Spencer Yip of Siliconera snagged some facetime with Brian Jarrard and Frank O'Connor of Bungie to ask the question that a lot of us have yearned to ask ourselves: what's with the whole Halo DS thing that IGN's Matt Casamassina keeps insisting is real?The official word is: if he played it, it wasn't from Bungie. So Casamassina's probably not insane or lying, but it's not anything resembling a "real" Halo DS with the official stamp of Bungie approval. Apparently, the idea of Halo on the DS has been pitched numerous times, so Jarrard and O'Connor said that if Casamassina played a handheld Halo, it was probably a prototype mockup for one of those pitches. Sorry to dash any hopes, but the Bungie duo didn't sound too enthused on the idea of Halo on Nintendo's dual screens. They wouldn't rule it out, but it seems we're not the only ones who have a few reservations about FPS games on the DS. That doesn't mean there couldn't be a Halo spinoff of some sort, however!
We can only hope this puts a stop to the discussions of whether or not Halo DS ever existed, even if it doesn't really answer the question. We can, at least, say for sure that Bungie didn't make an official version, but maybe your neighbor Bob is working on one right now. Why don't you go give him a hand?
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7-18-2007 @ 3:43PM
hvnlysoldr said...
Matt Casamassina was right. He did play Halo DS. A genuine knockoff.
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7-18-2007 @ 3:44PM
hvnlysoldr said...
I mean he did play a Halo DS. A real genuine knockoff replica.
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7-18-2007 @ 3:51PM
Covarr said...
Matt Casamassina may in fact be lying, though, since other IGN folks have said he was, and also since every time he says he'll have proof he ends up not having proof.
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7-18-2007 @ 5:18PM
ssuk said...
Well, a few possabilities:
1) Bungie have seen their fans are up in arms over a possibility of a Nintendo console Halo and have stopped it's development and now are denying it's exsistance.
2) Another development team is deving the title hence why Bungie doesn't know about it and MS are laughing their way to the bank.
3) Matt is a lying bastard and should get the hell of the internet.
All 3 points are just stating the obvious though.
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7-19-2007 @ 10:03AM
jrock said...
why would bungie be doing halo on the ds anyways? bungie has said that halo 3 is the last time they are touching the halo universe, but we already know with halo wars that MS is going to continue driving the cash cow.
Halo DS is not dead, certainly not just because Bungie said so.
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7-21-2007 @ 6:29PM
archerboy said...
I think that he's trying to get someone to make a emulated version [like those ppl did for DOOM] on the DS and wants to "prove ppl wrong"
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