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ymeaga1n on 21 January 2009
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star_city said:
Solid_Raiden said:
I think someone is confusing hype (people hype games that will be awesome and recieve great scores, not great sales) with sales predictions. K2 is hyped to hell because it will be an increadible shooter and will probably recieve very high ratings, but no one is saying it will outsell Halo (fanboys are the exception, not the norm) which shows even by how many PS3 owners and K2 hypers are saying ODST will outsell the game. I believe that K2 will do 4 million LTD. I believe ODST will do 5-6 million LTD. However, I expect K2 to be the better game (read: for me) and I doubt I'll be buying ODST because honestly Halo 3 was one of my biggest dissapointments of this gen. It offered neat features with the gameplay recorder and Forge (I never use any) but felt like a regression for the series in general and had what was to me one of the most lackluster single player campaigns I've played (more important then MP to me). Personally, It will be difficult to keep me away from COD6 long enough to buy this and maybe that will hurt sales some? COD4 afterall has sold more copies then Halo 3 and this isn't even Halo 4 but an expansion and it's hard to believe that everyone who bought Halo 3 will buy the expansion.

ok i know your aiming that at me let me explain myself bout hype

A game with NO hype get no sales(good reviews or not) example valkyrie chronicles a game with lil to no hype with great reviews another example prince of persia no hype horrible sales....so believe me when i tell u the first halo sold off hype and not its reviews....and of course the 2nd and 3rd sold cuz of its name and it being a reliable game to buy

so HYPE has ALOT to do with sales ALOT......kz2 hype is off the scales so if it got 1/10 from ign or others it will sell cuz of the hype that surrounds it.....

 

Bullshit. Either you are out of your mind or do not know the definition of hype. (Definition: http://www.answers.com/hype)

  1. Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion: the hype surrounding the murder trial.
  2. Exaggerated or extravagant claims made especially in advertising or promotional material: “It is pure hype, a gigantic PR job” (Saturday Review).
  3. An advertising or promotional ploy: “Some restaurant owners in town are cooking up a $75,000 hype to promote New York as ‘Restaurant City, U.S.A.’” (New York).
  4. Something deliberately misleading; a deception: “[He] says that there isn't any energy crisis at all, that it's all a hype, to maintain outrageous profits for the oil companies” (Joel Oppenheimer).

I think you're mistaking anticipation with hype in Halos case. It did sell off of reviews. That's like saying Half Life sold because of hype. Halo, like HL, sould millions because it was a revolutionary acheivement in gaming. How many games nowadays take concepts halo introduced?