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The on 18 April 2009

Gran Turismo was strong and popular for a little over 2 generations (counting the positive embrace of the GT5: Prologue). Halo's been strong and popular for almost 2 (as the current one is not over yet). All is left to see is if the Gran Turismo brand will continue to be as strong as it's been.



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Batman...WTF? on 18 April 2009
Zizzla_Rachet said:

News

10 Billion Halo 3 Kills Achieved

By Bryn Williams | Apr 14, 2009
Bungie's Xbox 360 shooter hits a ridiculously high milestone for Covenant campaign kills
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Since Halo 3 launched on the Xbox 360 (which was 565 days ago) there have apparently been 10 billion Covenant kills in the game's campaign mode. Yes, 10 billion. A post on Bungie.net by urk tells us that this amazing milestone was reached and breached over the past weekend.

A comedy list of factoids pertaining to that gargantuan figure reads as follows:

Crude math places the estimate of daily Halo 3 Covenant kills, launch-to-date, at over 17,500,000. That's 730,000 killed per hour or 12,000 Covenant troops killed per minute.

  • If you had ten billion pennies saved up, you could cash them in for about a hundred million bucks. You'd also need a piggy bank about the size of a football field to hold them and the bank teller would shoot you the mother of all nasty looks when you started bringing in your jingling sacks of copper to exchange them for paper bills.
    • Halo 3 players: Too much spare time on their hands?
  • The Earth's current population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, has reached 6.7 Billion. If current trending models remain accurate, it's projected that our population will reach ten billion sometime in the next fifty years.

  • Were we able to lay the corpses of the fallen Covenant in some kind of gruesome, macabre ring around the circumference of the Earth, we'd have to make the trip some 456 times. Roughly speaking, that would be 11,363,636 miles of end-to-end Covenant. And that's using a low estimate of six feet for each Covenant foot soldier.

  • According to Robt McLees, If we were to skin the Covenant aliens felled upon Earth's battlefield, there would be enough leather to upholster the entire state of New Jersey. Which would be easily be the most disgusting thing ever done in the history of disgusting things.

    • Bungie recently released its new Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack via the Xbox Live Marketplace.

    Damn. That's impressive. And I forgot how sexy that game looks. If it were a chick, I'd tap that. Then I'd tap it's slightly hotter sister, Killzone 2.



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    Xbot on 18 April 2009

    halo is bigger than jesus



    Cheebee on 18 April 2009

    So when is GT5 coming out, anyway?
    I bet that game's the sole reason they're claiming PS3 will have a 10-year cycle, they'll release it somewhere in 2016, probably.



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    bouzane on 18 April 2009

    GT4 has more than 10 million in sales according to PD so that makes it nearly as popular as Halo 3 despite the criticisms and relative lack of critical acclaim compared to its predecessors. Only GT5 will really answer the question of whether or not Halo is more popular than GT. Personally, I think GT will remain the more popular franchise unless Sony intentionally sabotages GT5.



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    monlosez on 19 April 2009
    Cheebee said:
    So when is GT5 coming out, anyway?
    I bet that game's the sole reason they're claiming PS3 will have a 10-year cycle, they'll release it somewhere in 2016, probably.

     

    People already hyping games that we don't know when they are coming out.



    twingo on 19 April 2009

    Any one with a brain does.

    GT5p did 3 million at retail alone, every GT game has surpassed 9 million. First GT of this gen = massive sales. Online = massive NA sales.

    GT3 sales were cut by GT4, damn thing would have sold more had it had more time. GT5 will have much more time given dev times this gen have increased greatly.

    Xbots can dream all they want, the only thing bigger then GT is GTA not Halo. And looking how Europe is now a bigger pie of PS sales, GT can expect even better sales.



    SickleSigh on 19 April 2009

    Going by PS3 exclusive sales this gen I'm hesistant to say GT5 will sell as much as the old ones used to and more than Halo 3. I'm wondering how much if any hardware GT will move though.



    yo_john117 on 19 April 2009
    twingo said:
    Any one with a brain does.

    GT5p did 3 million at retail alone, every GT game has surpassed 9 million. First GT of this gen = massive sales. Online = massive NA sales.

    GT3 sales were cut by GT4, damn thing would have sold more had it had more time. GT5 will have much more time given dev times this gen have increased greatly.

