Microsoft never planned for Halo to become its flagship title, according to Microsoft VP of game publishing Ed Fries.
"We didn't know what was going be our biggest title," Fries admits. "There was a lot of negativity around Halo, actually, mostly coming from the games press. We showed it several times publicly, and we got pretty negative feedback."
Somebody did what they called a 'color palette analysis,' and they brought me this report where they showed me that [Halo's colors], compared to typical console game colors... their assertion was that we were using all the wrong colors in the game."
Fries says that the question within Microsoft was whether Xbox owners would want to play a hardcore PC-style FPS.
"Obviously, once we launched Xbox, the game started selling like crazy and became iconic for the platform," Fries says. "But all that happened after the fact, after a lot of naysayers said it wouldn't, or couldn't."
[Thanks to oxm.co.uk]
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