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hatmoza on 28 August 2010
Michael-5 said:
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hatmoza said:
Michael-5 said:
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tuscaniman said:
hatmoza said:

Not more than 100k what it's doing now. You got to remember ... Halo fans already have a 360.

250-300k week of Halo Reach.


Being probably right about most Halo fans already having a 360 you are also partly wrong. You have to remember its been 3 years since a true big Halo title has released. 3 years ago the 360 was $100 more and had less features to entice certain people. Now you are looking at a $299 360s with built in WiFi, 250GB HDD, sleeker and more reliable. I'm sure there are plenty of people who haven't bought into this gen or only own a Wii or PS3 thinking about getting a 360 and Reach will be the game to push some of these people over the edge to get one. Reach is going to be one of the biggest games this gen. We are talking about a game as big in scale and hype as MW2 only available for a single console. It is a system seller and there will be a sales spike because of it. I broke down and bought a PS3 today and I'm sure there will be PS3 owners who will break down and buy a 360 because Reach is just too tempting. Not to mention you have Gears of War 3 around the corner.

Edit: I noticed after I typed this you put in a 100k sales spike which is probably about right, but I just wanted to state why Reach will sell consoles in my opinion and it could be more than 100k. I guess we'll soon find out.

I just wanted to correct you on one little thing. The last major Halo wasn't 3 years ago ... it was less than a year ago selling 5.55m copies.

http://www.vgchartz.com/game.php?id=29077

Halo 3 ODST was not a major Halo release. Yes 5.55 million units is a lot, but for Halo thats a joke. Halo 3: ODST didn't even have it's own multiplayer, a must for any full out proper Halo game. It wasn't even it's own Halo game as it was still badged Halo 3. How can it be a major Halo game when it doesn't even have online multiplayer, which is literally half the Halo experience.

You may argue Halo 1 sold similar numbers, but that was a launch title for a console which only sold 24 million units total, and Halo has gotten a lot more popular in the last decade, with every major installment outselling the previous by about 3 million.

P.S. as a joke, Halo 3: ODST was half a Halo game (didn't have online multiplayer, which is half the experience), yet it still sold 5.5 million units, and is still rapidly growing, so half the sales. LOL The game is probably less then Half a Halo as it didn't have a epic of a campaign as a regular Halo, and no Spartans. Still an epic title, worthy of a 9.1/10.

it had online, it was Halo 3's multiplayer including all the downloadable maps. It also had firefight mode IIRC. So it had the campaign and online, and I believe it retailed for the full price of $59.99. That seems like a full game to me.

I dunno about a 9.1 as the campaign was boring me to tears but it was a Halo FPS nonetheless and a Halo experience worthy of being considered  a major Halo game. 

But if you want to get technical: Halo 1, 2 and 3 is the main series. ODST and Reach are spinoffs :P


Halo Reach is a prequal, it is a part of the main story, ODST and Halo Wars are side stories. Do you know anything about Halo?

Lol ODST had multiplayer, Halo 3 multiplayer. You said it yourself hatmoza. Firefight Mode was not online, and ODST did not have it's own multiplayer versus mode (the basic muliplayer mode for any FPS).

Also to add to Jadedx, the Halo campaign focus's on humanities fight against the convanent for survival. It focuses on the Spartans as they are the most advanced soldiers ever trained (In the Halo universe). Halo 3 ODST was a side story to Halo 2 and Halo 3 focusing on the hard battles ODST soldiers had to face to clean up just one African city on the Earth of covanent soldiers. It contributes nothing to the battle for survival against the covanent.

Halo 1-3, Wars, and Reach all contribute to the main story arch, and are all main Halo games. Halo 1-3 tell the story after the epic battle on Reach from the only surviving spartan, Halo Wars gives a general overview of the battle on Reach, and Halo: Reach focus's on a small group of Elite spartans, who fight to save Reach. All these games contribute to the main story arch, they all have their own single and complete mulitpler experience.

ODST was almost an add on, saying ODST was a major Halo title, is like saying GT5 Prologue is a major Gran Turismo title.

Play your Halo, then comment on the games as side-stories, or main stories.

The way you put it, Reach sounds like ODST. Also ODST and Reach don't have Master Chief ...



