Halo 4 announced

[Ark]

and once again, i only have enough money for at least 2 games in both oct. and nov...
this is the only time of the year that I cross my fingers for either a delay, or one of the games gets low review scores so i can eliminate it out...

[dz06lt]

Originally Posted by downphoenix

We will most certainly see some delays, like always.

Hard to say last year there was only 1 major delay, Mass Effect 3 which lead to a severe drought of quality titles this year.

Originally Posted by Shpeshal Ed

6th of November means 2 things:

MS have moneyhatted Activision to release Black Ops 2 in October, timed exclusive on 360.

I cant even imagine a dimesion where that would happen, Activision has tons of money riding on CoD and I cant see any pricetag that would cause them to do that. If could cause complete alienation of PS users.

Originally Posted by Ark

and once again, i only have enough money for at least 2 games in both oct. and nov...
this is the only time of the year that I cross my fingers for either a delay, or one of the games gets low review scores so i can eliminate it out...

For me its about time rather than money, i would like a 2 week window at least to have time with these games

[downphoenix]

Originally Posted by Shpeshal Ed

6th of November means 2 things:

1) Microsoft and 343 are holding a royal flush

2) Will have a marketing campaign that rivals Halo 2

possibility.

MS have moneyhatted Activision to release Black Ops 2 in October, timed exclusive on 360.

Um.... Wouldn't it make more sense for microsoft to moneyhat them to release the game LATER?

[Shpeshal Ed]

Originally Posted by downphoenix

Um.... Wouldn't it make more sense for microsoft to moneyhat them to release the game LATER?

Theoretically yes. But with CoD, they have 78 other formats to think of.

They can't delay ALL the other versions of CoD as well.

They release CoD a month earlier, get 1 month exclusivity on CoD, then have November to themselves.

[dz06lt]

Hold the phone guys, I didnt realize how november's calendar is set this year Because november starts so late in the week(NoV1 is Thursday) Call of Duty always releases on the second tuesday of November. So CoD's likley release date would be November 13th which sounds late because the last few games were released on 11/8 & 11/9. So Halo would get in before CoD not that it will really matter sales wise but it does give them a week head start.

[Ark]

ya, last time 'reach' came out in october and CoD november...
I'm guessin' they're feelin' pretty confident...

[dz06lt]

boxart

[Ark]

wow, for once a modern boxart looks amazing...