343 Industries will continue to develop Halo, with help from other studios

Despite having come out of the Summer Game Fest reinforced with a good conference in which they highlighted Starfield, many Xbox fans are still waiting for news from the brand’s flagship franchise, Halo. Regarding this, the head of Xbox Game Studios has spoken and ratified 343 Industries as the leads of the Master Chief saga. Matt Booty encouraged players, ensuring that the team that is now in charge of Halo is very different from the one that started with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

“I feel confident in the leadership team, but the team that got us here is probably not the same team that’s going to take us forward,” Booty said. “Look at the quality of [the] Master Chief Collection and know that that core team that did that is doing a lot of the heavy lifting on Halo right now.”

After the bumpy launch of that compilation and the subsequent departure of Bonnie Ross, it was Pierre Hintze, producer until then, who got in charge of the project, improving it considerably.

The future of Halo

After all of that hard work, Booty insists that 343 Industries will continue to be the studio in charge of the series, although other external studios could be involved in development. In fact, Certain Affinity studio is collaborating on Halo Infinite, having previously worked on franchises like Call of Duty, Left 4 Dead, and DOOM. Will this include Call of Duty managers if the purchase of Activision Blizzard does end up happening?

“If something like that were to happen, it would have to come from the studios,” Booty says. “It’s unlikely that we would come in and dictate that from the top.”

In this way, Booty wants to reinforce a studio that suffered harshly from the multiple layoffs that Microsoft carried out last June, with more than 10,000 people who lost their jobs throughout the entire company.

Source | Axios