If the X1 does not pass the Wii U by the end of this year, will you be shocked?

[Chris Hu]

DialgaMarine said:

Chris Hu said:

DialgaMarine said:
Not really, considering 2 of Nintendo's biggest franchises will have released by year's end, while M$ doesn't really have any big exclusives on the cards beyond a potential Halo 2 remake. I sincerely doubt that'll sell consoles. Halo: CEA certainly didn't..

You seem to forget that the first Halo was never as big and popular as the second one since it orginally didn't feature a online mode.  Halo 2 became hugely popular due to its online mode even when Halo 3 got released there where still millions of people playing Halo 2 online.

 Ok? That doesn't mean millions of people are going to run out and buy a $500 piece of hardware just to replay a game that, chances are, they already own. You forget, Halo 2 didn't do that much better than Halo 1, considering both sold well over 8 million copies. Yet, Halo CEA still had to claw it's way just to break 1 million sales. Remasters don't sell anywhere near as well as some people think, even for the most popular games. 

You need to check the numbers again Halo 2 sold more then 2 million copies more then the first game and that is just on the orginial X-Box and doesn't include the PC version.  Also in term of overall popularity Halo 2 was miles ahead of the first one since it had a very popular online mode which the first one originally didn't have.