Let's talk about Microsoft's shooters.

[blue-lady]

Onyxmeth said:

blue-lady said:

I have alluded to this in thread's before, but it strikes me that for the first time Microsoft will not have a large, decisive shooter out for the Christmas period based on the information available to us.

So far the console's life has looked like this:

-2005: Perfect Dark Zero

-2006: Gears of War

-2007: Halo 3

-2008: Gears of War 2

But in 2009, the only shooter who's existence we are aware of is the Halo 3 expansion ODST.  As great as I'm sure this new single-player campaign will be, it is extremely unlikely to develop the sort of system-selling and promoting hype the other shooters have.

So what, if anything, do you believe Microsoft has planned?

Do you perhaps believe they feel the shooter market is saturated and that they can make do with ODST and multiplatform shooters?

Or do you feel that they have a large shooter planned?  Perhaps a true Perfect Dark sequel?

So you don't think Halo 3 ODST is going to outsell the 1.47 million Perfect Dark Zero sold? You seem to be ok with calling PDZ a "large, decisive shooter" so you must feel ODST will perform worse, correct?

I can't get on that boat buddy. Halo 3 ODST will be 3 million bare minimum, which is double the sales of PDZ. I will guarantee you it performs better critically also, which leaves you with no further leg to stand on argumentively if you agree with my two assumptions.

Also isn't Halo 3 ODST a standalone expansion?

You're missing the point.  Of course Halo ODST will outsell PDZ, I also agree it is likely to do better critically.  But it is an expansion title at a budget price.  It simply on its own doesnt offer the console definition that we have seen the previous four holidays.

I am not for a moment suggesting that the Xbox 360 will flounder if another large exclusive shooter isn't announced.  Once you look past the Killzone 2 hype currently dominating the boards, the Xbox 360 easily matches the PS3 in terms of this year's line-up.

I'm merely wondering if Microsoft mightn't like another shooter in their repertoir this holiday season to match previous efforts.