Numbers do not equal quality. A large amount of those Halo players will have had no experience with KZ2 and therefore would take Halo 3 as being the best shooter they have played.

Wow, this thread was a disaster for X360 and Halo fans.

All Sony fans are just spewing their hate.

By some strange coincidence not a single Sony fan happens to like Halo or even be remotely interested in having it on their console. I wonder, why is that lol.

The original Halo sold because it was a fantastic game. It remains one of the best first person shooters of all time. Also, it was the best Xbox launch title by far, and probably the best game on the Xbox, when all was said and done (not difficult )

Millions of people would have bought Halo 3 with crappy advertising, certainly, and it would still probably outsell Killzone 2, thanks to brand name (for the most part), but millions more bought it because they saw it everywhere, and because it's so god damned famous.

I know quite a few PS3 owners, and believe me, very few of them knew what Killzone 2 was before I told them. I imagine the ones I haven't told still have no idea.

Whereas I can ask any 360 owner who bought it for Guitar Hero and DDR if they've heard of Halo 3, they'll say yes. They may not have heard of Chief, or the Covenant, or Cortana, or even know what the hell it is, but they've heard of it. Even people who have never played 360 have heard of Halo 3. It's no easy feat making a series that well known. Probably the only series more famous than Halo is Mario.

Regardless of everything you said... Halo 3 sells like it does because its actually fun. It wouldn't be such a popular online game if it wasn't fun. A lot of games could have the same massive advertising campaign and still not sell nearly as well. Advertising can only get you so far.

why? because they are third party now, likely multiplatform will bring more money, hell bungie may make a game for sony exclusive if sony gets a deal.

they should pìss off microsoft unless microsoft it's some kind of jealous girlfriend.

Jo21 said:

why? because they are third party now, likely multiplatform will bring more money, hell bungie may make a game for sony exclusive if sony gets a deal.

they should pìss off microsoft unless microsoft it's some kind of jealous girlfriend.

 So what you are saying is that Insomniac should start making a Ritchet and Clink. as well as a Risestince series that is multi-platform? They are a third party technically, so if it applies to Bungie it should apply to them as well right?

 In reality business relationships are far far more complicated than what you want to think they are. There are definite advantages to making games exlusively for one console while still maintaining your independence. Being able to work on your own projects while recieving substantial funding and other perks makes for a very happy set of workers.