If there is a Halo 6 it will be on the PC too

[RayCathode]

Not sure how big that if is though.
Apparently Stinkles is some bigshot at Microsoft or whatever developer makes Halo games.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ph...c-halo-coming-to-pc.38507/page-5#post-7185532
Stinkles 343 Industries Verified User
We have stated a number of times that our future games (starting with Halo Wars 2 and Halo Wars 1 on Steam) will be coming for Xbox and PC. So if there was a "Halo 6" it would by that logic come to PC.

 

[Stg-Flame]

What's the point? Give us all of them or don't even bother. I don't think anyone at 343/Bungie/Microsoft understands how much money they would make if they brought all of them to PC in a bundle.

 

[Midwayman]

I thought MS was committed to bringing all their first party titles to PC under windows 10?

 

[Zenoth]

But where are Halo 3, Reach and the others on Windows? Heck, even the XBOX 360's 2011 Anniversary version of Halo 1 isn't on Windows (or the same can be said for the XBOX One's Master Chief Collection version). I mean... it's Windows, it's Microsoft; and isn't the whole Halo franchise owned by Microsoft? I never understood why basically the entire main series wasn't also released on PC (obviously except for just the first and second games... and Halo Wars, I guess).

 

[JTsyo]

I remember playing Halo1 on PC but never finished it since my save got corrupted.

 

[rstrohkirch]

I remember playing Halo1 on PC but never finished it since my save got corrupted.

That game got me to upgrade to a Radeon 9700 Pro when it came out.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I had a lot of fun playing halo 1.
Halo 2 i never owned.
I guess they never released halo on the pc anymore because it would undermine the sales of xbox hardware.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I had a lot of fun playing halo 1.
Halo 2 i never owned.
I guess they never released halo on the pc anymore because it would undermine the sales of xbox hardware.

That was the original reason, but they did say as mentioned above that they are going to bring all the first party Xbox titles to Windows going forward. That means that all future Halo titles (and there will be more) are going to come to PC. I suppose the reason the older ones didn't make it aside from Halo 1 and 2 a while back, is because they have to run on some type of emulation and have never been ported. The Master Chief collection on Xbox One has all kinds of issues that still aren't fixed 3 years later.

So I wouldn't count on any of the older games making the port but I would count on every new title being available day one on Windows. With their Xbox Play Anywhere program, if you buy the game for Windows you get the Xbox One version as well or vice versa if you purchase the game digitally. That's pretty nice and it also offers cross platform play as well. This means if I play on PC and my friend has it on Xbox One I can play with them and with cloud saves I can save my game and go to an xbox and continue the game wherever I left off. Since I have an Xbox One X as well as a PC capable of playing the games, I can choose which version to play. There have been times where the PC version has game breaking bugs so I can simply play it on Xbox until the bugs are fixed and then continue where I left off. For any titles I actually care about from Microsoft this is a very welcome feature for me. The downside is the windows store which has been plagued with issues from download errors that force you to start a download over, to previously locking all your game and app installs to a single folder on the C drive(this has since been addressed). Hopefully there is better support for the PC platform on future releases. There are a couple games that do not support HDR on Windows but do support HDR on the Xbox such as Gears of War 4 and Forza Horizon 3.

 

[Stuka87]

That game got me to upgrade to a Radeon 9700 Pro when it came out.

I purchased a 9800 Pro to play it, ran it wonderfully. I long for the days of $199 top end video cards

To answer the OP, yes, all first party MS games go to XBoxOne and Windows 10. So if a new Halo comes out as a first party game, then it will be on both platforms.

 

[William Gaatjes]

That was the original reason, but they did say as mentioned above that they are going to bring all the first party Xbox titles to Windows going forward. That means that all future Halo titles (and there will be more) are going to come to PC. I suppose the reason the older ones didn't make it aside from Halo 1 and 2 a while back, is because they have to run on some type of emulation and have never been ported. The Master Chief collection on Xbox One has all kinds of issues that still aren't fixed 3 years later.

So I wouldn't count on any of the older games making the port but I would count on every new title being available day one on Windows. With their Xbox Play Anywhere program, if you buy the game for Windows you get the Xbox One version as well or vice versa if you purchase the game digitally. That's pretty nice and it also offers cross platform play as well. This means if I play on PC and my friend has it on Xbox One I can play with them and with cloud saves I can save my game and go to an xbox and continue the game wherever I left off. Since I have an Xbox One X as well as a PC capable of playing the games, I can choose which version to play. There have been times where the PC version has game breaking bugs so I can simply play it on Xbox until the bugs are fixed and then continue where I left off. For any titles I actually care about from Microsoft this is a very welcome feature for me. The downside is the windows store which has been plagued with issues from download errors that force you to start a download over, to previously locking all your game and app installs to a single folder on the C drive(this has since been addressed). Hopefully there is better support for the PC platform on future releases. There are a couple games that do not support HDR on Windows but do support HDR on the Xbox such as Gears of War 4 and Forza Horizon 3.

