Why Halo Reach will outsell Halo 3

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ymeaga1n said:

Are you coming out of left field? Did you read the title of this thread? Did you read my arguments? We're having a discussion about outselling HALO 3. Because I don't think Reach will outsell Halo 3 means I have beef with it?
 
Prequel argument is laughable? Oh yeah because basing an argument on historical trends and data is sooo laughable compared to your assertion that Halo Reach will outsell Halo 3 because "it's Halo".

Oh yeah...everyone has the famous friends which are going to prove their argument. Really? I'm astounded you have friends that have never bought Halo 3 (i doubt they bought any halo for that matter then right? or ever played halo?) and are all of a sudden hyped for Reach....really what are they so hyped about? Halo 3 had more hype than Reach does now and your telling me Reach, the prequel, is going to outsell the game which ended the trilogy?? That's laughable.

Really please make a list of what your non-halo3 buying friends are hyped about. I'm dying to read that. =)

Based on historical trends every mainline Halo game has increased its sales by at least 2M over the last.

Halo 1: 6.5

Halo 2: >8

Halo 3: >11

Halo: Reach >13?

Also hardcore gamers have become irrelevant to this series as it has mass market appeal the same as Call of Duty series as well. So it doesn't matter what people here say about the game, as hardcore gamers they are pretty irelevant overall to the sales of the series.

Based off everything released on Halo: Reach thus far the expectation is that its going to be an even better experience than Halo 3.

• They are going back to health + shields to bring back a sense of fear and urgency to every encounter, so it means something when the shields are low/drop.
• They are working on improving the scale and scope of the single player, coop side of the game too which was somewhat neglected in Halo 3. Coop has become more and not less important as people have migrated to 40+" screens since Halo 1/2 were released.
• The multiplayer is more than just Halo 3 rehashed, they have added a bunch of new gameplay modes, horde with matchmaking, and likely more than that which they haven't revealed yet.

Lastly, its not going up against any other epic FPS game this time around. Halo: Reach stands on its own as the only truely massive shooter release this year which is a change from 2007 which had two truely massive series releasing. This is Treyarch vs Bungie, and Bungie vs yet another modern warfare clone. Even if Sony games were releasing head to head vs Halo: Reach on the same platform it wouldn't change much.