erikers on 09 October 2007
| Dodece said: I found a flaw in the logic. Halo is not a console only brand. The first two games are available on the PC. Which could easily account for a million sales combined at this point easily. The original Halo sells for twenty dollars on average on the PC. The writer is taking certain liberties with the numbers by doing the math themselves. While the number is possible most would argue it is not plausible. That said there is a strange psychology at work in hype. I refer to it as the pack mentality, or the me too mindset. Which will spur on sales of items even though the buyer might not have a real appreciation of them. I have seen it too many times with too many different things to discount it. Remember all those people that bought the death of Superman comic, or the people that bought a first edition Harry Potter book. How about all those people that had to have a beanie baby even though they had no real interest other then saying they had one. |
Just for the record,that's not a flaw in logic. This is what this site has for Halo 1 and 2 only on Xbox. Halo = 6.43 million Halo 2 = 8.29. If you add those together you get 14.72 million. That is EXACTLY what microsoft themselves said both games have sold and is what the article uses. Let's say Halo 3 is "only" at 4.5 million worldwide when this weeks numbers are out. Are you trying to say Halo 1 and 2 only sold 700k units combined on PC? I would almost guarantee they aren't adding in PC sales in it.
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