Why does Sony fail at making another mega franchise?

[Michael-5]

mjk45 said:

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?

Post-ponning GT5's release from 2008 to 2010 definatly hurt the PS3. Halo was a trademark franchise, and was Microsoft exclusive. MS put out a good product early, and that helped sales.

However this debate is about Making a mega franchise. Bungie and Microsoft definatly made Halo a mega franchise, and almost did the same for Gears. However currently Sony has none, why, lots of possible reasons. I think the biggest is the lack of a single star game. If Sony devoted all their $$$ from Resistance and Killzone, and focused on one franchise, that franchise could be mega. Instead they wanted more titles.