NEW HALO GAME LAUNCH DATE FULL
Battlefield 2042 was supposed to be the most high-profile game launching this month (especially after tepid Call of Duty: Vanguard reviews), but Halo Infinite just crashed a Warthog full of banana peels on its clear runway. It’s a bombshell move and one that might tick the competition off. And all of that will happen before people start putting together their holiday wish lists. Players will start posting clips all over social media, it’ll dominate Twitch charts, and media will start kicking out impressions way earlier than planned (ourselves included). While the game isn’t fully out (single-player is still coming in December), the conversation around it is now in full swing. Any critical acclaim would come late, making it hard for Microsoft to capitalize heading into the holidays.īy dropping the multiplayer mode early, Microsoft has rewritten the rules. Ultimate when it dropped in mid-December 2018. Similarly, the game would be ineligible for The Game Awards this year and would be considered for the following year’s show instead, much like what happened to Super Smash Bros. While Digital Trends planned to hold our GOTY decision until we played Halo, others likely would have left it out of contention and saved it for their 2022 lists. December releases also tend to miss the Game of the Year season as many sites publish their lists by the end of November. Getting good word of mouth was going to be a challenge, too. Even if Halo Infinite got positive buzz at launch, it would be late to the party. Battlefield 2042 and Call of Duty: Vanguard would headline sales events, putting those shooters in the spotlight heading into the holidays. A December date meant that the game wouldn’t be out in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, when many people buy holiday gifts or hunt for discounted games. Halo Infinite was set to be its big holiday game, but its planned December 8 release date wasn’t ideal.
Un-freakin’ believableīefore the surprise drop, Microsoft was in something of an awkward position. It’s the sneakiest power play a video game company has pulled since Sony’s infamous “$299” mic drop at E3 1995. The decision to drop Halo Infinite early isn’t just a sweet “thank you” to fans for their support.
If you had a strict plan for tackling all the games launching this holiday season, go ahead and toss it in the fire. Xbox Game Pass subscribers had just begun digging into the recently released Forza Horizon 5. Shooter fans were just sitting down with Call of Duty: Vanguard and waiting for Battlefield 2042’s full release. In an age where video game release dates only get moved back, not forward, the news came as a straight-up shock.
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