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jarrod on 05 December 2009
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AE101 said:
jarrod said:
I think there's issues of scale here. Frankly it doesn't make sense to me when someone says Halo Reach won't be a "system seller", then in the next breath say FFXIII will be a "sysetm seller" in Japan when the reality is FFXIII's JP hardware bump will probably be less than Reach's US hardware bump.

No it won't...and that's exactly the point. The first game of an established BIG IP releasing on a new generation of consoles almost always moves hardware, Halo Reach doesn't qualify. That's why people are saying GT5 and FF13 will sell systems. The 360 has no games left like this, hence why it has no system sellers left.

Halo ODST did absoloutely nothing to boost hardware, any hardware affects Halo had went out the window with Halo 3.

My problem with FFXIII (besides being multiplatform) and GT5 is that these games have been pushed and teased since even before launch.  With all the demos, all the prologues, all the coverage, all the trailers, all the built up and extended hype (for literally YEARS now), I think a lot of system purchases have already taken place for these games.  If it were still 2007 or something, then yeah there'd a be a gigantic impact.  Now though, I think that's impact's been softened.

ODST was also an expansion of H3, I'm not sure you can compare it to Reach really.  I don't think Reach will put up insane numbers or anything, but it'll definitely push hardware to a greater degree than ODST did.