In a recent interview with the Independent, 343's Scott Warner discussed the "careful balancing act" required by the studio as they contemplate creating Halo 5 for the next generation Xbox.
When questioned as to whether the studio would have carte blanche to create something special for the next Xbox, Warner said: "As things develop, we have the advantage of working for a publisher and first party development, and if things happen we would certainly want to take advantage of those things."
He then added: "There's always kind of a careful balancing act between what you decide to improve upon, what you have that you think is really good, what's the great mixture of that to put you in the best position to be successful as a team."
"But certainly as things go on in development we have an advantage in the sense that we can cross those streams a bit."
When asked if 343 were looking to kick some ass with Halo 5, he said: "Yeah absolutely, that's one of the great advantages of working at a place like Microsoft."