Halo: The Master Chief Collection takes up an entire 45GB Blu-ray disc and will require an additional 20GB day one update. It’s available for pre-order on Amazon and pre-download right now.
An update on the Xbox Wire today stated that the remastered collection takes up “almost all of the usable space of a single Blu-ray”. It also confirmed that episodic co-op campaign Spartans Ops is now being pushed back until December.
“Yes, the update is large, but we weren’t about to cut corners to save disc space,” writes 343 industries. “This ensures that you are getting every bit of Halo goodness we can fit in. Our work is not done, however, as we continue to tune, tweak and optimize the online experience to ensure a smooth multiplayer launch. This will continue right up until launch day.”
The post went on to confirm that whilst the reality of worldwide sales makes “simultaneous launches challenging”, Xbox heard fan disappointment “loud and clear” and has (almost) unified a global release on November 11.
Belgium, Japan and France will see releases on November 12, 13 and 14 respectively owing to public holidays and “typical” release schedules.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection contains four complete Halo games, every multiplayer map ever released (including DLC from console and PC) and a complete remastering of Halo 2. The collection’s topped off with new audio, “mind-blowing cinematics” and a “revolutionary” new user interface
Am I the only one that finds this unacceptable? In most places, this download would take a few hours. And you can only pre-download it if you have the digital version, so physical disk buyers have to wait until they get the actual game to download it.
And honestly David, if you want to say a series is dead, look at the call of duty series, they have released a call of duty game once a year for the last 11 years where as the halo series has seen a new release at least 2 to 3 years apart. If any series should be dead, its call of duty.
Also on the fact of americans with bad internet, I live on the east cost of the US and have 100 Mbps download with 20-30 Mbps upload.
But you have you looked at the amount of players online daily on Halo 3, Reach, and 4? Compared to Call Of Duty MW2, MW3, BO1, BO2, and Ghost?
Halo IS dying. It used to be my favorite game series in the world but, the last two Halos were not the Halo I grew up on and many people feel the same.
I think a 20GB update is way out of line. We’re talking essentially about 2 or three entire game downloads simply because they couldn’t put it on a disk properly. This is gonna take forever to download. Don’t have a choice since I preordered, but knowing that now I’m really really tempted just to cancel the order and get my money back. Bunch of crap.
But you can still play the game while the update is downloading. I understand that you think 343 was way out of line, but they said themselves that they didnt want to cut corners and try to make everything fit onto one disc. If they had released it on 2 discs instead it would cost more and you would constantly have to switch between discs to play multiplayer and campaign. And I am almost positive that that is not what anybody would want. The blu ray dual layer disc can only hold 50 GB.
Tbh im probably going to wait to im more going to be playing call of duty then when I finish ill go to halo because unlock call of duty anyone can just hop on any day and be good(by that I mean theres no special attachments or guns that arnt already unlocked in the beginning that you need to earn like call of duty)!
Off topic but someone here might be able to help—>Hypothetically speaking, for a research paper and a school project for my friend, if someone where to flash drive their xbox slim using Benquick and a ck3 probe, after they download using the proper software and they wanted to burn it to a disc…would any xbox be able to play that disc? or would it only be other flashdrived Xbox’s? Or just that particular xbox with which you extracted the key for that disc? Someone please enlighten me. My friend would be much obliged! -D
