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BenVTrigger on 16 April 2011
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Yakuzaice said:
BenVTrigger said:

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.

Why do you keep saying only Black Ops has managed such high sales, and then ignore the fact that Halo 3 is far ahead of all the other Halo games?  CoD4 outsold every Halo game besides 3.  Modern Warfare 2 is 1 million above Halo 3.  Now obviously Reach is going to keep selling, but it's not like Black Ops is some anomaly.

Also you mentioned that being multiplatform gives Call of Duty more exposure.  Does that mean you think a 360 exclusive would sell less than the 360 version of a multiplatform CoD?  Would those 10 plus million people just not be interested in a 360 only Call of Duty?

No the answer is obvious.  Black Ops pwns Halo 3 and Reach on 360.  That is all.  I've never debated that. Black Ops and Call of Duty have managed something Halo has never done.  That being said when looking at THE OVERALL GENERATION Halo on individual platforms has hung with Call of Duty.

I'm just not so sure COD will continue to grow I think its hit its max and the next Call of Duty and Halo ON INDIVIDUAL PLATFORMS will be much closer again.  Activision themselves said they believe there will be a dip in the next COD, while Reach is outselling Halo 3 in a comparable time frame.  In other words I think Black Ops was the big hooah for COD and has proven it IS number one.  I never debated that.  What I did debate was the claim that per console COD pwns Halo, cause quite frankly thats false.

I never meant to put this into a COD vs Halo thread, discussing games isn't such a serious business you know.