    Xbots can dream all they want, the only thing bigger then GT is GTA not Halo. And looking how Europe is now a bigger pie of PS sales, GT can expect even better sales

    According to this all these games are more popular than GT >_>

    At least 50 million copies

    #Franchise nameOriginal Release DateSales
    1 Mario 1981[1] 201 million[2]
    The Mario franchise spawned over 200 games since its first release.[1] Known as Jumpman in the original Donkey Kong video game, the character was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and since became the official mascot of Nintendo, owner of the trademark.

    2 Pokémon February 27, 1996 186 million[3]
    Pokémon was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995 as a video game for the Game Boy portable console, soon turning into a franchise merchandised into anime, manga, trading cards, toys, books, and other media. It is owned by Nintendo.

    3 The Sims February 4, 2000 100 million[2][4]
    The Sims is a series of strategic life-simulation computer and console video games created by game designer Will Wright, published by Maxis and distributed by Electronic Arts. The series consists of three main games and a number of compilations and expansion packs.

    4 Need for Speed 1994 almost 100 million[5]
    Need For Speed is a series of racing video games by Electronic Arts, released on multiple platforms. The games consist mainly of racing with various cars on various tracks, and to some extent, include police pursuits in races.

    5 Final Fantasy December 18, 1987 85 million[6]
    Final Fantasy (ファイナルファンタジー Fainaru Fantajī?) is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes twelve released main video games and a number of spin-offs — mostly role-playing games, motion pictures, and other merchandise.

    6 Grand Theft Auto 1997 70 million[7]
    Grand Theft Auto is a sandbox style video game series created by Dave Jones and primarily developed by Scottish developer Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design) and published byRockstar Games, including eight stand-alone games and two expansion packs for the original game.

    7 Madden NFL 1988 70 million[8]
    Madden NFL is an American football video game series developed by Electronic Arts Tiburon for EA Sports. The game is named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden, a well-knowncolor commentator for NBC Sports and formerly a Super Bowl-winning head coach during the 1970s with the Oakland Raiders.

    8 Tetris June 1985 70 million[9]
    Tetris (Russian: Тетрис) is a falling-blocks puzzle video game, created by Alexey Pajitnov and released on a vast spectrum of platforms, from calculators to video game consoles and computers, with the version bundled with the Game Boy the most successful with over 33 million sold.[10]

    9 FIFA Christmas 1993 65 million[11]
    A series of football (soccer) video games, released yearly by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label, and the first to have an official licence from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (International Federation of Association Football), the international governing body of football.

    10 Tom Clancy August 21, 1998 55 million[12]
    Includes sales from Tom Clancy–sponsored games made by Ubisoft, including Ghost Recon,Rainbow Six, and Splinter Cell.

    11 The Legend of Zelda February 21, 1986 52 million[13]
    The Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説 Zeruda no Densetsu?) is a high fantasy action-adventure video game series created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, developed and published by Nintendo.

    12 Nickelodeon
    		50 million[14]
    The Nickelodeon franchise includes licenses like SpongeBob SquarePants and Avatar: The Last Airbender, published by THQ.

    13 Sonic the Hedgehog June 23, 1991 50 million[15]
    The Sonic the Hedgehog series is a franchise of video games released by Sega starring and named after its mascot character Sonic the Hedgehog, created by Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima. With time, it has expanded into animated television series, manga and comic books.

    14 Gran Turismo December 23, 1997 50 million shipped[16]

    Gran Turismo is a series of racing video games produced by Kazunori Yamauchi for the SonyPlayStation gaming systems by Polyphony Digital.

     

    And I'm talking IS not was so your GT3 argument is invalid here....



    twingo on 19 April 2009
    SickleSigh said:
    Going by PS3 exclusive sales this gen I'm hesistant to say GT5 will sell as much as the old ones used to and more than Halo 3. I'm wondering how much if any hardware GT will move though

     Prologue moved hardware, WTF you think the full blow game will do ?

    Sales

    Japan pre GT5p 38.8k after GT5p 59k

    Europe pre GT5p 101k after GT5p 135k

    NA pre GTp5 40k after 53k

    WW 180k after GT5p 247k

     

    Sales improved in every region, and thats just what a $40 "demo" did.