yo_john117 said:
Cross-X said:
Considering how fast MW2 outsold Halo 3, that was when I thought MW2 is the biggest FPS game on X360. Now back then this was when we had little information on Black Ops and many thought it's Treyarch so pretty it's gonna be an average CoD and nothing compared to MW2.
Now we fast forward to the present day and we see Black Ops outpacing both Halo Reach and MW2 in pre orders and now I think it has a chance of 10 Mil on X360 alone. I'm not gonna say that Black Ops will outsell MW2 yet because I still believe that COD Sales have peaked because of MW2 but we'll see.
And I'm quite suprised actually that there are still more MW2 players than Halo Reach Players online... Didn't quite expect that at all. I thought Reach would be king till at least until Black Ops released.
One of my best friends in America has changed as well. Even up until the release of Halo ODST last year, he was all like "Halo 4 Life!!!" and would talk about how much he loved the Firefights in ODST... That was all until MW2 came out. He changed completely from a Halo fan to a CoD fan. I asked him back in Feb 2010 why he was still playing MW2 when Mass Effect 2 was out and he was like wtf is Mass Effect 2? Not long ago I asked how is Halo Reach (I surely assumed he got it) but he said he didn't get it and saving that money for Black Ops... Yep for him, MW2 was enough to completely change from a Halo to a CoD Fan.
Few years ago when there were talks about X360 between some friends, it used to be all about Halo 3 but now it's all about "Do you have COD?" "Late night COD session tonight over at my place".
Times have changed...
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Yeah as a strong Halo lover I have to say Black Ops looks pretty awesome (I know I hate on MW2 all the time but I really don't hate it that much)
I really don't think any Halo game will ever be the king of FPS's on the 360 ever again.
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I'd say inevitably it will become the king of fps on Xbox 360 again because Activison is more than likely to eventually shit all over Call of Duty and people will eventually get fed up with it and sales will dwindle like Guitar Hero. With Bungie leaving the helm though I'm no longer sure. 343 Industries have alot to live up to.
In my opinion if they did a Halo 4 sequel instead of Halo Reach I think it could have outsold MW2 week one. So many people I know were pissed of that Bungie were making a prequel where you don't play as Master Chief. To be honest I never thought of Master Chief much as a character but while playing Reach's campaign I was really hoping there would be a fight scene with him and my final ideal armory setup will resemble Mark VI Master Chief as much as possible. I already bought his voice for firefight.
Halo is far from dead, it's more popular than ever.
