360 NEEDS new and original exclusives

[TheSteve]

txrattlesnake said:

mibuokami said:

txrattlesnake said:
I had both Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. And, I'm not speaking as a PS3 fan here. I am looking at Halo from the perspective of someone whom has a long history of observing and even degrees in media studies and Halo is losing its thunder.

Can you elaborate on your finding on the decline of the Halo brand?

Lets have a look at the fact:

Last Halo FPS is the highest selling ever in the franchise

Halo branded RTS becomes the highest selling RTS in console history

It continues to sell more copy per week than both Gears 2 and Killzone 2; two games you claim are 'superior' to Halo 3

Microsoft has just announced Reach without ODST even being released, its easily expected to be the top selling exclusive for the 360 this holiday with the only game that has a chance against it being Modern Warfare 2 and Forza 3, proving that they still believe the franchise is marketable at a lucrative level; it is merely an expansion!! ODST is like GT5P; not a complete game!

Halo ALWAYS rank as one of the top 5 games played for Live on a weekly basis

Where is the logic?

      The last Halo sold so many copies because it was only one of two reasons that people bought the system.  However, since that time many better games have come to the 360 including the likes of further games in the Gears series, Fallout 3, Bioshock, and Modern Warfare. Superior games reduce the importance of games in an  older series that aren't considered to be as good.

     Then Halo 3 was advertised as being the final Halo game.  Usually when producers cave in to the demands of the fans and give more installments in such cases franchises tend to go into a decline.

     Modern Warfare 2 (which isn't exclusive) should easily have better sales on 360 than Halo:  ODST as the Call of Duty games are now considered to be better and more popular games than the post Halo 3 Halo games.

     Prologue wasn't an expansion.  It was a demo.  Neither expansions or demos tend to sell as well as original products.

     Even Mario went through a few rough years there.  And as not being part of any real coherent story he had a much easier time making a comeback than a game in a series that is beginning to veer so far off its already established path which was Master Chief and Cortana.  

Either your logic or the way you worded it has lost me here...  "The last Halo" sold so many because it was the reason people bought 360...  "Then Halo 3" was advertised as being the last one...  (The last Halo and Halo 3 are the same game, mind you, and the only one on the 360), and well after the NEXT Halo being announced, and 3 ending with a teaser for Marathon, starring Master Chief, and now more games announced, Halo 3 is STILL selling stronger than all the games you've mentioned.  The friggin' thing is selling gangbusters, and they've kept it fresh with new maps.  I could see you speculating it running its course...  But I just cant' see anything in your posts that supports that argument in a meaningful way.