Bungie's not ruling out working on other consoles

by David Hinkle { Aug 6th 2008 at 5:28PM }

Bungie and Microsoft have been attached at the hip for awhile now. Some gamers are Halo haters, a lot more are Halo lovers (folks do like to buy those games). While the likelihood of Halo releasing for other consoles is pretty darn slim, any future projects from the company could see release on platforms other than the Xbox 360.

During an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Bungie's lead AI programmer, Damian Isla, didn't discount the possibility of his company working on other systems, stating that for now "we are working on Xbox 360 with Microsoft but I don't know beyond that." His own interests lean toward the Wii, however, as he lauded it for its interface and appreciated the industry "moving in a direction where a much more casual gamer can come and pick up your game and wave a wand at a screen rather than learning ten different buttons to play Halo with the current Xbox 360 controller. That's really exciting and I think that's a very positive trend for the industry." We guess Damian isn't a subscriber to the Scott Steinberg philosophy of gaming.

We couldn't agree more, Mr. Isla. We couldn't agree more ...

[Via Videogamer]

Tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, bungie, damian-isla, halo, nintendo-wii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mr Khan @ Aug 6th 2008 5:33PM

I doubt much will ever come of it

I mean, Insomniac's technically totally independent of Sony, but where has that ever led?

Shogan @ Aug 6th 2008 5:48PM

Wow, Halo on the Wii. Not a Halo fan, but that would be interesting...

moo083 @ Aug 6th 2008 6:13PM

Well, no, it wouldn't happen because while Bungie is its own company now technically, Halo is still owned by Microsoft.

CJLopez @ Aug 6th 2008 8:54PM

moo083 its right, thats the reason why they canceled Halo DS. It was on its final stage when M$ just cut the inspiration out of them

Marshall @ Aug 6th 2008 5:50PM

Nowhere, Mr Khan, but lest we not forget that Bungie, a completely different entity, got its start on the Macintosh and Halo was originally in development exclusively for Macintosh. I don't know how much of the staff is still around since those days, but I can imagine there was some friction when they were bought up and forced to develop for Microsoft.

SoshiKitai @ Aug 6th 2008 5:58PM

Doubtful to see anytime soon (or maybe ever), but if they come, I hope the Nintendo fanboys welcome them.
The Bungie-team are filled with some pretty good people. I'm sure they'll try their best. They won't disappoint.

Matthew @ Aug 6th 2008 6:29PM

I hate all this, Nintendo shows great potential, the idea of gamers etc... I mean, you see it, the numbers prove it. Nintendo is clearly where it is at, hire some hard workers and develop for our bloody platform because if it's a great game, and advertised fairly well (unlike no more heroes) IT WILL SELL!