pezus said:
Mazty said:
pezus said:
Mazty said:
Barozi said:
BenVTrigger said:
@ Mazty
did you honestly just try to say Halo isn't profitable and worth continuing development on.
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nah I think he just said that the 46m Halo games that were sold (over 30m this gen alone) and their hundreds of millions dollar MSmade in revenue from that doesn't matter.
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I think your site needs updating then as it puts ODST at 6 million, Halo 3 at 11 million and Reach at 9 million...
If we consider that MW2 sold, as of March 2010, over 10 million units in the US alone, well that makes Halo sales look pretty piss-poor. My point isn't that "OMG HALO SUX!" or some other nonsense, it's that this generation has shown that exclusives do not have the best sales by a very large margin.
pezus said:
Mazty said:
VicViper said:
Mazty, are you pro-sony or pro-nintendo?
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PC gamer, so I don't have any bias. I approach this from the view of an investor and an academic, not a fan.
BenVTrigger said:
@ Mazty
did you honestly just try to say Halo isn't profitable and worth continuing development on.
My god.................................we've hit a new level here folks. |
Why are you answering my questions with questions...?
And that is a lovely strawman you made. I said multiplatform titles like CoD are more successful then Halo, so will publishers want to keep exclusives exclusive? Would it be possible to put aside your bias and approach this from the view of an investor?
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MS owns the Halo franchise
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And they work on money, just like every other company in the world. Therefore if they can get more money by releasing their game on more then one console, why would they not do that?
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Because they want people to buy their system obviously. Why is this so hard to understand?
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And yet when ME3 and CoD's are released, we still see a spike in console sales, which indicates that exclusives are not needed to sell a console.
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"Not needed" but still very very important, especially you have a close competitior that gets all the same multiplatform games
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But how important? You are presuming that every Halo game bought was an incentive behind buying the console, which certainly may not be the case. If we look at this generation, what seems more important then exclusives is advertising and loyalty. One reason I suspect that the 360 still outsells the PS3 in the US is due to it being an American company and advertising. Ultimately though it comes down once again to profits. Is it more profitable to have exclusives, or is it better to have a unique feature, like a HDD or bluray? For the publisher, it looks like exclusives are a waste of time, and for Sony, bluray looks like a gamble that will pay in the long run, more so then something like MGS4.
