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March 15, 2004 Link to this post
That Ballmer - he's a card
Bizarre find by Richard Watkins - in a speech Steve Ballmer made last fall at the Gartner Fall Symposium 2003 (it was the Microsoft Office System 2003 Launch), he said
We're working on the next version -- I hate to tell you this confidentially but I'll have to swear you to secrecy now -- we're working on the next version of Xbox right now and we're working on Halo 2 and Halo 3, the two newest versions of the game.
Now - remember, this is Microsoft's CEO; he probably doesn't spend a lot of time keeping track of projects that are several years out. And Bungie themselves have said that it's not certain that there will even BE a Halo 3 yet. And even if they WERE planning on a Halo 3, the chances that they were already into development on it last October (when the vast majority of the office was working on Halo 2, and the few remaining people were dealing with the very recent release of Halo PC and the problems it had at launch) are pretty slim. Given all this, the usual 'if it doesn't come from Bungie, don't believe it' caveats apply here... but it is interesting that Ballmer would make a statement like that at all. (Louis Wu 16:01:56 UTC)
