Halo: Reach will be the first 15 m seller on a single HD console (it will achieve that mark in two years after release) - Mark my words guys 
It might not. But it is going to be the best Halo yet, even for those who think Halo CE is the best.
@ Garnett
I would like to add that halo 3 week one sales were 3.8mil with 11mil xboxes out. This was when the RROD was very common so i don't think its farfetched to say there were 8million usable xboxes, meaning half of all xbox owners bought halo 3, week one... MW2 sold 8mil week one on 59mil consoles. Lets say 15mil of the consoles are unusable, that means 1 in 5 people who owned a console that could play it bought it. In terms of popularity at the time, MW2 has nothing on halo 3 when it came out. There is no way halo reach will have the same ratio as halo 3 as the halo buzz has died down a lot. But it will be similar to MW2 360 sales for sure.
| Mendicate Bias said: It probably won't sell as well as MW2 on the 360 but your reasons are horrible. Looking at the sales of an RTS and an expansion that used the same engine as a 2 year old game and did not have its own multiplayer matchmaking system and saying that these two show that Halo is becoming a weaker brand is just plain wrong. Thats like looking at the sales of GTA: Episodes of Liberty City and saying that the GTA brand is weakening because the expansion didn't sell 8 million. News just in, expansions don't sell as well as full games. Looking at it in perspective though shows you how wrong you are about the Halo brand strength. Halo Wars is the best selling RTS on consoles of all time, ODST is probably the best selling expansion of all time (may be wrong on that one) and Halo 3 was the most played game on xbox live in 2007, 2008, 2009 and is currently the second most played game behind MW2. Does that sound like a weakening franchise to you? |
Your post is funny because the GTA brand is in fact a weaker brand if you look at the sales of GTA vs GTA:SA there is a very big gap
why would it outsell mw2? when reach will be on 1 console and mw2 on 2
Zipper said:
Your post is funny because the GTA brand is in fact a weaker brand if you look at the sales of GTA vs GTA:SA there is a very big gap |
Well you clearly didn't understand my post at all. Go read it again.
Catfang is arguing that an expansion weakened the Halo brand because it did not sell as well as Halo 3. This has nothing to do with a brand weakening over time like GTA has. He's saying that because an expansion didn't sell well that shows Halo is becoming weaker, well then that means that every game in history that has released an expansion is becoming a weaker brand too since expansions never ever sell as well as the original product.
Besides GTA IV sold amazingly on a massively truncated console base than last generations, this is not including the episodic content that has sold very well too.
His reasoning is flawed even if what he says may in fact happen. If I say the sun is getting hotter because the days are getting longer when in fact its because the summer season is approaching does that make me right?
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Zipper said:
Your post is funny because the GTA brand is in fact a weaker brand if you look at the sales of GTA vs GTA:SA there is a very big gap |
but wasnt the userbase of the ps2 much bigger when gta:sa came out to that of the xbox 360 when gta4 came out?
| enragedorange said: @ Garnett I would like to add that halo 3 week one sales were 3.8mil with 11mil xboxes out. This was when the RROD was very common so i don't think its farfetched to say there were 8million usable xboxes, meaning half of all xbox owners bought halo 3, week one... MW2 sold 8mil week one on 59mil consoles. Lets say 15mil of the consoles are unusable, that means 1 in 5 people who owned a console that could play it bought it. In terms of popularity at the time, MW2 has nothing on halo 3 when it came out. There is no way halo reach will have the same ratio as halo 3 as the halo buzz has died down a lot. But it will be similar to MW2 360 sales for sure. |
MW2 did 4,942,101 first week on Xbox 360 alone, that means if MW2 was exclusive on Xbox it would of sold way more.
Halo 3 did 3,815,444, thats including the mass advertising from MS and its exclusive so people can only purchase it on one platform.
So MW2 is more popular than Halo 3 is, how ever REACH may take the crown back with the BETA.
| Mendicate Bias said: It probably won't sell as well as MW2 on the 360 but your reasons are horrible. Looking at the sales of an RTS and an expansion that used the same engine as a 2 year old game and did not have its own multiplayer matchmaking system and saying that these two show that Halo is becoming a weaker brand is just plain wrong. Thats like looking at the sales of GTA: Episodes of Liberty City and saying that the GTA brand is weakening because the expansion didn't sell 8 million. News just in, expansions don't sell as well as full games. Looking at it in perspective though shows you how wrong you are about the Halo brand strength. Halo Wars is the best selling RTS on consoles of all time, ODST is probably the best selling expansion of all time (may be wrong on that one) and Halo 3 was the most played game on xbox live in 2007, 2008, 2009 and is currently the second most played game behind MW2. Does that sound like a weakening franchise to you? |
+1
This guy knows his shiz.
| jarrod said: Where are people getting that Reach isn't a sequel? It's actually the FINAL sequel that Bungie's making, it's going to be HUGE... |
Does it explain what happens to Master Chief at the end of Halo 3? No, because it's not a sequel. Reach takes place on the planet Reach, and this all happens before the plot in Halo 1.
This may be the biggest Halo game since 3, but it doesn't take place after it in terms of story.
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