Solid_Raiden said:
That's a lot of assumption going on in one sentence. MW2 isn't even through selling yet and is already on it's way to outselling Halo 3 on the 360 and you are also assuming that Reach outsells Halo 3 itself. I don't see how it's unfair to count the ps3 copies of MW against halo either. Unfair because it shows how many more people bought a game then your favorite maybe. There's no reason to gimp the sales of one game in favor of your other. If more people wanted to play halo they would have bought a 360. People who wanted to buy halo got halo and though's who wanted to buy MW2 bougt that too. The fact remains that Modern Warfare is more popular. No matter how you cut it, more people purchased it. You can't tell me that ps3 owners couldn't buy a 360 and halo if they had wanted to. Next are we going to gimp Mario sales because the wii has sold so much? Tipical Selnor response though. |
What if theres system A with 10M units sold and System B with 20M units sold.
Then game A comes out exclusive to system A with 8M units sold.
Then game B comes out multiplatform and it sells 5M units on system A and 6M units on system for a total of 13M
Is it fair to say that game B considerably outperformed game A when the total sales of game B exceed the total console sales and therefore total possible sales of game/console A?
Anyway whilst its not that extreme you have to consider the variables. Theres no doubt that Halo 3 is a bigger game on the Xbox 360 thus far and its therefore the single biggest FPS game on any single platform. Modern Warfare is just a bigger game overall. Also consider that popularity is a factor of attach rates as well. Halo 3 is something like 25% attach rate and its therefore more popular on a single audience than MW2 is overall.
