How much will Halo 4 sell?

[Slimebeast]

kowenicki said:

Slimebeast said:

crissindahouse said:

Slimebeast said:
Absolutely no chance to beat Halo 3 lifetime (as games become ever more frontloaded 1st week sales are a different thing. I don't care.). Anybody who thinks this can outsell Halo 3 is fooling himself.

First we have the generation effect. It comes very late in a generation.

Then we have the competition (which I think is the reason for the slight downward trend of Halo games). Call of Duty will steal more sales from Halo 4 than what it did from Halo 3.

And thirdly, while the game looks graphically very nice (but so does the competition) I see no other reasons for it to be perceived as better than Halo 3. It's impossible to beat that 94% Meta of Halo 3 (for comparison Reach got 91%).

9 million lifetime.

i was going to say halo 3 had to compete against the orange box but it seems like that didn't sell even close to what i thought...btw i did not see a downward trend yet. odst was something totally different with no real new multi-player and reach was something different as well. it could be that trend and we will see it when halo 4 will release but i don't think reach or odst are good indicators.

At least they're some indicators. Plus the Combat Evolved remake had abysmal sales which I was very disappointed in.

abysmal sales?  for a remake of a game that people could already play on the 360 due to MS actually having decent backward compatability... are you kidding me?

 

But they put lots of resources in that game. It must be the best remake ever made.

This is not stealth bashing Halo but I expected it to sell 4 million. Maybe I was naive but I wanted it to sell 4 million.
(I didn't know about the BC though. Is it also a downloadable title, the original Halo?)