<nerdmode> In metric it's spelled tonne and pronounced like tawn. </nerdmode>

:P

Guys, its a smart move and it further solidifies Microsofts domination this holiday.

thats what happens when MS is your publisher....they will control your games as if its their's

its true, with playstation winning the momentum war for half a year now, the 360 got most of it back at e3, and will save announcements for later when they are needed.

People criticize ms for not having exclusives past 2008, and you are wrong. Microsoft doesn't talk about stuff that isn't very close to arriving.

it's called keeping a secret from your sworn enemy, Fony.

That MS might have dropped the announcement for a different reason?

Not because they were confident with their conference and wanted to save it, but because they lacked faith and didn't think it would be big enough?

Just playing the devils advocate here, so don't bite my head off...

I think they want to save it to TGS or some other conference. It would be in competition with the FFXIII unveiling and one would steal the focus of the other.

There is TGS next month then you got X08 which is Microsoft's own even so don't expect MS to reveal everything at once.

not to release antything because initial plans were to drop another MEGATON and trumph whatever exciting things SONY had. Unfortunately for everyone SONY did not deliver this E3 therfor they're going to save it for anoter day once the buzz from E3 fades

Well this is disappointing. The only positive is Microsoft gave a very good show without pulling out any Halos. Still, this saddens me that it was not an elaborate prank.

obviously microsoft knew that obtaining FFXIII was a HUGE deal in the gaming industry so i don't blame them for holding off the bungie announcment, microsoft didnt even show forza 3, alan wake ect ect, they made a HUGE impact this E3 without even having to show that much footage of their other games in development.... looks to me like microsoft have plenty going on for them in 2009 and beyond.......

This huge Bungie announcement should have taken the place of all the casual crap they had at E3. But instead they shut Bungie up and simply say that a new Halo game is coming out (yea makes a lot of sense).

I can see this hurting MS-Bungie relations.

Fak that countdown, if u got nothing to show off!!

WOWOWOWWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW! First Microsoft Renames meatflag submission and now this.

ur not red e
u r nt rdee
youre not ready
live in your world play in ours
play beyond

Translation?:
you will be surprised
you suck
not enough money for a ps3?
have a montly bill or buy a video game system
don't play with dolls, create your design

Hello, max?
cancel my account please.
I don't wanna pay for nothing no more, maybe I'll try a free trial in November but sorry I'm done.
I'm the Master now!
Sell, trade & upgrade.

Look how long it took them to make Halo 3 - does anyone think this game actually did the hardware justice!? I was excited about a new Halo until I found out it was being dev. by Bungie(ugh).

And about FF13 - yeah, MS was trying to say they are only going to debut games that will be released this year, so what's the deal w/ announcing FF when it wont even be released til 2010, not even b4 the next e3?

The 360 version will take a year to dev., FF13 is powered by the crystal tools engine which is strictly a PS3 application. There are rumors that their is a PC version of the game running, which shouldn't be too hard to port to 360, but still, by the time it arrives to that console the game's gonna be old news.

All I'm saying is that it was a cheap tactic on MS's part to announce a game that isn't coming out for its console in 2yrs, roughly about a year before the PS3 version comes out. They were just trying to steal some thunder from PS3, but they neglected to mention some important details like the ones I just stated.

bungie can take their time w/e they release will pwn the heck out of "F@G" or w/e g@y title phony has to offer

after all phony's so called halo-killers always end up killing itself
hahahaa

i did read something last night that although MS cancelled the bungie announcement they are going to have a conference sometime in the near future that is 100% dedicated to the bungie projects.

i understand why they did it, you even mention the word halo and nothing else they said at e3 would matter. and now MS is going to pay for a bungie only event, that has to make them feel better. not the mention MS the past few years at e3 have only been showing games coming out in the next 6 months, the bungie stuff is probably farther out than that.

I am sure what they had to show would have been kick ass... I was looking forward to see what they were going to bring to the table....

It is very odd that it happen like this... and there is way more to it than they are saying... I wonder if it had to do with legal issues than anything else...

I hope to see what they have though soon....

every thing happens for a reason

This decision while rude since apparently Bungie didn't get the memo will only benefit them more since they will prob get a more focused stage for their 3 Halo games. Halo Wars, Halo Peter Jackson, and Halo 4 or Halo prequel.

Why does everyone assume this is Microsoft's fault?

What if Sony/Nintendo actually is having Bungie develop a game for them (Bungie IS independent now) and Sony/Nintendo was the ones telling them to keep quiet?

I'm just saying, could be possible.