However, Halo 5 might be the perfect candidate for a BR mode on console. ![]() Between a lukewarm campaign hardly featuring the iconic Master Chief (2 missions, ONLY TWO OF THEM), and a largely P2W loot box system in its shiny new Warzone mode, the game turned a lot of people off. Long awaited, heavily hyped, and highly marketed, Microsoft was counting on 343’s second Halo game to light the world on fire. Halo 5 was supposed to be a massive console seller. They caught their white whale, but might they still be sitting on a better option? During their E3 conference in June of 2017, Microsoft announced they partnered with Bluehole to bring PUBG to console exclusively. ![]() However, during all this, one major player in the gaming space wanted in on the BR genre badly, and made a big play to do so. GTA Online released a BR mode (motor wars), while Fortnite quickly released (and very successfully iterated and updated) their own BR mode for free – beating PUBG to console, and very quickly garnering millions of players. As PUBG continued to sell copies and dole out chicken dinners, several other developers chose to try for a piece of the BR pie. The game, which released into early access on March 27th, 2017, sold over 15 million copies by year-end. Battle Royale (BR) games took off with the release and subsequent exponential growth of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds ( PUBG). The gaming industry saw an explosion in a particular genre in the year of 2017.
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