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Nsanity on 13 December 2012

There are now a total of six : Standard Edition, Academy Edition, XL Edition, Signature Edition and Collector's Edition and 2013 Edition.



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MB1025 on 13 December 2012
pitzy272 said:
@mb1025

Yeah thats what I was talking about. It seems ridiculous to me that some of gt5s sales are being discounted just bc it had a single goty edition. That makes no sense to me. There are so many goty editions released each year. Its a common practice bc its smart, business wise: it helps remind ppl about the game when its easy for it to be forgotten due to all the new releases, and also allows ppl to get the game and the dlc with a single purchase.

Halo 4 has had plenty of goty awards already, and will get more still. If they wouldn't do a goty edition, that would be foolish, and only they would be to blame.

OT: I guess I never truly answered the Q with any of my posts. If I had to guess, I would say Halo 4, tho like I said previously, even if gt5 "wins", its still not the fairest comparison bc were at the end of a console generation now, and so gt5s 2 yr head start gives it a significant advantage.

I feel regardless that halo is still "bigger" than gt. Gt is definitely big and impt for Sony, but halo can serve as the face of Xbox via the iconic master chief, whereas gt cannot. A car doesn't work for that.

Even tho, like I said, halo will always be bigger, Sony could at least make gt much bigger and more impt for themselves by mandating that there be a new release every 3-4 yrs (still with a prologue in between). If they're smart, they'll increase PDs team size significantly to ensure this happens.


You can count GOTY sales all you want in a vaccum. However if you are going to compare one game to another you can't count extra versions of the game when the other said title doesn;t have any. You also can't say well it is Microsofts fault for not having a GOTY edition because that is BS. No Halo as ever done it.

It should be GT5 vs. Halo 4 and no other versions of GT5 should be counted.

In the end it won;t matter because Halo 4 will sell more copies.



ethomaz on 13 December 2012
Nsanity said:

There are now a total of six : Standard Edition, Academy Edition, XL Edition, Signature Edition and Collector's Edition and 2013 Edition.

Two editions.

Spec 1.0: Standard Edition, Signature Edition (limited), Collector's Edition (limited) and Platinum Edition (EU) (they are the same disc com different cover and some freebies)
Spec 2.0: Spec II (JP), XL Edition (US), Academy Edition (EU) and 2013 Edition (Asia) (they are Spec 2.x specific region releases)

Now stop to talk bullshit... all games have differnte covers per region... in the case of GT5 the name is different per region too.

PS. Yeap...I'm already ready for the Spec 3.0.



yo_john117 on 13 December 2012
MB1025 said:
pitzy272 said:
@mb1025

Yeah thats what I was talking about. It seems ridiculous to me that some of gt5s sales are being discounted just bc it had a single goty edition. That makes no sense to me. There are so many goty editions released each year. Its a common practice bc its smart, business wise: it helps remind ppl about the game when its easy for it to be forgotten due to all the new releases, and also allows ppl to get the game and the dlc with a single purchase.

Halo 4 has had plenty of goty awards already, and will get more still. If they wouldn't do a goty edition, that would be foolish, and only they would be to blame.

OT: I guess I never truly answered the Q with any of my posts. If I had to guess, I would say Halo 4, tho like I said previously, even if gt5 "wins", its still not the fairest comparison bc were at the end of a console generation now, and so gt5s 2 yr head start gives it a significant advantage.

I feel regardless that halo is still "bigger" than gt. Gt is definitely big and impt for Sony, but halo can serve as the face of Xbox via the iconic master chief, whereas gt cannot. A car doesn't work for that.

Even tho, like I said, halo will always be bigger, Sony could at least make gt much bigger and more impt for themselves by mandating that there be a new release every 3-4 yrs (still with a prologue in between). If they're smart, they'll increase PDs team size significantly to ensure this happens.


You can count GOTY sales all you want in a vaccum. However if you are going to compare one game to another you can't count extra versions of the game when the other said title doesn;t have any. You also can't say well it is Microsofts fault for not having a GOTY edition because that is BS. No Halo as ever done it.

It should be GT5 vs. Halo 4 and no other versions of GT5 should be counted.

In the end it won;t matter because Halo 4 will sell more copies.

What do you mean no other version of GT5 should be counted? Like GT5: P or the special editions of GT5?



leatherhat on 13 December 2012
Nsanity said:

There are now a total of six : Standard Edition, Academy Edition, XL Edition, Signature Edition and Collector's Edition and 2013 Edition.


But most of those are only in one territory 



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ethomaz on 13 December 2012

MB1025 said:

You can count GOTY sales all you want in a vaccum. However if you are going to compare one game to another you can't count extra versions of the game when the other said title doesn;t have any. You also can't say well it is Microsofts fault for not having a GOTY edition because that is BS. No Halo as ever done it.

It should be GT5 vs. Halo 4 and no other versions of GT5 should be counted.

In the end it won;t matter because Halo 4 will sell more copies.

No Halo ever won a GOTY award... that the reason because Microsoft never did a GOTY Edition.



smroadkill15 on 13 December 2012
ethomaz said:

MB1025 said:

You can count GOTY sales all you want in a vaccum. However if you are going to compare one game to another you can't count extra versions of the game when the other said title doesn;t have any. You also can't say well it is Microsofts fault for not having a GOTY edition because that is BS. No Halo as ever done it.

It should be GT5 vs. Halo 4 and no other versions of GT5 should be counted.

In the end it won;t matter because Halo 4 will sell more copies.

No Halo ever won a GOTY award... that the reason because Microsoft never did a GOTY Edition.

No way. I can guarantee Halo 1&2 won some goty awards.  



ethomaz on 13 December 2012

smroadkill15 said:

No way. I can guarantee Halo 1&2 won some goty awards.

This gen I don't remember last gen lol

Edit - I checked the Halo: Combat Evolved received a good number of GOTY award... Halo 2 received none.



yo_john117 on 13 December 2012
ethomaz said:

smroadkill15 said:

No way. I can guarantee Halo 1&2 won some goty awards.

This gen I don't remember last gen lol

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't they just need one GOTY award to make a GOTY edition of a game? Because I could swear I've seen GOTY editions that haven't gotten very many GOTY awards.

Also can you link that GOTY counter website, I want to see who wins it for this year.



enrageorange on 13 December 2012
ethomaz said:

MB1025 said:

You can count GOTY sales all you want in a vaccum. However if you are going to compare one game to another you can't count extra versions of the game when the other said title doesn;t have any. You also can't say well it is Microsofts fault for not having a GOTY edition because that is BS. No Halo as ever done it.

It should be GT5 vs. Halo 4 and no other versions of GT5 should be counted.

In the end it won;t matter because Halo 4 will sell more copies.

No Halo ever won a GOTY award... that the reason because Microsoft never did a GOTY Edition.

http://insixide.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/HaloCombatEvolved-BoxArt.jpg

Every single mainline halo game has won a few game of the year awards.