In fact the whole post is kind of a joke lol, sony doesnt have any franchises which as powerful as Halo or Gears. Its most succesful franchise (first party) killzone, has sold around what fable 2 and crackdown did. lets not get delusions of grandeur here people

Again, Halo and Gears have sold so much because they're the only exclusives the 360 has. Fable II and Crackdown don't count, because Miss Piggy didn't mention them.

But her whole arguent is flawed. If what she said was true, things like lair should have sold bucketloads on the PS3 because at the time it was one of the only exclusives on the system... the point she is missing is that volume of exclusives is not correlated at all to the quality of the exclusives. Microsoft happens to have two high profile exclusives which, if multiplatform would sell just as well on the PS3. People dont buy games just because they're exclusives (if they do they're extremely sad and need to get over the whole system wars rubbish), they buy the games due to brand awareness or perceived quality. 

So what you're saying is that she left out a lot of 360 exclusives? And she also named a bunch of PS3 exclusives that only sold a lot because they were bundled and/or came out when the PS3 didn't have many exclusives? That's crazy! Why would someone bother to post such an inept article on VG Chartz, I wonder? 

You're absolutely right.  I see why people enjoy Halo.  I'll be buying it when I finally "Jump In".  I just get annoyed when people claim it's the greatest thing ever.  I just don't see it .  Top tier game, no doubt, but I have a hard time when anyone callsn any game the greatest game ever.  There will never be a concensus on that because there will always be all of those personal pros and cons for each game that makes everyone's personal top 10 games ever lists a bit different.

You're point of it being well-known is also important.  I'm sure popularity breeds more popularity.  I'm sure a decent percentage of Halo 3 owners bought it because they knew this game was where it's at for FPS online MP on the 360 and that community would be around for a long time.

I hate to be cynical but i'm thinking about posting me some crap articles, appealing for clemency in advance and then watch my VGchartz dollars pile up as people can't help but be drawn into my black-hole-like thread, just as i've been drawn into this one.......dammit!

LOL! xD

Me love Halo 3 long time.

Halo 3 sold what it did for two reasons:

1) it was set up to by Halo1/2 success ensuring there simply where many, many millions of people waiting to buy the game.

2) it was a good game, that delivered pretty much what the existing fanbase wanted.

Put simply it couldn't fail (unless Bungie literary raped the gameplay) and other titles would have made little difference, whether there where few or many.

Look at it this way - when the third LOTR movie came out pretty much everyone with an ounce of sense knew it would pass 1$ Billion at the box office. It didn't matter how many other films were around nor how good they were. It's audience was ready, preped and unless the thing failed to deliver its success was guaranteed.

So no, sorry, it's got nothing to do with lack of exclusives, little competition or whatever. That might help explain Halo 1 but not Halo 3.

If that logic is true then brute force should have sold millions... the first halo sold because it was an amazing game

If that logic is true

don't just look at halo 3, you should see how halo 1 & 2 did