xbox 360 business, told Eurogamer at E3 for an exclusive interview set to run later this week.
"Harold [Ryan, Bungie president] just laughed and he said, 'Boy, just a sign of growth inside the business, we agree'."
Last week Ryan wrote on Bungie's website that the team was disappointed by Microsoft's last-minute decision not to unveil the game.
Pressed on the decision to pull the new Halo title from the E3 briefing, Mattrick said: "We didn't feel we needed to show Halo to have a great show, to pay homage to our core audience, to have a lot of news, so it was an embarrassment of riches and we couldn't fit it in. How great is that? I think that's awesome."
Microsoft will host an event "another time of the year that'll go deep on Halo", Mattrick explained.
"So that's what we're going to do and I think we're smart. I had so many people come to me and say 'look at that, that's a measure of growth and maturity of Microsoft - the fact that you have the best show, the best collection of products and you didn't even have to show Halo'."
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