Halo 6 Is Going through "Serious, Real Planning," Microsoft States

Microsoft is doing "significant, real preparation" for the follow up to Halo 5: Guardians, and also, on a longer timetable, recognizes just how Master Chief's story will end. This is according to Halo franchise business advancement supervisor Frank O'Connor, just who talked about Halo 6-- or whatever the follow up to Halo 5 will certainly be called-- in a brand-new interview.

"We do kind of know what's going to happen in the next game pretty well at this point," O'Connor told GamesRadar. "We're doing serious, real planning and even some writing on the next game already, and that's a luxury--we've never been in that position before."

Microsoft exposed throughout PAX Prime in 2011 that Halo 4 was the beginning of The Reclaimer Trilogy, which would certainly span Halo 5 as well as Halo 6. Yet this story has actually because been expanded to end up being a "legend."

" While we initially stated trilogy, we've in fact broadened this to more of a saga, so we do not wish to limit the Reclaimer story within a trilogy," Microsoft validated back in 2013.

O'Connor took place to say that, looking beyond Halo 6, Microsoft understands, at a high degree at the very least, just what's going to occur in the Halo universe a 10 years from currently. Just recently, Xbox employer Phil Spencer said Halo has staying power similar to various other juggernaut franchise business such as Star Wars and also Spider-Man. Spencer stated he assumes Halo will still be prominent Twenty Years from currently in 2035, something that 343 workshop head Bonnie Ross concurred with as component of the GamesRadar meeting.

She spokened that the job done on the Halo franchise by Bungie with Halo 3: ODST as well as Halo: Reach laid "the fictional structure for the following 20 years" of Halo.

"You can look at the ending of Halo 4--and where Master Chief is, and obviously we had to know where we were going to take Halo 5 and Halo 6 with that," she said. "You have an epic sci-fi universe and we have multiple ways that we can go with this story, but all the pieces are laying there. The canvas is there for us to paint."

O'Connor wasn't prepared to devote to any specifics regarding Halo 6 or various other future games, claiming, "If you start making those stepping stones too rigid, then you're not being realistic about the game development process."

However O'Connor, just who has dealt with the Halo franchise for greater than a years, initially at Bungie and now with Microsoft, stated the tale preparing group already has a smart idea where Master Chief's tale will certainly end.

"We know what’s going to happen in the next game, and we kind of know what's going to happen to the Master Chief ultimately," he explained.

That Microsoft would be preparationing more Halo online games need to come as no surprise. Nevertheless, with greater than 65 million duplicates sold, Halo is Microsoft's crown jewel. "It's our biggest exclusive franchise," Spencer recently claimed. "There's no doubt about that."

The Halo 5 release day is set for October 27 on Xbox One.