Halo 3 to ruin other 360 debutants in the next few months ?

tidus04 | September 17, 2007 | News | XBOX 360

Nick Williams who is a games analyst at GamerMetrics predicts that Xbox 360 titles that will come out at the same time of Halo 3 or just after it will lose out because of the release of Halo 3 in the next few months. He believes this because though Halo 3 will be increasing sales of the Xbox 360 title because of mass pre-orders for the game this will give Xbox 360 users less time to play other games because of such features and hype of the game, and this will of course give a negative impact on the rest of the Xbox 360 Gaming Industry.

GamerMetrics analyst predicts other titles will lose out in the wake of Halo 3 popularity.

Nick Williams, an analyst for GamerMetrics, predicts that Halo 3 will sell over four million units in the US alone by the end of October and drive increased Xbox 360 console sales.

"More importantly for Microsoft, Halo 3 will drive significant incremental Xbox 360 hardware sales during the upcoming holiday season, taking the focus away from the Wii and PlayStation 3," says Williams.

Williams also believes the massively popular multiplayer element of the Halo franchise will have a negative impact on the rest of the video game industry: "Gamers will have little free time to play other titles during the early holiday months, meaning less attention given to competing Xbox 360 software releases."

Further more, Williams estimates that Halo 3 will break into the top ten best-selling video game list of all time - a list currently headed by Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES with sales of 18 million units.

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Existenz | September 17, 2007

Well Halo 3 has to do as much damage as it can because after this Microsoft doesn't have a whole lot to say buy my console.
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  Tenken | September 17, 2007
  
  What does PS3 have? It's easy to say that about any of the three consoles.
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    Final Blade | September 18, 2007
    
    Actually They will have alot of games after the end of this year, PS3 doesn't rely one few big hitter like Halo 3 to help increase sales. I agree with this article Halo 3 will help 360 sales for sure but actually hurt the 360 in the long run. One of the problems as well last gen.
    
    Also its not as easy as you make it out to be Tenken, and trust me i play xbox i don't have the system but that doesn't mean anything. Even i can see the problem with this. And Existenz is right.
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Evanster 69 | September 17, 2007

Yeah Microsoft needs every reason they can get after the 33% failure rate (In the UK alone!) and the $1 billion loss from damnaged XBOX 360's.
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Krunal | September 17, 2007

Well that seems extremely likely. It's like when FFXIII comes out, all RPG fans will be playing that, and any other RPG released at that time will most likely be forgotten. Halo 3 is bigger as it is Microsofts leading game, and so is bound to steal the thunder for a couple of months.
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  Final Blade | September 18, 2007
  
  But i don't think there will be much RPG's coming out after FF13. As far as i know.
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Silver Mirror | September 18, 2007

There are never many RPG's on any console, partly because they take so long to make
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Incidnia | September 18, 2007

LOL Halo 3 is damaging it's own console. That's awesome!
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  Final Blade | September 18, 2007
  
  Yeah putting it that way sounds freaking sweet lol.
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regice | September 18, 2007

Halo 3 makes damage to its own console.