The community of Halo in the last few weeks it is in total turmoil. It all started with the request a 343 Industries by fans, worried about the success of the title, of abandon the Xbox One version di Halo Infinite, a title currently still under development. Request that seemed to have been heard by the American company with the search for a UI Art Lead for the design of the title for Xbox Series X / S and PC only, but that instead it seems to have been just a misunderstanding.
Many were pleased with the possible cancellation for the last-gen Xbox One and Xbox One X version of Halo Infinite, but so far that rumor has been promptly hushed up by John Junyszeck, Community Manager for 343 Industries, who in the last few hours replied to a tweet, the latter deleted by the same user, regarding this very question, saying: “No. Please let me enjoy the holidays ”.
https://twitter.com/Unyshek/status/1341435348648247296
Over the course of this year, several rumors have gossiped about both a postponed release in 2022 and a cancellation of the last-gen version for Halo Infinite. In fact, in August John Junyszek was forced to patch the rumors with a post on Twitter in which he said: "At the moment there is no type of change inherent to the game, nor a release scheduled for 2022 or a cancellation of the game. on the Xbox One console. " The community was happy with the denial, only to then desire the cancellation of this version for a better work managed exclusively for next-gen.
After continuous rumors followed by denials, all imputed by the postponements that Halo Infinite had, the development of this new chapter of the Halo saga is proving to be really troubled and the lack of official communications regarding certain misunderstandings increases speculation and the murmur of speculation by the fan-base and by all those who are sincerely concerned about the success or failure of this long-awaited title from Microsoft.