Xbox 360 Fanboy

but the Japanese public doesn't care about MS or Halo so them announcing Bungie's new Halo project at TGS instead of E3 where people care about Halo and in the prime market for Halo seems kind of weird. It's kind of like how Blizzard went to Korea to announce Star craft 2, the Korean audience are the biggest star craft fans so it gets best reception there. Halo would get a lukewarm reception in Japan but a great one at E3

Your face never existing again FTW

Oh, you're a feisty like bitch aren't you?

I LIKE THAT! o]>=

Bungie thought the announcement was going to happen as planned and Microsoft changed the plan on them so they stopped the countdown. there isn't anything irresponsible or annoying about that

What are you babbeling about?

The plan was to have the announcement at Microsofts conference. But Don decided to cut the 2 and a half hour conference to an hour and a half.

So Microsoft changed the plan sometime between june- and july because of Dons choice. And the announcement was give its own event on Wensday. Some one from Microsoft then phoned Bungie on tuesday night, about 12 hours before the announcement was set to occur and canceled it.

Bungie had a horde of things planned. A mocumentary about E3, a podcast, a trailer, a fan fair at Pax, and a lot more that had to get shelved because of the last minute cancelation. That quite frankly should not have occured in the first place.

Don started taking heat, and he accuses Harold of laughing at the cancelation when he was first told.

No one is assuming anything here but you.

Well, dealing with a large corporation which probably has a lot of unnecessary political drama can be tiring. Also, we don't know how or how much effort was put into the announcement so they might have had done a nice set up to only get told their efforts were for naught at last minute. Especially if they were told they were going to save the announcement for a trump card later, which is really just unnecessary PR maneuvering because real gamers really don't care for that bs.

I can see your argument though, but ultimate we really don't know what fully went down, so all I can say is...

Another Halo Woot :)

It and GoW were the only reason I bought a 360 in the first place :D (and to play Chromehounds but don't tell anyone >.>)

Amen, I'm just happy knowing there is a game to be announced.

Simple: because everyone already knew the announcement was coming, and all that making the announcement would do is completely drown out any and all coverage of anything else MS showed at E3. If they had "a great show" as you say, then why not let that show get as much press as possible and then, only once that has died down, schedule and put on a dedicated event for this remaining announcement. A Bungie-related announcement is worth the cost of hosting a separate event, and the net result is more total press coverage of both the E3 announcements and the Bungie one (when it happens.)

It's true, Halo is a hell of a weapon to have. And to not have to use it is great. BUT, I'm of the mind that if you have the bullets in the chamber- you should use them.