Reasonable said:
I'm always unsure about this claim really - what do you mean by masses? Half Life on PC sold I believe at least 8 million by 2004 while Halo had sold around 5 million by 2005. Halo definately brought FPS to console in a big way, no doubt about it, but I struggle that a title that sold less than other titles on PC somehow popularised the genre in general. If over 8 million people bought Half Life wouldn't you say HL brought FPS to more of the masses? I guess you could argue console players were more "general" than PC players but TBH the original Xbox mainly sold to people wanting a PC experience and not traditional console owners anyway - i.e. the same demographic as Half Life. Ah hell it was sure fire popular but I always feel it gets overpraised for certain stuff that PC titles were exceeding, from sales to online support. |
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