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September 4, 2000 Link to this post
Bungie alone with a non-exclusive launch title
Seen at GameSpot UK: At this weekend's ECTS (the European Computer Trade Show), Ed Fries announced some details of the Xbox launch strategy. There will be (at this point) 22 games ready for release with the box itself - seven from within Microsoft, and 15 from 3rd-party developers. It was this passage that caught my eye:
"Virtually everything we are developing will be exclusive to Xbox. We have a separate set of PC developers," he said. "We're not looking to port content back and forth between the Xbox and PC platforms."
The one exception Fries allowed to this rule is Bungie's much-hyped Halo, which will publish on Xbox, PC, and Macintosh platforms, although even this title will publish first on Xbox ahead of the PC release.
Shame on us for suggesting, yesterday, that Bungie doesn't hold a place of honor in the Xbox pantheon! (Louis Wu 03:35:22 UTC)
