[Halo 3 (and possible wars and reach?) port to PC?]

Cost > Profit is not accurate. The compiled format in which the game is spit out by tool.exe is derived and processed on the PC platform. Therefore making it automatically compatible with the DirectX codebase for whatever target platform they want. The real time and issue comes from making it open ended via a HEK (Halo editing Kit). This is where the time and resources come in mostly.

 

To make it a full HEK every bit of the game has to be decompiled and interchanged to a standard format capable of being reproduced by an installed consumer version of the tool-set.

 

By my estimate it would take no longer than 6.5 months to completely recompile the entire source and have it ready for tool usage. Add maybe an additional 4 months for secondary items like networking, Live etc...

 

The total cost in man hours would roughly come to $1,512,000.00 Now that is assuming they use the max needed team of about 42 employees for a full year at industry standard pay. It could be far less depending on the contract with a secondary studio or less team members. But the cost does not outway the profit on that one. Even though Halo 3 sold a lot of copies in it's time, there is roughly still about 47% of the PC gaming population that has not played anything past Halo 2.

that 1.5 million dollar is nothing for Microsoft since they spend roughly 1 billion to advertise windows 8...

[what are your favourite moments in halo]

the moment 2 scarabs came in the level ''The covenant''

it was really fun defeating them together the first time with my little brother.

and also the cutscene in the level the storm after the gate to the ark was opened, that was just pure awesomeness

[Halo 3 (and possible wars and reach?) port to PC?]

still hoping it will be for pc :/

[Halo 3 - A future PC port?]

i would love it to have a halo 3 pc port, i bought Halo CE and 2 also for the pc and they were awesome games, i dont know why people think they were one of the worst ports ever but i think they were pretty good (and i played halo 2 hundreds of time on my old xbox)

 

my xbox 360 died years ago, and my brothers decided to buy a ps3 (worst decision ever) and i'm getting nostalgia now of halo

imagine all the possibilities of halo 3 on pc.

i would be so happy to play halo 3 again (don't ask me why i dont just buy a xbox)