Bungie: no official Halo DS ever existed
by Richard Mitchell 
{ Jul 19th 2007 at 12:15PM }
We really thought this rumor was good and dead, but you may have seen Halo DS rear it's ugly head once more around the internets. Luckily, our friends at Siliconera just so happened to have a little chat on the subject with Bungie at E3 last week. In addition to asking Bungie's Frank O'Connor and Brian Jarrard about whether or not we'll see any more Halo crossovers like the Spartan in Dead or Alive 4, Siliconera also asked about Halo DS. According to O'Connor, "there has never been an officially funded or sanctioned development of any sort of DS Halo game." O'Connor and Jarrard admit that Bungie has been pitched such an idea several times, and that there likely have been unsanctioned prototypes created by companies outside of Bungie. Such a prototype is probably what caused this ruckus in the first place. When asked about the future possibility of Halo on DS, the two don't rule it out entirely, but note it likely wouldn't be a first person shooter, as they don't work very well on handhelds.
So there you go. No official Halo DS exists, or ever did. Can we drop this now?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ryan @ Jul 19th 2007 12:31PM
you can run it on your iphone. brush up on those haxor skillz tho...
Tony @ Jul 19th 2007 1:50PM
It's unfortunately not going to be dropped until Matt C. at IGN stops bringing it up. Even before E3 he was pushing that it, in fact, existed and we'd see more about it soon.
I think he needs to put up or shut up, really.
incrediblebulk92 @ Jul 19th 2007 3:42PM
yea but it seems like everyone at IGN is full of BS, I watched the xmas gift guide and they actually suggested that you buy a dildo for your girlfriend... wtf?
colin @ Jul 19th 2007 4:41PM
oh yeah, i played duke nukem forever on my nintendo ds.
brentkailbourn @ Jul 19th 2007 4:54PM
there ain't no Halo DS cause Microsoft is working with Epic to put out a DS Gears of War.
Nixon @ Jul 19th 2007 8:51PM
HALO DS WIFI MULTIPLAYER! My DS Lite wants to play.
rockeranimefreak @ Jul 20th 2007 1:59AM
halo psp more feasable less likley.... since its SONY!! meh... it would be preetty cool to have halo on psp (not the homebrew game that's out there on the internets though :P its like 2d)
Boff @ Jul 20th 2007 8:11AM
I played Halo on my DS - using my 360 emulator.
I just 'copied some files off the CD'