As Xbox celebrates its 20th anniversary this Monday, November 15th, the Master Chief is celebrating that anniversary. There is a lot of speculation while on this date a lot of materials will be delivered for those who could pre-order them: the Xbox Series X Halo Infinite Edition, the controller and helmet of the 20 years, the Elite Series 2 controller in the colors of the Spartan 117 … For the last few days, however, there has been a rumor that the multiplayer from Halo infinite from this Monday and not until December 8, 2021 as planned for several months.
Where does this rumor come from
At the base of this rumor is a date that was found in data from the listing of Halo infinite in the Microsoft store.
Xbox Store data for Halo Infinite Multiplayer pic.twitter.com/HYxtEfco8M
– Adam Fairclough (@EvilBoris) November 12, 2021
Those few cards indicated a release date of November 15, 2021. This caught the attention of a few people who shared the information, including a tweet from NateTheHate, a fairly reliable insider, who claimed the release on November 15th. According to the various exchanges that took place in the past few days, Google’s tracker also indicated November 15, 2021 as the release date, without the information being officially announced by Xbox, 343 Industries or the Microsoft Store.
That rumor gained a little more momentum than Tom Warren, the newspaper’s senior editor The edge sent this tweet:
Has anyone ruined Master Chief’s birthday present?
– Tom Warren (@tomwarren) November 12, 2021
“Did someone ruin the Master Chief’s birthday present?”
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If these different elements taken together can raise questions, there is something new. The dates noted in the Microsoft Store code have changed. Failure ? Willingness to cover up? Or correction of an oversight if the originally scheduled date was November 15th a few months ago before the release was postponed to December 8th? We do not know it.
Halo Infinite multiplayer list has been updated 😆 https://t.co/aNdEYjmyIn pic.twitter.com/gyBLdMdCMv
– Lumia updates (@ALumia_Italia) November 13, 2021
In addition, 343 Industries has announced on numerous occasions its plan to release the campaign and multiplayer at the same time, although the idea of ​​separating them was suspected a little over a year ago. Second point that would make this decision incomprehensible Battlefield 2042, another FPS come out next week. However, the Xbox Series are the game’s partner consoles and EA is doing very well with Xbox, the integration of EA Play in the Game Pass as proof.
It would also be amazing if Xbox decided to release these two major productions within a week, despite the campaign being run by Halo infinite would be out in December.
Will arrive, won’t happen …
There are certain elements that may suggest that the multiplayer is from Halo infinite would arrive on November 15th, yes. However, the modification of the elements underlying the rumor seems to indicate a simple oblivion, the dates of. to change Halo infinite when the December 8 date was stopped in August. Since the 20 year date is symbolic, it is very easy to imagine that 343 Industries, Xbox and Microsoft wanted to release their iconic game on that date and originally created the dates with that date of November 15, before they put it on December have postponed.
It therefore seems impossible to us to say that the multiplayer of Halo infinite will arrive as early as November 15, 2021, and we advise everyone to stay cautious, which at this point remains a rumor with no official confirmation. Reply at 7:00 p.m. Monday night during the Xbox 20th Anniversary event.
The Halo.fr teams are also taking stock of these rumors in a video that you can find below:
