Well you can argue that it’s exactly what they’re thinking with comments recently from Microsoft saying that one Halo game every three years is not frequent enough.

Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Game Studios Phil Spencer told IGN that, “There’s no explicit strategy that says we’re to ship a Halo game every year. I will say I think one Halo game every three years — which was kind of our old cadence – is probably not frequent enough.”

343 Industries is apparently going to be tasked with coming up with a new strategy for Halo and how frequently we see a Halo title.  Could you stand more Masterchief per year?  You can check out more of what Phil has to say after the break.

“I’ll just, again, be honest as a gamer. I used to look at annual releases of non-sports games as people just trying to milk me. I figured nobody had enough time to do a good job, and all of the negatives that we would associate with those kinds of scenarios. Kudos to Activision because they’ve done a good job building a good game, continuing to release each year and I think the fans feel like it’s a good thing that they do that. I think there are some things to learn, some positives and some opportunities, in what they do with that. Obviously they’ve kept the quality extremely high, which I think is important.”

“We have some unique challenges and opportunities with Halo because it is a story based game built around a certain set of characters, which is a bit different than what they do with Call of Duty. Not better or worse, it’s just different. But watching them and seeing what they do — we take inspiration from a lot of places — but obviously they’re a big success.”

If Halo moved to a yearly title, do you expect the quality to suffer?  If they’re looking to the Call of Duty series as some sort of inspiration then perhaps other studios will eventually get to create games based on Halo.

What say you about yearly Halo titles?