txrattlesnake said:
Mendicate Bias said:
txrattlesnake said:
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.
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Bungie said Halo 3 was the end of that story arc for the Master Chief, which it was, not the end of Halo. And if you think the MC is the only big character in the Halo universe then you know nothing of Halo. People have already proved you wrong in the preceding posts so instead of reiterate what they said how about we make a bet? I bet you that Halo 3:ODST well sell more than 3 million by the end of 2009. Are you willing to take that bet? After all your an 'expert' on media trends so you should easily win this bet.
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I would be more willing to bet it won't move 3 million more consoles to people that haven't already bought a Halo game. Sure, old Halo fans will buy it. But, if you haven't bought any Halo games before, I don't think anyone will be compelled to do so for ODST or Reach.
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Wait I thought you said the Halo brand was dying and that expansions won't sell that well, so why won't you take the bet? There is no single game this generation that can move 3 million consoles except wii sports so thats an ignorant statement. And how do you know Halo: Reach won't sell consoles, do you know anything about the game? Please person that can see into the future tell me all about this game you know so much about.
