Ah Gaf insiders, I thought the Xbox community hates them with a passion and thinks they're all just liars making up shit to make the X1 and Microsoft look bad, why's this one different? :D

Though I shouldn't speak, me being more on the PS side of things I naturally have to believe everything any insider on Gaf says.

What I'm trying to say is, it's a rumour and should be treated as such, though it doesn't seem entirely improbably especially the Halo 2 part, I always thought 2014 would be too early for Halo 5 and that would fit in with that.

Edit: Too slow, thread title already changed

Really? It tells me they needed a decent game they could give out for free and found something they knew nobody was buying anymore.

It sold 1.7 million copies on the back of Halo 3 7 years ago. The sequel then sold 1 million copies 3 years later. By the time C3 comes out it would have been another 5 years. They are building upon a dead series. A new IP will have the same chances of selling well as C3 does.

Yeah...you're really not making much sense.  

When a sequel comes out it gets carry over sales from it's predecessor. When a new IP comes out it has to build it's popularity from the ground up. Crackdown was already a relatively small series 5 years ago, by now it's popularity is likely small enough to be negligible. So if C3 sold 1.7 million copies it would be selling them by its own merit (like a new IP) and very little because of the original games. Hence i think they are better off just making a new IP, the risk would be about the same either way.

Does that makes sence? Sorry if it wasn't clear in that post.

Well, to be fair Thuway is a complete fucking bullshitter and cboat has been slipping up lately.

And that guy is someone I personally have never heard about, so that puts all of them on kinda equal footing in my eyes :D

Yeah...you're really not making much sense.  

You know why?

Because pretty everywhere I go, all the forums I visit, whenever Crackdown 3 is mentioned, I always see a good number of people in the thread react positively and saying they will buy it for the xbox one, given their past experiences with the original Crackdown.  Now, you're saying that CD 3 would need to completely rebuild their fanbase and start from scratch to build merit, right?  Well, seeing as how a ton of people want Crackdown 3 (and this is even without any Crackdown 3 confirmation or info/media), your argument is terribly flawed.