*Big Surprise* Halo3 launch not with PS3...

[VictimOfScience]

When Bill Gates said in Time magazine that Halo 3 would launch the same day that the PS3 launches I wondered, "How in the world could they get it up to quality that soon?!" It turns out they can't and Robbie Bach has to smooth over the ripples that his Master Chief has caused. It certainly sounded like a literal pledge to me--who would have thought that is was meant to be "philosophically."

Robbie Bach, President of Microsoft's Xbox entertainment and devices division, indicated that earlier comments made by Bill Gates that Halo 3 would be available to counter the release of Sony's PlayStation 3 next-generation gaming console were "philosophical" and not to be taken as a literal pledge, according to an interview at InfoWorld.com.

In response to a question regarding comments made in Time Magazine by Bill Gates earlier this year that Halo 3 would be released in time to blunt the launch of the PS3, Bach indicated that his boss was using the next Halo game as a metaphor for the upcoming Xbox 360 titles. According to Bach, "Philosophically, the point Bill was trying to make is that we're not just going to ship and not have great stuff coming up. We don't know when Sony will ship PS3. They've said spring ... What we do know is that the way our portfolio lines up we're going to have great exclusive content. Halo is something we'll ship when it's ready."

Hahaha! "Philosophically, the point Bill was trying to make is..." I wonder what he takes us for. This sort of disclaimer is SUCH malarkey.

Still, this is a good lesson for anyone to learn: Don't go spouting off about how your killer-app is going to go head-to-head with the competition in the Spring if its still vaporware in October and will be nowhere near ready by then. That's just irresponsible and only makes you look foolish.

 

[Kmack]

i can see what he was trying to say.

 

[VictimOfScience]

i can see what he was trying to say.

Yeah, he was tyring to say, "Bill shouldn't have said that as it won't be anywhere close to ready by then," but it came out in some very strange and poor excuse.

 

[Loke]

Hehe, but I'm not really so surprised. When Gates said that I just thought to myself, "Yeah, in your dreams Billy boy".

 

[Icarusintel]

Bill Gates is a dumbass

 

[<RJMC>]

the thing is
if halo3 get released the same time as ps3 how it can affect the sales of ps3?
cuz sure if someone is going to buy halo3 it will buy a xbox360 first and sure in the relese date or close

 

[Javert]

Bill Gates is a dumbass

And he's richer than you because he's a dumbass.

 

[IchI]

And he's richer than you because he's a dumbass.

You don't have to be smart to be rich, but I get what you mean

 

[VictimOfScience]

You don't have to be smart to be rich, but I get what you mean

Yeah, just look at Paris Hilton for instance.

Even for Bill though, that comment was a bit over the top. Glad they're finally admitting that...oh wait! They're not! Hahaha!

 

[ríomhaire]

Bill said what he ment. He simply doesn't have a clue about games.

 

[dream431ca]

Looks like Microsoft grew a brain cell...when did Halo 2 come out..November 2004? They said "Hey look! halo 3 coming out the same time sony 3 is coming out!!" That's only a year and a half to make a game. If they had gone with that plan..Halo 3 would suck so much just like Halo 2 sucked..only worse...which is hard to imagine.

 

[Zeus]

Bill Gates is a dumbass

Lol ok he's a dumbass...because he started his own company that eventually became a multi billion dollar corporation that makes software you're probably using right now...

k..

 

[VictimOfScience]

Lol ok he's a dumbass...because he started his own company that eventually became a multi billion dollar corporation that makes software you're probably using right now...

k..

Everyone knows he's not, but that was a really dumb thing for him to say. It doesn't seem to me that the xbox is all that important to him anyways--he's got much bigger cash-cows to fry, like the next iteration of Windows and Office.

Its only a matter of time til the "Games for Windows" slogan is printed on an MS console game box. Heck, isn't the 360 running an emaciated version of Media Center? Oh, and Media Center is a crap OS by the way .

 

[DeusExMachina]

Wow. Who cares. None of you. Why even bother talking about it. Just to go "OH SNAP MICROSOFT IS WRONG WHAT A BUNCHA DUMMIEZ LOL." Seriously, who cares? You're never going to play Halo 3 obviously, it shouldn't even be a matter of consideration to you :|.

