Dallinor said:
BenVTrigger said:
Dallinor said:
BenVTrigger said:
Dallinor said:
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dsage01 said:
Michael-5 said:
Killzone 3 is selling well for a PS3 exclusive. If you're asking why Killzone 3 sales aren't as strong as Halo, Call of Duty, or Gears of War it's because it doesn't have as strong of a multiplayer component. Multiplayer is fun, but there is nothing really bringing you back into the game. Resident Evil 5 sold well despite having poor multiplayer because of the strong label Resident Evil 4 laid. Also Killzone doesn't have as epic of a story arc as other Sci-Fi shooters like Halo, Gears of War, or Resident Evil. The events in Killzone 3 are much more loosly tied to the events in other Killzones compared to the other mentioned sci fi shooters. So..
1. Not as addicitve multiplayer as compeditors
2. Not the king of multiplayer games, so it's forgotten quickly since everyone else is playing Call of Duty.
3. Not so massive story arc.
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Just to let you know Killzone has great multiplayer. Many people are on (possibly more than Reach as of today) And Gears 2 multiplayer was pretty bad it had many bugs and people complaining. For the Cod and Halo part I agree with you but come on we both know it deserves much more sales than the 1.4 million right now.
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DId you really just try to say that there are more people currently playing Killzone 3 than Halo Reach? Here's a stat for you real quick. Since KZ3's launch it has had 2,231,404 games played.
Just today alone Halo Reach had 2 million matches. In other words in one day Halo Reach has had nearly as many player matches as Killzone has had since the day it launched. The size of their communities and following isn't even remotley close. The only franchise in the world that can hang with Halo in terms of FPS fanbase is Call of Duty.
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To be fair COD does more than just hang with it, it's much, much bigger.
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And your point? On 360 COD isn't far bigger Black Ops has blown past Reach but every other Halo has hung pretty close to COD. Not to mention COD gets far more exposure being a multi-platform title. And are you really trying to compare two franchises that have proven track records of over 10 million units to Killzone?
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Just your wording stuck out as I was glancing through the thread, to 'hang with' would imply it's at almost the same level or at the same level I would think, when in fact that's not the case at all. COD is on a complete different level.
You were obviously comparing the two titles on one platform alone though, but that was not evident in your post.
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You obviously didn't read my edit. Black Ops is on a whole other level, however its the first game to ever do so, and Halo has outsold COD many times before.
Your wrong if your trying to say COD as a whole on 360 is on a far higher level. Halo has hung with it and outsold it every time up until now. We'll see which has higher staying power in the long run.
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This is very simple. Read the bolded.
"The only franchise in the world that can hang with Halo in terms of FPS fanbase is Call of Duty."
Halo Reach =8.21 m sold.
COD: Black OPS= 24.04 million.
Roughly triple it's numbers and it's doing this annually at the moment. By the end of this gen, COD will be the best selling series in one genration ever. I think it's at 85 million plus so far this gen.
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Again your ignoring sales in comparison to individual platforms. Halo oustsells PS3 versions of COD and hangs with or outsells the 360 version of COD in every case EXCEPT for Black Ops. One game in a series is hardly comparable to the overall sales of a franchise on a console as a whole.
And are you honestly trying to compare adding up all sales for the game on every platform and compare them to the sales of an exclusive game on one? You know my point and your just playing a game of semantics. There should have been no problem in the first place I simply commented in response to someone who claimed Killzone has a currently higher player population than Halo when they aren't even close. And of course since I said anything Pro 360 related I get jumped on.
Its honestly starting to get old for the 360 fans on here and I'm a huge PS3 fan as well but I usually don't even spend time sideing with it in discussion because the debates on this site are so unbalanced someone needs to be actually complimenting 360 stuff.
