Could Halo Wars possibly outsell the much more hyped KZ2 in first two month

[Kantor]

blue-lady said:

Kantor said:

blue-lady said:

Kantor said:

TacoBoy49 said:
Why would Halo Wars not have long legs? Halo 2 and Halo 3 had incredibly long legs. Halo 3 is still selling like it was launched last November. MGS 4 ran out of breath after 2 short months. Halo Wars will sell for a long time also. Halo brand is evergreen like Mario.

Because it's an RTS! On a console! It could be brilliant! It still won't sell Halo FPS numbers!

@seece: Oh, really? You know that Halo Wars is an RTS because you are an educated, intelligent 360 owner. Quite a few people are not. In fact, Makingmusic was telling us that somebody walked into his GameStop and asked if you could dual wield energy swords...

People will still buy it, because it has the word "Halo" and a bunch of Spartans on the front cover, and a little bit because it's actually a damned good game, but it's sales will be hurt by the fact that it's an RTS. On a console.

I don't see what MGS4 has to do with this, to be honest. It's a niche game in a niche genre, in a niche series which happens to have ahuge fanbase. It's destined to be frontloaded. An FPS is never frontloaded. CoD4 (I know not all FPS games sell like this, but for argument's sake) on PS3 sold 450k first week. Not a bad number, not very impressive. Pretty average.

It is now sitting at over 4 million sales LTD. It shows no signs of losing steam, even when a sequel has been released. It can easily do 10x its first week sales, but it's all proportional. The higher the first week, the lower the ratio of the first week to lifetime.

So, to restate what I said earlier,

First week: Halo Wars

First month: Halo Wars

First two months: Probably Halo Wars

Lifetime: Killzone 2.

There's a chance that I'm wrong, but there's a chance that you're wrong as well.

May I ask, what reasoning are you using to suppose Killzone 2 will have such tremendous legs?

It's a AAA (God, I hate that word) war FPS with tons of blood and enemies with orange eyes. People are saying it's an improved CoD4. It's not, but if that's what people think, it's what they think.

What reasoning are you using to suppose that it won't?

EDIT: Killzone 2 will not have CoD4 legs. Seriously. It will not sell ten times its first week sales. But it will beat the first week of CoD4.

I don't think this game will have legs beyond the next six months.

It'll only last till the next big shooter.  Multiplatform or otherwise.

 

We'll see when that happens, but I strongly doubt that. If CoD:WaW couldn't cut CoD4's legs, I doubt CoDMW2 will but KZ2's legs. The next major FPS the PS3 will have (that we know of now) is Resistance 3, and that's November 2010...

Something else will probably be announced before then, though.