damndl0ser said:
Once Reach is released you can count on Halo 3's sales dropping off a cliff. It would be like people purchasing Halo 2 when halo 3 was out. Not really much incentive really because everyone will be in the new game. ODST never gave anyone the incentive to stop playing h3. |
Fair enough but that still doens't give a full justification as to why some people think it'll sell 15 mil, even more than Halo 3. Let's assume that Halo 3 reaches 11.5 mil by the time Reach is released. Even after the release of Reach, Halo 3 continues to sell so it reaches 12 mil. So some people are saying that Reach will sell more copies than Halo 3 in 2 yrs or how long it ever takes for Reach to sell 15 mil?! That's VERY highly unlikely to happen.
Yes Bungie is developing Reach. Yes they're making it from a new engine. Yes they're probably going to introduce new gameplay. Yes the book might've been good. But all that ain't gonna prove that Reach would sell 15 mil. I truly believe that no 360 game will sell outsell Halo 3. I said this previously in a different topic. Not even a Halo game can kill Halo 3 in sales.
And don't get the impression that I said that because of the way ODST is selling. ODST doesn't even belong in this argument. No one can really say that Reach won't sell a lot because of how ODST is going because most people would know that ODST was just a simple 'expansion' and Reach I presume would turn out to be a full game that's worth the $60.
