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LinkTheHuman on 05 December 2014
Captain_Tom said:
sweetoothj said:

Microsoft already has three big blockbuster franchises. Halo, Gears of War and now Minecraft. However, I don't think this will be enough for Microsoft to be first place. What franchise could achieve this? I think overall, only COD will be able to do this. Maybe GTA, but that isn't a yearly title.


Nothing. Period.

 

One game does not make a console #1

What about Wii Sports, wasn't it that 4/5 of the 100 million wii owners also had Wii Sports?



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JEMC on 05 December 2014
dane007 said:


xbox arrived towards the end of the ps2 generation. by that time ps2 had a huge lead. theres no  way any consoles , could  reach that amount in one year or so. so not really a fair comparison

The first Xbox was launched in November 2001 in USA and March 2002 in PAL regions, one year later than the PS2 in USA (Oct. 2000) and less than 18 months later in Europe/Australia (Nov. 2000). That is by no means "towards the end of the generation".



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pokymon90 on 05 December 2014

I would say the Star Wars franchise of games. Battlefront 3 is going to be a system seller and that is only of the 3-4 games that EA is planning. So if they can get all Star Wars games exclusive to Xbox I would say that would be big. Anybody disagree?



Burek on 05 December 2014

Well, still don't know which one they can buy, but it seems the answer definitely isn't Street Fighter...



maverick40 on 05 December 2014
DJEVOLVE said:
Captain_Tom said:
sweetoothj said:

Microsoft already has three big blockbuster franchises. Halo, Gears of War and now Minecraft. However, I don't think this will be enough for Microsoft to be first place. What franchise could achieve this? I think overall, only COD will be able to do this. Maybe GTA, but that isn't a yearly title.


Nothing. Period.

 

One game does not make a console #1

Halo says hi...

However I think it's going to a number of games. COD would have a massive impact, along with games like GTA or straight just buying out EA.


Oh lord, Halo has made nothing to number 1 and never will.



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JazzB1987 on 05 December 2014

GTA?

nah   maybe Fifa



Skidmore on 05 December 2014

Legend of Zelda / Metroid, they would not even need Mario.



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bubblegamer on 05 December 2014

They would need to buy Sony or the PS division.



HylianSwordsman on 05 December 2014
DonFerrari said:
HylianSwordsman said:
GTA doesn't need to be yearly. Buy that out, and within a single game release they'll get their investment back and enough beyond that to make the entire generation profitable on that title alone. Two titles and no one would be able to dispute the profitability of the Xbox brand ever again.

Yeah, sure. Because Rockstar would totally sell GTA franchise for the price of one iteration's profit.

I think they would. The company could be bought out for less, if it were for sale. I mean they bought Mojang for a couple of billion, when it's produced a hell of a lot more profit than that with Minecraft.



GTAexpert on 05 December 2014
HylianSwordsman said:
DonFerrari said:
HylianSwordsman said:
GTA doesn't need to be yearly. Buy that out, and within a single game release they'll get their investment back and enough beyond that to make the entire generation profitable on that title alone. Two titles and no one would be able to dispute the profitability of the Xbox brand ever again.

Yeah, sure. Because Rockstar would totally sell GTA franchise for the price of one iteration's profit.

I think they would. The company could be bought out for less, if it were for sale. I mean they bought Mojang for a couple of billion, when it's produced a hell of a lot more profit than that with Minecraft.

Minecraft made less than a billion.