Matt Casamassina of IGN has reported several times that Halo could see some light on the Nintendo DS. What sounded like bogus ended up as a pitched idea from Bungie, the mastermind behind the series. Siliconera had a chat with Brian Gerard and Frank O’ Conner of Bungie, and in one part of the talk, asked a question of a possible Halo DS.

I think I’m going to ask the forbidden question… was there ever Halo for the DS?

FO: I believe we got pitched for it several times.

BG: Every once in awhile it comes up. Somebody out there some developer pitches and tries to make it happen.

Would you ever like to see that [Halo on the DS]?

FO: I mean if it wasn’t a drain on resources. The problem is the DS is not an FPS console right? It’s not an FPS handheld. There really is no such thing. If we did something cool I would like to see it. But I would rather see the Halo IP on any handheld system applied to a different genre because handhelds don’t necessarily do FPS well.

FO: Maybe a side scrolling shoot em up or whatever, but not necessarily an FPS.

We can only dream for now.