xbox 360 dead as a dodo

[mrstickball]

Diomedes1976 said: As for the Halo arguement I think it will be a great game but I doubt a system seller .Most Halo fans have already bought the machine anticipating it would eventually be a Halo 3 .In Europe Halo isnt that big ,and the same applies to Japan .Besides ,the X360 has a ton of very polished FPS and more on the way as Unreal 3 ,Prey 2 ,Haze (I think this one comes out also in X360 isnt it ?) and many others .....I personally dont see Halo 3 being head and shoulders over Unreal 3 or Gears of War ...specially seeing the footage we have seen right now .

IMO, I believe your wrong. According to MS, 50% of the people that own 360s did not own an Xbox. This would show there are most likely alot of Halo fans out there waiting until Nov 1st to buy a 360 + Halo 3. When Halo 2 launched, according to VG Charts, hardware sales went from 242,000 units to OVER 800,000 units in November. That is a very significant jump, as any previous year, the Xbox only did around 500k. Therefore, Halo 3 should get such a jump. Only in the US? Most likely. But between GTAIV and Halo 3, there'll probably be about 1m new adopters for those 2 games alone. The 360 doesn't have a huge killer system-moving game in the US. Worldwide, GoW and LP supposedly moved systems in Europe, and BD in Japan. Thus far even GoW didn't give the 360 a spike (except for maybe December). This shows that there is still pent-up demand for games like Halo 3 and GTAIV. The same thing went for Final Fantasy - when XII launched in Japan, sales went skyrocketing. I believe it managed to triple or quadruple sales for the week. Heck, look at VII, it's what allowed the PS1 to start on it's road to riches in the US as well.