Depending on the success (or otherwise) of this title, we may see RTS's find a genuine home on consoles.  Of course I don't mean this to the exclusion of the genre's existing home on PC's, but rather the games may see invigorated interest and sales in general if they find a standard to launch them on consoles.

Though I only expect Halo Wars to sell two million copies, and hope for three, what is more important is that the title is well-recieved.  By that I mean it receives generally high review scores (say eighty and above) and is well-respected amongst hardcore gamers.  I don't anticipate Halo Wars bringing RTS popularity to consoles as Halo brought FPS popularity to consoles, but I would hope for some measure of success.

i do think that rts wil be populair on consoles unless they change the way you play rts on consoles. now you simple can't be as fast on consoles like on pc. so the people who like rts will always play them on pc.

the way Endwar works is example although i think there's stil a lot to improve

Ide rather not have the RTS genre get dumbed and slowed down like halo did to FPSes. There is a reason that they are complex and difficult, it should lend to the fact they are called strategy games after all.

Given that Red Alert 3 only sold 0.19 mill while it's a proven RTS franchise, don't you think that 2 million is a bit high ?

I think this game looks mint and will sell well being a halo game, so yeah, could be important

nope there is no piracy on the x360 and Halo is nowadays populair then Red Alert 

Red Alert 3 sold 0.19 mill on xbox360, so not pirated

Although there is some pirating on 360

I wonder how much the ps3 version will sell. 100 k?

hmm wel it wil deffinitly sell better

I wonder how much the ps3 version will sell. 100 k?

Could end up more if EA supports mouse & keyboard properly

Good topic. Halo Wars is very important.

But it has to get really good reviews (+85%) to pave the way for RTS on consoles.