Last week there were rumours that a HD upgrade to Halo was in the works for a 2011 release. Whilst not completely dousing the flames, Microsoft Game Studios Corporate Vice President Phil Spencer has certainly put a damp cloth over them by saying:
“I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad idea. I’m going to think about it from the customer’s perspective, and are we really delivering something of value to the customer at a price that they want?
We obviously have a lot of new things going on, so the thought of re-doing a bunch of things is probably difficult to just weave into the overall portfolio.
If you can provide real value to the customer, there could be possibilities for that, but I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it.”
I tend to disagree with his views. The God of War collection has already proven that, if done right, HD re-releases can be fantastic value, and I’m genuinely tempted by at least three of the upcoming makeovers.
Source: IGN
Scythegpd
You can totally understand this view from a Microsoft executive. What HD remake of a 360 game would really sell well enough to cover the costs of the remake? Halo, that’s pretty much it.
Sony can pull this off because they PS2 had a huge number of games that people are prepared to rebuy in HD, a large number of them first party.
The XBox doesn’t really have that library from prior gens.