Not a fan of that idea. Still would prefer them to work on towards their console audience.
Either way, they need to figure something out.
Well Microsoft being a software company with this push for PC/Xbox Console, it would be in their best interest to broaden the customer base that's shrinking for these IP's they own.
How many more sales of MCC do you think will sell after they do this update and probably work on a Xbox One X patch?
Being able to bring the whole suit over to another platform that plays well with their existing infrastructure is a win win. Imagine all the creation stuff they could do for maps with Forge and share them across xbox live for both platforms?
I think that would be cool.
I still think it's great they have at least acknowledged that they dropped the ball with Halo in general and want to put out a olive branch to existing customers/fans.
I think it's a step in the right direction, even though it's super late.
Only time will tell on what they do and how the community reacts to it for now.
Update: I had a thought about why this kind of came out of the blue, and seriously if their big push and reasoning is MS wanting to get them to get a 4k update out for MCC then I actually think it's a little shitty to original owners of MCC.
Mainly because if Xbox One X didn't exist and have MS pushing it so hard this fall, would they have still gone and tried to patch/rework it?