Why does Sony fail at making another mega franchise?

[mjk45]

Michael-5 said:

mjk45 said:

i remember seeing heaps of halo bundles bought one myself and the used game shelf  was full of the bundled version .

The used game shelf had bundled consoles? What?

If you meant that the used game shelf was filled with copies of Halo, then that just makes it difficult for the game to sell new.

Also the only Halo 3 bundle came out a year and a half after Halo 3 came out. Halo 3 had sold 8 million of it's 11.1 million sum in holidays 2007, without bundles.

sorry i meant the games from the bundled  consoles , but more to the point each Halo version has had less need of bundling than the one before in regards  to it's sales, but for the sake of selling consoles  it might be a different story. many people i know said getting halo when they got a Xbox or 360 was a no brainer so i imagine they would look at getting it bundled if possible  making it  important to the system whether it sold consoles or was picked up after. What seems missing here is not the fact that MS and SONY have one huge first party each , but will we get a monster hit from either party originating this gen, In regards to the two titles they both seemed to fill a void at the time of there publishing so is it a matter of geat games at the right moment for it to be replicated  or is it something else?