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January 9, 2007 Link to this post
H2V and Xbox - Playable?
Over at Bungie.net, the third question in the Halo 2 Vista FAQ pretty much puts the kibosh on the idea that H2Vista players will be able to play cross-platform with Halo 2 Xbox players. So when Robbie Bach came out during the CES Keynote this week and mentioned that Halo 2 would be cross-platform, Halo fans assumed he meant that they'd be able to share Friends lists, and the like. However, GameInformer has a story up this morning that suggests that the two WILL be interplayable:
Speaking to one of the Microsoft product managers currently working on both Shadowrun and Halo 2 for Vista, he stated that this would in fact be the case, and it's currently in testing. However, whether Halo 2 will be playable between PCs and the console at the launch of Halo 2 on Vista is unknown at this point.
This flies in the face of everything Bungie's said publicly about Halo 2 Vista multiplayer; it'll be interesting to see if it turns out to be a misunderstanding, or if some new functionality has been added that nobody was talking about before now. Update: KP has chimed in with an official Bungie denial - Halo 2 Vista and Halo 2 Xbox will not be interplayable; whoever GameInformer spoke to at CES was either misinformed, or misunderstood. Read KP's post for a more complete description of how the two games might interact. (Louis Wu 13:57:36 UTC)
