The highly awaited Xbox One exclusive Halo 5 has a listing on Walmart.com that hints towards a release window that could scale anywhere from October to December of this year. Next to the pre-order button it states that the game should ship out on 10/01/2014. However, if you head down to the item description section of the listing it states that the game will be released in December.
“Halo 5, a Microsoft console exclusive, is a pre-release general shooter game to be released in December of 2014. More information is on the way! Check back soon!”
There has been a lot of speculation as to when Halo 5 would touch down and whether or not it would be delayed until 2015. Back in January Rob Semsey confirmed in a tweet that the Halo journey would begin in 2014.
Xbox Wire today mentioned a few 2014 titles; Halo on Xbox One not listed due to official name of the next title not announced yet.
— Rob Semsey (@RobSemsey) January 6, 2014
“Rest assured your next Halo journey WILL begin in 2014. #staycalm
Further down the listing in the Q&A section someone asks if the official name is Halo 5 and a response from the Microsoft Outreach Team was “no.” The outreach team went on to say that the official name is “Halo” and sure enough the listing itself does state Halo at the top.
It’s best to take this Walmart page with a grain of salt but in all honesty the release window for Halo, aka Halo 5 seems quite plausible. What is even more intriguing is if the release month does end up being in December it would be a Halo holiday frenzy. Though, seeing as Halo 5 is masked in a web of rumors we can’t get our hopes up just yet. Corporate VP Phil Spencer confirmed via twitter that Halo news would be coming to E3 2014.
@MarvelousJoJo Halo news will be coming at E3. 343i has a great plan in place, will be cool to share with everyone.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) February 28, 2014
The wait for more information continues and an official release date will hopefully hit our impatient ears at E3. Until then we are left to speculate and imagine all the possibilities that 343 Industries could be cooking up in what is proving to be the Halo 5 secret society.
What are your thoughts on the potential release window? Do you think it will be slated closer to the holiday season?
Source: Walmart.com