Home... September 25?

[white devil]

ssj12 said:

white devil said:

ssj12 said:

white devil said:
Why would they release on the one day nobody would use it?

PS3 owners would, I rightly dont give a damn about Halo 3... so doesnt a large part of the gaming user base on the PS3/PS2/GC/DS/PSP/Wii.

Perhaps that wasn't the best way to phrase it. Let me put it another way. When the news media, gaming and mainstream alike, is talking about how huge Halo 3 is, Home will only be a sidenote on most people's minds. You can argue all you want on this point, but it will be fact. I'm sure most ppl remember the Halo 2 launch and how that was. It's just a terrible idea to release something like Home, that isn't even a game, against Halo 3 because everybody will be fixated on Halo 3.

but wasnt that effect mainly on all games that were on the original xbox.. I went to the midnight launch with a friend for Halo 2, awesome party at EB btw, it was mainly the other games being released for the 25th on the xbox that were forgotten, the PS2/GC game sales suffered but sold better then the other xbox games did that day. So launching Home would just make it so that people dont use it for a day or two as it not being a game and being offered for free on all PS3s will make it so that it does gain avatars/players as its free.

My point was not about sales, but the hype potential. Why put up a relatively anticipated update(would update be the right word to describe it?) against a mega hype machine like Halo 3, when you can do it sometime before or after where Sony will get far notice and maybe more interest?