Halo:Combat Evolved vs Super Mario 64 vs Soul Calibur. The Rating Game.

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fleischr said:

sales2099 said:
Halo, but for reasons other then the obvious one that I love Halo.

Xbox was a newcomer and it needed a game to prove it was a contender. Halo was that game. Mario 64 was allready established as Nintendo's go-to IP. People knew what Nintendo and Mario were all about where as Halo shaped Xbox's identity overnight.

Very true.

Objective non-troll question, if the Xbox only launched with Halo and only one other game, would the game and the console itself achieved the same critical success? Because that is the situation that was carved out for the N64. Only 2 launch games!

I'd think so. No matter what XBox had numerically at launch, Halo would have taken the spotlight regardless.