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Darth Tigris on 12 December 2009
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Carl2291 said:
Darth Tigris said:
Ok . . . I get that there are some people that hate Halo's popularity as much as they hate Halle Berry's beauty, but that doesn't change anything. Halo: Reach will be the single biggest game of next year. This is not Halo 3. This is bigger. It will have a push unlike anything you've seen that'll start this coming Sunday. It is selling to a MUCH larger install base (remember, Halo 3 sold at launch to what was at the time 53% of the 360 install base). And the games that are in the OP just . . . they're just not in the same league in SALES POPULARITY. Whether you like the series or not, its huge and this will be the biggest one yet.

The only game that could conceivably come close is GT5, but that's only in comparison to GT1-4 which sold to MUCH higher install bases on the PS1 and PS2. The PS3 install base hasn't embraced the series at the same rate (GT5:P is just over 4 million in almost 2 years).

daveJ . . . . . . . . . you know, never mind. Why even bother.

Red - Maybe... As it's been said, there are many games that could outsell it.

Blue - Install bases dont really matter much, as has already been proven with a number of games (Most notably MGS4)

Green - GT5... Prologue. That's like saying Halo has gone down in poplularity since Halo Wars and ODST haven't sold as well as Halo 3. (And a small addition, GT5:P is the highest selling "Prologue" of the series.)

RE: Red - Sorry, I meant that as an opinion, not fact.  But I thoroughly believe it will be.  I was an idiot and thought that Pachter saying MW2 would sell 10 million this holiday was retarded, but I failed to acknowledge how powerful of a franchise that is THIS GEN.  Halo as well has proven that it is a VERY powerful franchise THIS GEN.  In fact, with the exception of the Wii games that haven't necessarily been 'franchised', CoD:MW, Halo and GTA are THE mega franchises.  So when one of those comes out during any year, it deservedly gets a pass.  I stand by it even before the first look in 2 days.

RE: Blue - I'm sorry, but I can't by into install bases not mattering.  Console makers have for too long promoted the importance of an install base and math tells you that the more consoles there are out there then the more potential software purchasers you have out there to promote to.  2nd and 3rd place consoles typically haven't had a lot of software that sells 9 million+ (. . . isn't the 360 the first one?). 

RE: Green - True, but its all we have to go by right now.  That and the reality that the PS3 currently has only ONE game that has sold over 5 million and it is a previous PS powerhouse franchise that has sold just over half of its worse selling counterpart from last gen (sorry, that was a mess of a sentence).  And, while GT is a powerhouse franchise as well, previous version did get a number of sales from being a pack-in and that's something that Halo hasn't ever really been in a significant way, particularly not this gen.

BTW, I like the color coded response format.  You should patent that!