4 Xbox360 EXCLUSIVES games revealed :

[Reasonable]

rocketpig said:

Reasonable said:
Those games are good but expected, and IMHO only GOW has a 'slim' chance of pushing more consoles. Everyone else interested in those titles is already going to have a console. MS needs something to combat the fact that GT (for example) will drive additional sales in Japan (massive upsets excepting).

Is say GOW is slim because I think the additional consoles sold on back of Halo 3 would include the uplift needed to cover GOW2.

I think GeOW2 has a great chance of pushing consoles. Why? Because it's the best damned shooter the 360 has yet, and that's saying something.

I went throught GoW just a bit ago and I went through H3 just a bit after.

I love H3 for its story but not much else. Give a pop-n-cap monkey like myself the Gears gameplay any day of the week. Add in a bit of new story and a whole lot of advertising and you got yourself another million consoles sold. 

 

GOW is a great shooter, and more original than Halo IMO.  My point is I'm sure that given GOW with around 4M and Halo 3 at 8M Halo 3 gained the majority of the new purchasers who would also purchase for GOW2.  I really don't believe there is enough big shooter fans out there who now, in the wake of GOW and Halo 3 don't have a 360 already.

I'm also speaking in relation to the PS3.  I don't know if MGS will sell a single console, but I do believe that compared to GOW2 in relation to install base it has a much higher statistical chance of selling more consoles.

The problem (in a way) with having a title that has around 50% of owners buying it and sells like Halo 3 is that once it pulls in a lot of new purchasers its hard for anything else to deliver as much of a surge.