343 Industries is definitely taking its sweet time optimizing Halo Infinite.
The latest Halo game was initially planned to release alongside the Xbox Series S/X in late 2021. However, the negative player feedback from earlier tests forced Microsoft and the game's development studio to delay the title for almost a year, so that its kinks could all be worked out.
Just in case you missed it, 343 recently held a technical test for Infinite. For those who are wondering what a technical test is, 343 refers to it as the point in development between the Alpha and Beta stages.
343 chose to refer to everyone's first proper look at Infinite as a technical test because the game is much further along than Alpha, but isn't complete enough to be considered a Beta version.
Regardless of whatever 343 wants to call it, one way of describing the first Infinite technical test is that it's been a success.
Now, Brian Jarrard hopes that 343 can do at least one more.