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Gaming - X360 after 2007... - View Post

Darc Requiem on 03 May 2007
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HappySqurriel said:
mrstickball said:
Darc - I agree 100% with you. The issue is that between a price drop, and easily the best holiday lineup ever (Mass Effect, Halo 3, GTA IV, Lost Odyssey, ect), sales will do very well. How well? We will see. But I do anticipate sales of 2.5m in Nov-Dec in the USA.

I agree that the XBox 360 will sell very well over the holiday period and be a very strong presence on North America for quite awhile. What I don't agree with is that the "XBox 360 has the best holiday lineup ever" because the majority of games comming out for the XBox 360 (Halo and GTA4 obviously excluded) are untested properties. I can't help but be reminded of how every XBox game that could produce a pretty screenshot was instantly considered a "Killer App" back in the day and yet most of the games turned out pretty average or bad; I just get the feeling that many of these "great" XBox 360 games are going to suffer the same fate.


They are new IPs for AAA developers. This isn't like Sony fans touting Killzone 2 when the prior title wasn't all that great. Bioware has consistently made top notch titles. Silicon Knights are the makers of the original Legacy of Kain in addition to Eternal Darkness. Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are from the man that created Final Fantasy. The REAL Final Fantasy titles. Not the dumbed interactive movie titles that Kitase and Nomura produced, but Final Fantasy 1-6 and 9. They had the gameplay as well as the storyline. So while a good deal of the 360's holiday lineup is full of new IPs, they are new IPs from proven development teams.