In a interview with 1UP.com, Corporate Vice President Shane Kim spilled the beans on everything from buying Bioware, when Halo 3 will ship and how Microsoft passed on Heavenly Sword.
Here Shane talks about when Halo 3 might ship and shipping it in September could end up selling more copies than the traditional ship date of NOV which has been the standard for all of Microsoft's big titles, for example:
XBOX, XBOX Live, Halo 2, XBOX 360 and Gears of war to name a few have all come out in NOV.
"We don't tell Bungie when they have to ship Halo 3. If they can get out before GTA4, they probably feel like that's better, sort of like Xbox 360 coming out before PlayStation 3."
But would Bungie and Microsoft actually ship Halo 3 outside of the November window? As Kim pointed out, they've had success shipping titles outside of November before:
"What happened in September of 2004? In September of 2004 we released Fable, Fable got big sales and then in November got big sales again," Kim said. "I just believe great titles can get the double bump and I think Halo 3 is going to be that."
Click here to read all of what Kim had to say.
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