 

[ailevation]

Wow. Who cares. None of you. Why even bother talking about it. Just to go "OH SNAP MICROSOFT IS WRONG WHAT A BUNCHA DUMMIEZ LOL." Seriously, who cares? You're never going to play Halo 3 obviously, it shouldn't even be a matter of consideration to you :|.

Maybe they're babbling about it because Bill Gates tried to be all hard sounding confident that Microsoft would drop the "Halo 3 Hydrgen bomb" on the PS3, by dropping on the same date. PSSH MODED.

 

[DeusExMachina]

/cry.

sixchar.

 

[operative x]

when are these consoles coming out again?

 

[mortiz]

Sounds like Bill Gates talking bullshit again.

At least he isn't as bad as his C.E.O, Steve Ballmer.

This may sound obvious but Bill Gate’s X Billion dollars has made him silly, super-arrogant and ignorant.

 

[Top Secret]

Am I the only one that has respect for Bill Gates? I mean, the dude made his fortune with a couple buddies out of a garage. He dropped out of college to persue his dream, and he made it. Not only did he make it, he regularily donates to charities, and is honest to God a nice guy. And also, somehow avoided curruption.

 

[mortiz]

Am I the only one that has respect for Bill Gates? I mean, the dude made his fortune with a couple buddies out of a garage. He dropped out of college to persue his dream, and he made it. Not only did he make it, he regularily donates to charities, and is honest to God a nice guy. And also, somehow avoided curruption.

It was hardly out of his garage, his parents were millionaires so he had the opportunities.

Also, don't you worry, Bill Gates has screwed over a lot of people to get where he is today.

 

[Gui!]

Bill Gates = Genious

 

[Feath]

When Bill Gates said in Time magazine that Halo 3 would launch the same day that the PS3 launches I wondered, "How in the world could they get it up to quality that soon?!"

My guess would be that they would not bother writing an ending and just stop it without any sort of conclusion. Like Halo 2.

 

[VictimOfScience]

At least he isn't as bad as his C.E.O, Steve Ballmer.

Yeah, that guy is as bad as Bobby Knight LOL! He throws chairs like it were an Olympic event! See here.
F***ing maniac!!! Good choice for CEO....

 

[<RJMC>]

And he's richer than you because he's a dumbass.

I think consider someone better that other cuz hav more money is stupid

and if that is how life works them we all are crap compared to bill gates?

btw I dont give a crap about bill gates and sure he only cares to win this console war and that first post is a proof of it

 

[Cole]

btw I dont give a crap about bill gates and sure he only cares to win this console war and that first post is a proof of it

Sooo??
He owns a ****ing company of course thats what he tries to do.
It's why my store Pick N Save(or Pick n Slave as I like to say) is nice to customers, and forces us to be to. Because we want them to comeback, we are a business, we will try and screw over other companies, we will do what we have to do beat the competition.

He is a business, and business deals with competition, THE WHOLE POINT OF COMPETITION IS TO BEAT THE OTHER PLAYERS. This goes for any company. It goes for Apple, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Roundys, etc... Google offered more space, google offered a better search system, google offered desktop indexers, etc...google offered this and that and they use a smart ad system to gain revenue from all of it. Google competes very well. Google is no diffrent than Microsoft really. Hell Microsoft has lost over 100 employs to google. Bill gates even said that Google reminded Microsoft of themselves.

OF COURSE THE WHOLE POINT OF ANY BIG BUSINESS IS TO DESTORY THE COMPETITION AND WIN.
Microsoft isn't a bad company, they were an extremely good company that did sucessfull. They are a very good company, they try and destroy competition and they are doing it well and guess what!! Thats the point. It's the point for sony, the point for apple, the point for IBM, the point for presidential elections, the point for <putpointhere>

 

[VictimOfScience]

he only cares to win this console war

Correct...insofar as he wants a machine running a Windows OS in every household in the world.

I don't care for the xbox because the games are not my thing at all. I have to admit that this generation's selection looks a LOT better than the previous one. I am actually interested in some of the titles, so that should tell everyone something about what they are doing right.

OF COURSE THE WHOLE POINT OF ANY BIG BUSINESS IS TO DESTORY THE COMPETITION AND WIN.