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Michael-5 on 28 August 2010

BTW, although on Metacritic only gives Halo 3: ODST a score of 83/100, many acclaimed websites give it much higher ratings such as: Official Xbox Magazine - 95/100, IGN - 9/10, Gamespot 9/10, GamePro 9/10, Official Xbox Magazine UK 9/10, Gametrailers 8.9/10, IGN UK 86/100, etc.

I personally favour Gametrailers Reviews. I find them to be the least biased, and not as over inflated as other websites.

P.S. Most Halo games average over 9/10, and I've seen many reviews giving Halo 3 9.8 or 9.6/10



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Jadedx on 28 August 2010

Now I think your just trolling.



hatmoza on 28 August 2010

@ Yo_john

I do admit I only played Halo 3 and ODST, and that I don't completely understand the story. 

anyway 250-300k



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Michael-5 on 28 August 2010
hatmoza said:
Michael-5 said:
Jadedx said:

 


Halo Reach is a prequal, it is a part of the main story, ODST and Halo Wars are side stories. Do you know anything about Halo?

Lol ODST had multiplayer, Halo 3 multiplayer. You said it yourself hatmoza. Firefight Mode was not online, and ODST did not have it's own multiplayer versus mode (the basic muliplayer mode for any FPS).

Also to add to Jadedx, the Halo campaign focus's on humanities fight against the convanent for survival. It focuses on the Spartans as they are the most advanced soldiers ever trained (In the Halo universe). Halo 3 ODST was a side story to Halo 2 and Halo 3 focusing on the hard battles ODST soldiers had to face to clean up just one African city on the Earth of covanent soldiers. It contributes nothing to the battle for survival against the covanent.

Halo 1-3, Wars, and Reach all contribute to the main story arch, and are all main Halo games. Halo 1-3 tell the story after the epic battle on Reach from the only surviving spartan, Halo Wars gives a general overview of the battle on Reach, and Halo: Reach focus's on a small group of Elite spartans, who fight to save Reach. All these games contribute to the main story arch, they all have their own single and complete mulitpler experience.

ODST was almost an add on, saying ODST was a major Halo title, is like saying GT5 Prologue is a major Gran Turismo title.

Play your Halo, then comment on the games as side-stories, or main stories.

The way you put it, Reach sounds like ODST. Also ODST and Reach don't have Master Chief ...

Halo Reach is rumored to have Master Cheif in the game, but until it releases we won't know for sure.

Also how does Reach sound like ODST? ODST is a cleanup job by non-spartans, where Reach is probably the biggest battle in the Halo universe, in which a human inhabitated planet is taken over by the Covanent.

For goodness sakes, Halo 1 starts off with Master Cheif returning from Reach!



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Makaha on 28 August 2010

as others have mentioned, Halo fans already have a 360....

 

People expecting huge gigantic hardware pushes from Reach or GT5 are going to be disappointed....

 

this is late in the generation for software to push huge amounts of consoles (like when MGS4 came out)

 

Both Reach and GT5 will both push some hardware, but it won't be huge amounts.

 

I'm thinking about 100k extra, same for GT5 also

 

and for the record, I think all prequels suck, whether it be movies (see Star Wars prequels) or video games

 

You already know what's going to happen in the time line, it's anti climactic, it's a let down.....

and is the reason I WON'T be buying Reach

 

I wish they were coming out with a SEQUEL instead of a god damned prequel !!!



 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3oVRJm-RBU

liu777 on 28 August 2010

Yeah 250k-300k sounds about right. I personally think GT5 will push fewer then 100k consoles/week. The sales aren't as big as they once were before if preorders mean anything. 30-50k assuming proportionality?



Jadedx on 28 August 2010
Makaha said:

as others have mentioned, Halo fans already have a 360....

 

People said the same thing about Halo 2 and I know fora fact that halo 2 boosted xbox sales.



Killiana1a on 28 August 2010

Not as many as most would expect. Definitely not as many as those that will be sold the Friday after Thanksgiving and the weeks leading up to January 1, 2011.

You will see a spike from the early September and August weekly sales though.



dejelek on 28 August 2010

yes probably 150-200K extra per weekly

maybe now it is a little bigger, reach will rather big in WW terms