Porting games can be an issue.
But not for here.

Halo 1 was also for the original xbox and for windows. I know, i own that game.
Halo 2 for the original xbox.
And the original xbox had a single x86 cpu with a standard nvidia gpu.
Halo 2 was also released for windows once but now is nowhere to be found.
Not even in de windows store. I checked.
It is only for sale for the xbox one in an master chief collection pack.

I think that the original reason still stands for these games.
Halo 3 and Halo 4 are xbox360 games, so there the emulator can be a problem.
Mostly timing issues and not emulating powerpc isa.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Porting games can be an issue.
But not for here.

Halo 1 was also for the original xbox and for windows. I know, i own that game.
Halo 2 for the original xbox.
And the original xbox had a single x86 cpu with a standard nvidia gpu.
Halo 2 was also released for windows once but now is nowhere to be found.
Not even in de windows store. I checked.
It is only for sale for the xbox one in an master chief collection pack.

I think that the original reason still stands for these games.
Halo 3 and Halo 4 are xbox360 games, so there the emulator can be a problem.
Mostly timing issues and not emulating powerpc isa.

I own halo 1 and 2 for pc so I know about those. The 360 games are the tough ones I think. The new ones will be relatively easy ports.

 

[Midwayman]

I own halo 1 and 2 for pc so I know about those. The 360 games are the tough ones I think. The new ones will be relatively easy ports.

Even the 360 builds have a version working on a PC somewhere. Just the way the middleware typically works. I know all the 360 games I worked on we played on PC long before we had them running on console. Just more work to polish up.

 

[Arshad Hussain]

Halo reminds me of my school days most importantly its musical it was soulful. MS should announce their new Halo games on PC directly unlike going for Xbox first and pc later.

 

[SPBHM]

I own halo 1 and 2 for pc so I know about those. The 360 games are the tough ones I think. The new ones will be relatively easy ports.

not really a problem, the x360 Halos were ported to the Xbox One under the Master Chief Collection,

 

[cmdrdredd]

not really a problem, the x360 Halos were ported to the Xbox One under the Master Chief Collection,

And after 4 years they are still broken.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I own halo 1 and 2 for pc so I know about those. The 360 games are the tough ones I think. The new ones will be relatively easy ports.

I still do not get it that halo 2 is nowhere to be found. Only second hand.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I still do not get it that halo 2 is nowhere to be found. Only second hand.

Wasn’t it only for windows vista? I seem to remember it not working on other OS.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Wasn’t it only for windows vista? I seem to remember it not working on other OS.

I think that had todo with being a DX10 game and that directx10 would only be bundled with vista and higher.
Windows xp users were forced to upgrade.

 

[Blitzvogel]

I think that had todo with being a DX10 game and that directx10 would only be bundled with vista and higher.
Windows xp users were forced to upgrade.

It just auto detected for Win version. It's a DX9 game. It works on at least Win7 just fine (I beat both games on PC on Win7), but still looks for a Games For Windows connection and that can complicate things.

 

[SPBHM]

yes Halo 2 was DX9, it was locked to run only on Vista+ but people very quickly had it running on XP;

 

[William Gaatjes]

It just auto detected for Win version. It's a DX9 game. It works on at least Win7 just fine (I beat both games on PC on Win7), but still looks for a Games For Windows connection and that can complicate things.

Indeed. I remember something like that was the case. To force people to vista. But vista was a mess.

 

[NTMBK]

I just want the Master Chief Collection on PC, to play with the new Duke controller:

 

[cmdrdredd]

I just want the Master Chief Collection on PC, to play with the new Duke controller:

I hated that controller so much. When they came out with the S controller I was so much happier.

 

[Oyeve]

I still have Halo 1 Alpha demo for PC long before MS scrapped it and decided to put it on xbox.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I still have Halo 1 Alpha demo for PC long before MS scrapped it and decided to put it on xbox.

Before the game had a name it was shown in 1997 at MacWorld. It was to be a 3rd person persistent battlefield action game. I think what they wanted to do was too lofty of an idea and they changed it into an FPS once Microsoft acquired bungie