While Bungie may not exactly be at the helm of the Halo franchise anymore, that hasn't stopped the company from being quite vocal about their position in the gaming industry. As Microsoft gears up to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its online gaming network known as Xbox Live, the former Halo designers had quite a few interesting words to say about how they helped to maintain the service's success.

In quite a bold  move, Bungie Studio manager Harold Ryan went on record to say that the approach they took with Halo 2's online play completely changed the way that developer's made use of internet capability. According to them, they were the first team to really take that great multiplayer experience and work to integrate it with the service itself. In their own words, "Systems for groups and matchmaking and skill ranking were all things that were pushed the furthest and the hardest by us.”

However, maybe what was more interesting is the words made before that statement. To open the conversation, Ryan went even further by admitting ""I think Xbox Live wouldn't have made it. I don't think the Xbox would be where it is today without Bungie and without Halo." Certainly this idea does hold some water considering Halo is without question Xbox's most popular exclusive, but can it really account for all forty million members that reside on the service today? According to reports published in March, Microsoft said that gamers actually spent more time logged into entertainment services like Netflix and ESPN than they did playing games, so can one single franchise be enough to carry an entire platform? Let me know what you think in the comments section below!

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