Bungie rope
Engadget have published an interview with Xbox head, Peter Moore. The interview was conducted at CES 2006 but has only just been published. Amongst the topics discussed Peter talks about the Japanese launch, Xbox live demos and gold memberships and confirms that Halo 3 will not launch at the same time as the PS3.
When asked the question, Are you going to time some major titles to coincide with the launch? He replied, "There’s no doubt, regardless of whether I throw a title in there or an update of Live or whatever, that it’s not going to affect their launch. You don’t think they’re not going to sell out of PlayStation 3s, do you? You think that if I could create a piece of IP so that PlayStation 3s would arrive at Best Buy and they’d sit on the shelves? Come on, it’s not going to happen. It never happens with a console launch, so the ability for me to distract the consumer, I mean, I’d rather focus on the fact that whatever we do, whether it’s what Rare’s doing or what Bungie’s doing, that we make the best games possible and that we release it when it’s ready and that it moves our platform."
On Halo 3 he said," The Halo Nation would string me out from some flagpole if I used Halo to be a competitive counter balance to something else, for it to be anything other than for it to be the greatest game ever on an Xbox console -- or on any console. I mean, people love the conspiracy theories, like that it’s already ready to go. You know, no, that is not the case at all. We have a very precious piece of intellectual property in the Halo franchise. As you know, we’re doing the movie, and we’re delighted that Peter Jackson is working on it with us. There’s too much invested in this franchise and the Halo Nation is too dear to us to use them as pawns in some bigger game. It doesn’t work that way."
It seems pretty conclusive that the issue regarding Halo 3 and the PS3 launch is now closed. Check out our Halo 3 rumours. The full interview with Pete Moore can be read here
