Games that are overrated/underrated for console sales

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mrstickball said:
No one has mentioned Halo 2? By far, one of the biggest system sellers in the past 10 years. The Xbox, in the US was languishing in sales in the US pretty bad. Then came Halo 2. H2 souly increased sales of the Xbox from an average holiday of 500-550k, to more than 800k, while bringing the PS2 sales to its knees. The Playstation 2's sales were SEVERELY decreased YOY vs. the previoius year(s), and November was the only month that a system had dethroned the Playstation brand during a holiday season in nearly 10 years. That, my friends, is a system seller. As for Playstation, GTA, FF and DQ are all major system sellers. Blue Dragon on the 360 is/was a system seller of recent memory for the 360. Gundam Mousou was as well, but to a much lesser extent in terms of %.

Stick, this isn't about which games are the best system sellers, it's about which games are overrated/underrated as system sellers. Halo can sell systems... and everyone knows it can sell systems: thus, it's not underrated (or overrated). I think people's perception of the power of Halo is just about spot on what reality indicates to us.