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|_emmiwinks said:
halogamer1989 said:
Halo 3PS, Halo Wars, Alan Wake, FFXIII, Gears 2, Gears 3, Mass Effect 2, Call of Duty World at War, COD6 + Netflix, XBLA, XNA Community Games--I cannot stress this enough--and a whole lot more. I believe it will peak in 2010.

 

Halo Wars wont sell, it has two things going against it, one its an RTS on a console, and they dont sell well on consoles, second its based off a game that is popular because of its gameplay, as a FPS, which Halo Wars is not.

You're probably right that it won't get the kind of sales that the main series is used to, but it will easily get to a million, possibly two,  just on the strength of the name.

FFXIII is exclusive to Sony in Japan, where the FF series sells like nuts, and Sony's install base is basically identicle in Europe so sales should be split there, in America I think there are more people that bought PS3's in anticipation for FFXIII then most people give credit for. Of course they bought those PS3's before SE gave a port to the 360.

Gears 3 is rumored to not be published by MS and I would be utterly shocked if it doesnt go multiplat, especially if Epic goes through EA's partners program.

Given MS' policy of paying to secure exclusives I don't see how you can realistically expect them to let one of their biggest franchises go multi. Gears will never see the light of day on the PS3.

COD:WaW is Multiplat, so is COD5. (not 6, that hasnt been announced yet, though it would not be made by Infinityward, so I dont care either way)

XBL and PSN are virtually identicle now and PSN is free.

He said XBLA, not Xbox Live, as in the downloadable games.

Alan Wake still doesnt have a release date and the last news out of the developer was "We hit some snags".

Way to cherry pick the quote, the full thing said that development was still progressing despite them hitting some snags.

Halo's 3rd person shooter has a decent chance, but I still doubt it will pull alot of those FPS players from Halo 3.

Mass Effect 2 will be published by EA, and if the rumors are true Mass Effect will hit the PS3 next year and ME2 will be multiplat, but I dont know about those rumors.

Those rumors were started by PS3 fanboys, neither EA nor Bioware has said anything yet.  All else is pure speculation.

You do have the XNA and Netflix thing right, good thing you have to pay for those on top of the XBLA charge.

Personally, I think either the 360 will barely break last years numbers, or fall short slightly, making last year the year it peaked.

 

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