My title is half in jest. That said, it was an odd choice to show a clearly older build when you're trying to blow away your audience and hype up the Series X release. The 1-minute gameplay trailer looked better and I'm sure the polish between now and November will get it looking much better. That said, graphics aside, nothing in that demo looked particularly exciting to me. And I'm sure there are purists who want movement to stay essentially the same as Halo CE but staying with a frankenstein movement scheme (compared to something like Destiny) is going to be tough to accept.

I think the purists are the issue. I loved the gameplay in Halo 5, but a lot of them didn’t accept it, so looks like 343 had fo bring it back. I thought it looked good yesterday. Multiplayer reveal next month will be huge, because honestly, thats what most people play.

One thing I will say is that I don’t think Microsoft cares about moving the new box that much. Yesterday was a big GamePass ad. All they care about is you playing their games, and it doesn’t matter where. That’s where these companies make their money, not on hardware.

I've never understood the lack of love for Halo. Excellent single player. Excellent multi-player.