Wow, people are doubting this game's total sales based on first months sales? Have we not paid attention to previous Halo games? Are we all oblivious to the power and force of Halo games?
Seriously, lets re consider this. Lets start with logic. Halo 1 and Halo 1 stayed at the launch price for about to over a year. This only happens when a game continues to sell well at that current price. When The games dropped in price, they stayed at those prices for a long time. Again, prices only maintain so long as the game sells at that price.
Now, lets use my personal experience with the Halo games and working in retail that sold Halo 1 and 2. Nearly every Xbox sold to a new Xbox customer left with Halo 1, 2 or both since their release. Halo 1 and 2 was constantly coming in and being stocked. When Halo 2 was over a year old, Halo 1 was continuing to sell really well. Now, you can say this is isolated, but this was the case while working at Best Buy then CompUSA.
Now, lets use VGChartz. I personally dont like this site, but I know a lot of people use them like they are fact. So, just because I believe the predictions being said here are going the wrong way, I shall use the site to prove my point.
VG Chartz shows Halo 1's total sales at 6.43 Million. Halo 2 came in with 8.39 million. Now, I dont know if this is world wide or only in America, but either way, if Halo 2 sold 8.39 million, Halo 3 will match if not surpass that. It is everything that people loved about Halo 2 in multiplayer with an improved single player game all in the next gen spirit of graphics.
I know at this time there are only like 11 million systems out there, but it has been long known that most Xbox owners are Halo fans. So, I would expect at least 60% of Xbox owners will buy Halo 3 eventually. Some are just waiting for the price of the system and/or game to come to the price they can afford.
Call me crazy, call me ignorant, but a 7 million prediction is both crazy and ignorant in my opinion. I would guess this game will have a life time sales total of no less then 9 million. Halo games have proven in the past that they do not disappear off the map after the first year, and will continue to sell well as the price of the system and game drop in the coming years.
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Seriously, lets re consider this. Lets start with logic. Halo 1 and Halo 1 stayed at the launch price for about to over a year. This only happens when a game continues to sell well at that current price. When The games dropped in price, they stayed at those prices for a long time. Again, prices only maintain so long as the game sells at that price.
Now, lets use my personal experience with the Halo games and working in retail that sold Halo 1 and 2. Nearly every Xbox sold to a new Xbox customer left with Halo 1, 2 or both since their release. Halo 1 and 2 was constantly coming in and being stocked. When Halo 2 was over a year old, Halo 1 was continuing to sell really well. Now, you can say this is isolated, but this was the case while working at Best Buy then CompUSA.
Now, lets use VGChartz. I personally dont like this site, but I know a lot of people use them like they are fact. So, just because I believe the predictions being said here are going the wrong way, I shall use the site to prove my point.
VG Chartz shows Halo 1's total sales at 6.43 Million. Halo 2 came in with 8.39 million. Now, I dont know if this is world wide or only in America, but either way, if Halo 2 sold 8.39 million, Halo 3 will match if not surpass that. It is everything that people loved about Halo 2 in multiplayer with an improved single player game all in the next gen spirit of graphics.
I know at this time there are only like 11 million systems out there, but it has been long known that most Xbox owners are Halo fans. So, I would expect at least 60% of Xbox owners will buy Halo 3 eventually. Some are just waiting for the price of the system and/or game to come to the price they can afford.
Call me crazy, call me ignorant, but a 7 million prediction is both crazy and ignorant in my opinion. I would guess this game will have a life time sales total of no less then 9 million. Halo games have proven in the past that they do not disappear off the map after the first year, and will continue to sell well as the price of the system and game drop in the coming years.