Haha! True. You just usually never hear about the CEO saying things like "****ing Eric Schmidt is a ****ing pussy. I'm going to ****ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to ****ing kill Google." -- Stever Ballmer after throwing a chair across the room because Mark Lucovsky, who was a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, told him he was defecting to Google.

 

[<RJMC>]

Sooo??
He owns a ****ing company of course thats what he tries to do.
It's why my store Pick N Save(or Pick n Slave as I like to say) is nice to customers, and forces us to be to. Because we want them to comeback, we are a business, we will try and screw over other companies, we will do what we have to do beat the competition.

He is a business, and business deals with competition, THE WHOLE POINT OF COMPETITION IS TO BEAT THE OTHER PLAYERS. This goes for any company. It goes for Apple, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Roundys, etc... Google offered more space, google offered a better search system, google offered desktop indexers, etc...google offered this and that and they use a smart ad system to gain revenue from all of it. Google competes very well. Google is no diffrent than Microsoft really. Hell Microsoft has lost over 100 employs to google. Bill gates even said that Google reminded Microsoft of themselves.

OF COURSE THE WHOLE POINT OF ANY BIG BUSINESS IS TO DESTORY THE COMPETITION AND WIN.
Microsoft isn't a bad company, they were an extremely good company that did sucessfull. They are a very good company, they try and destroy competition and they are doing it well and guess what!! Thats the point. It's the point for sony, the point for apple, the point for IBM, the point for presidential elections, the point for <putpointhere>

hav you ever seen nintendo doing something like what bill gates sayd?

what I mean is that are companies that sure are more focused on create good things to sell that just beat the competence

and sure is better to a company create a very good thing to sale that just do anything possible like create hype,to beat the competition

is just my point of view

 

[VictimOfScience]

hav you ever seen nintendo doing something like what bill gates sayd?

what I mean is that are companies that sure are more focused on create good things to sell that just beat the competence

and sure is better to a company create a very good thing to sale that just do anything possible like create hype,to beat the competition

is just my point of view

QFT. I love Nintendo and always will because of this(and a bunch more, of course). And the NES/SNES are tied for Best Console Ever in my book.

 

[Cole]

"****ing Eric Schmidt is a ****ing pussy. I'm going to ****ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to ****ing kill Google." -- Stever Ballmer

lol, well hey... Google is really pissing Microsoft off.....I would love to see. Next thing you know "GooOS" The google OS. He just needs to see a shrink thats all. Like any normal CEO who is getting his business attacked non stop.

Nintendo tries to be innovative to beat Competition. They are still trying to beat Competition, and be innovative for your money. For your $$. My boss will refund\replace just about anything. I've seen him replace over $200 worth of items before. Why? Simple, while thats $200 if you replace them the person will probably keep shoping there and in the long run replacing them gets you the most money.
As you can see, just about all companies are looking for profit. Not all of course. You then include fund raisers and things.
Anyway, companies want $$, many companies just take diffrent routes to get it.

Anyway I couldn't exactly understand your sentence RJMC.,

 

[Absinthe]

Bill Gates is a dumbass

Yes, a man who started up one of the most successful companies to ever exist and makes millions is a dumbass.
That he has a slight ego issue regarding his console would be more apt. But who doesn't?

And Steve Balmer is a hardcore GOD. Do not taint me with your blasphemy!

As for his conversation with Mark Lucovsky, it's his word against Balmer's regarding the accuracy of account. But I love him even more if it's true.

 

[VictimOfScience]

And Steve Balmer is a hardcore GOD. Do not taint me with your blasphemy!

You poor thing! You must have been at the Developers!Developers!Developers!Developers!Developers!Developers!Developers! meeting and been brainwashed just like the other 40,000 engineers. You will most likely need some hardcore re-wiring after that :rolling:. That guy is a hoot!

 

[Absinthe]

Balmer's crazy, but he's hardcore cool crazy! Denying his sheer awesomeness is an act of fools!

 

[VictimOfScience]

Balmer's crazy, but he's hardcore cool crazy! Denying his sheer awesomeness is an act of fools!

Be honest, is he your dad? Its okay if he is, but doesn't it get really annoying when he turns on Miami Sound Machine runs around the house on holidays yelling, "I have four words for you: I Love This Family!"

In truth, I do love him because he provides me with an almost endless amount of mirth. I can't wait to see what he does next! :cheers: