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Hyruken on 18 January 2009
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BenVTrigger said:
CGI-Quality said:
Wow, the hating in here is endless. No matter, I think Halo Wars will have a better first month than Killzone 2 but LTD...Killxone 2 will outsell Halo Wars. Furthermore, EVERYBODY I know with a PS3 is buying Killzone 2 so that's at least 21 people besides myself, yes I have 21 friends in person with PS3s buying Killzone 2, right there. I still don't get all the hate for Killzone 2, but is it suprising, not in the slightest. Regardless, February 27 can't come soon enough!

 

Why is it PS3 fans read into "hate" so much more than 360 fans?

I don't see any hate in here for K2 and the only people in here saying it will be outsold are saying for brand name power alone.  In fact I see much more hate for HW than K2.  Look at all the people saying that its an RTS and that RTS don't do well on consoles / underperform.

Did you not know that if you say anything bad about the PS3 you are a hater? I know it is silly but that is how it is with some people.  It was like yesterday i bought a new car. I went to a car supermarket and planned on spending £20k max. They showed me a new Ford Focus and i had a go. The guy then asked if i wanted to buy it and i said nah i don't think its as good as the price tag suggests. The guy then said funny as a lot of people say that and he was the Ford dealer. But if you bring that normal thought into a games enviroment.....your be called a fanboy of a rival. As some guy once said "how many of the witches we burned were actually witches?!".

 

Back on topic! In all honesty i have no idea when Halo Wars is coming out, have heard nothing about it for ages, don't think they even mentioned it at last years E3? I thought it was meant to be out last year? Meaning their has been zero hype at all. Now that could be because it is an RTS game and normally they don't tend to do so well on consoles. But it has the Halo brand name so you would of thought it would be everywhere?

Where as KZ2 is the complete opposite. Been delayed a few times, was meant to come out with the PS3 if i recall? Has had a lot of hype following it from the media for a long time and has had a supposedly vast Sony budget spent on it. This is the 1st person shooter of the year, there are no Gears 3,RES3 etc..(that we know of anyway). The market shows in general people love 1st person shooters especially compared to RTS games. If Halo Wars beats Killzone 2 i think that will be a crushing blow to the Sony brand. And because of that i think KZ2 will sell more.

For me the fact it is a 1st person shooter vs a RTS game means there is no contest. History has show RTS games to do very poor sales wise on consoles. Just looking at the ones for consoles shows command and conquer 3 sold 500k in like a year, Red Alert barely made it over 150k etc.. even average shooters like Haze sold nearly 700k. I can't wait for KZ2 but if HW outsells it then that is embarasing.