I en intervju med brittiska Official Xbox Magazine säger Ed Fries, mannen som var chef för Microsoft Game Studios när Xbox lanserades, att Microsoft inte alls trodde på de exempellösa framgångar Halo: Combat Evolved fick.
"You know, honestly we didn't know. I think anyone who tells you that they knew that was going to happen isn't telling the truth.", säger Fries.
Han fortsätter med att berätta att man ändå hade vissa förhoppningar på serien: "There was a small set of games we had decided to spend all of our TV money. And Halo was one of those, so that's proof it was one of the games that we decided to make a bet on."
"But honestly if you'd asked me ahead of time I'd have said we're going to sell more from Lorne Lanning, an established console developer with a continuation of an existing console franchise that had previously been successful.", avslutar han och avslöjar de ändå relativt låga förväntningarna som fanns på Halo: Combat Evolved.
