Halo creator wants a Revolution for his next game

Nintendo Revolution Canada notes that the creator of Microsoft's hit game Halo, Jason Jones, wants to write a first person shooter game for the next-generation Nintendo Revolution. Ouch, that's got to hurt, particularly since Microsoft is still smarting from short supply of XBox 360s. Next thing you know, the guy will want an Apple MacBook Pro to write it on. But you have to hand it to Jason: getting himself fired is a very clever way to void his Microsoft non-compete.

Seriously though, I am not terribly surprised. The new Nintendo Revolution controller creates a lot of new possibilities for first-person shooter games, and game writers love doing new things. I'm fairly bullish on Nintendo's low key approach to Revolution, having predicted that it will sell more units at Christmas 2006 than Microsoft will XBox 360s. Jason is just one more data point that Nintendo has a winner on the launch pad.

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