Heres the thing with 64 players, it's not possible unless every one has cable or dsl. Some people on live hsve the crappiest connections.

I hope that all happens that would be awesome. Dammit now im all excited about halo again.

it will not stop X06 of showing what the 360 has to offer and why it will be #1 this holliday season.

Regardless of HOW big X06 is going to be, Microsoft is already in a great position. One of the top stories at TGS was... gamers lining up for over an hour to play a JRPG on Xbox? It just doesn't make sense. Then again, that's Blue Dragon for ya.

Now Microsoft gets to follow-up on its "home turf". And X06 is gonna be big.

But I do have to say- Halo 3 in native 1080p? WHO. CARES. It would be a hilarious dig at Sony if Microsoft has a multiplayer demo running in native 1080p... but other than for bashing Sony fans, there's really no purpose.

I don't own an HDTV at all. And I'm beside around 90% of the consumer market with that. And even among HDTV owners, "true" 1080p is still a rarity. It's really not a big deal.

(Eh, what the heck- screw Sony and bring out the big guns, Bungie. If they wanna grind 1080p in Xbox's face, they'd better be prepared to go to war over it.)

If all this stuff is true, it would be pretty crazy. Especially halo 3 multiplayer with that many people, but youll need huge maps for that. I hope all this stuff becomes true though

did anyone read where the article said that CoD2 can only hold 3 people online? that's crazy...i think he needs to go back and learn how to count.

8 people all day long my man.

It's about time nice to see Rare is listening to the xbox community. I just hope they make it way better than those virtua fighters and tekken's not a fan of those, they are good games but i always loved KI. Thank you MS damn its a good time to own a 360.

I think over 16 is just too many people, especially for Halo; it's a finely tuned and balanced game at 16 players, and it works perfectly that way. I think changing the maximum number of player would just change the feel of the game too much, it would be too hectic. I hope it's not true, 16 is the sweet spot for online in my opinion.

Rare used to be totally legendary, making the best of the best games (goldeneye, perfect dark, donkey kong, etc.). PDZ was great in multiplayer, but could still use some polishing. The single player was a huge let down, y didnt they hire real actors instead of retards? The weapons and extremely high level of multiplayer setup customization has set a new standard, but its still missing a little of wat the original had.

Rare is working too dam slow, and they really need to step it up, bring us more games (with quality just as good if not better than their old games), at a faster rate, as well as downloadable content i.e. maps, weapons (they make the best weapons of any fps), and character customization. Look at ubisoft, theyre making terrific games at a reasonably fast rate. If rare can get back to the way it was before, we may see games that can top the halo and ff franchises.

This even is gonna be huge for me and the rest of my 360 friends on Live and here, cause this is Microsofts time to just put Sony in the crapper. If they do everything that i want to hear and see.
1. HD DVD price and launch date.
2. Halo 3 in-game action and more revealed about the story. Maybe even a release date.
3. Announcing more "Live Anywhere" Titles other than Shadowrun and theres another one but i forgot.
4. Bigger HDD release. You know maybe a 40 or even a 60GB to match with PS3, just have it priced at 159.99.
5. A Huge Gears Of War Multiplayer both, to show 16 players shooting and chainsawing the hell out of each other.
6. MORE GAMES
7. MORE MORE GAMES
8. MORE PS3 Killer Games.
This week(weekend) is gonna be huge for M$. Just as Sony's time to do that was last week at TGS, and failed to approve the audience(well they approved me by their games, there games are sweet). Now this is M$'s time to take over. Sony better have something equally as good as X06 for North America, or they are finished.

Ditto

I would expect nothing less from Bungie than 1080p for Halo 3. This is the closing statement for the Halo series.

k that would be cool all of that stuff. i dunno if 50 - 64 would be fun. but maybe it would be so challenging with 20 people after you with a BR. ahh that would be very cool!!!!!! i dont really care about 1080p, i just want halo 3 to be good.

It's going to put Microsoft in a really good position. Look at Lost Odessey and Blue Dragon, those two games can really help bring profits up in Japan. And if all this is true, (I'm really hoping just like all of you guys), Sony is going to have to do something really special (like drop the price of the PS3 to $199.99 or something like that lol) to keep sony fans from leaving their corner. I really do hope Sony can get their act together because right now everything is looking very good for Microsoft. Oh, by the way, if there is over 32+ players Online for Halo 3, that's going to be sweet. Comment away :)

i think it would be great if you could play 4 players in a campaign co op online, i would love to go through the story with a small platoon of spartans

'Cause Sony's made a big comeback, and it'll take a lot more than Gears of War and Halo to save them. Sakaguchi's titles are turning out to be standard rpg fare and nothing really special, and their big titles like Lost Planet and Forza 2 aren't coming out for quite a while. Sony on the other hand has a crapload of great titles revealed to the public and a bunch that have been kept secret since E3 05 and 06.

Halo 3 is the only thing that Microsoft has kept behind doors and while it definitely will be popular, even Halo 2 wasn't enough to save Xbox 1. Too Human had a horrible showing. Mass Effect's gameplay left something to be desired, and the low-poly counts interfered with what was supposed to be impressive dialogue sequences. And now Team Ninja's having second thoughts about the 360 and seeing what it's like to develop on a more powerful console and without the space constrictions of DVD (yes, Itagaki openly complained about it).

For every potentially great 360 title that Microsoft shows, Sony seems to have 3 or 4 potentially great PS3 titles to counter. Ironically, Microsoft had it right all along. It's all about the games, and in that respect Sony's won so far (and they haven't even launched the system). Even watching the IGN Weekly video you can tell that there was disappointment with the 360's skimpy showing, and a lot of praise for the huge variety that the PS3 put on display.

1080p is available to anyone who uses VGA or the 360's HDMI that will probably come out.

Yah you don't need the 200 bucks add on, only vga to 1080p upscale. Also to note the VGA only costs 10 bucks.

Now im not sure of this, but would a native 1080p verison of Halo 3 fit on a 9 gb DVD?