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Halo 3 In the Works, Set To Crush PS3 Launch?
IGN has an article claiming to reveal a few rumours from around the industry. The most interesting of these rumours is the possibility that Halo 3 is in the works already, and what's more is being targeted at the PS3 launch date in an effort to undermine Sony. From the article: "The release of Halo 3 at the precise launch of PS3 is a pure, military tactical move, similar to the PS2's greatest lineup ever launching simultaneously with the launch of the Xbox and GameCube. It's designed to counter Sony's upcoming launch with the best weapon Earth has on its side, Master Chief." I'd take this one with a big helping of NaCl.
The way i see people buy video games and consoles these days, gamers will simply rejoyce and buy both the PS3 and Halo 3 together. After all, they were going to get both of them eventually, same release date or not.
It gives Sony plenty enough time to counter with a release title such as another a gran turismo or perhaps several other A1 titles, rather than holding off the big guns till initial sales dwindle .So this could infact end up hurting the sales of halo 3
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It's designed to counter Sony's upcoming launch with the best weapon Earth has on its side, Master Chief. Go, John 117, go! Save Earth from Sony!
Oh for fucks sake IGN, why don't you just glue your lips to Bill Gates' ass.
Seriously though, are competing releases really a big deal for video games? I mean maybe it can be an issue on whether you want to spend your $300 on Revolution, PS3, or XBox 2. But one game is not going to derail the premere of a new system. It's not like movies where you're competing to get weekend and holiday crowds, since once those time frames are over, you lose a significant portion of potential customers and thus sales. Video games stay in stores for months. They compete with each other in terms of content and awesomeness, not in terms of who edges who out by a day or two.
Knowing Xbox had the shortest life cycle in the history of any successful console. I'd say Xbox2 will be in the market for almost 2 years before Xbox3 arrives.
Another words you get a way better bang for your buck with PS3. Yes, I too agree Xbox will probably never win in Japan.
if we are expected to believe that halo3 is being used as an offensive weapon, why should we not be expected to believe that sony won't have a defensive strategy in place, which nobody knows about, which is to create another total kick-ass next-generation FPS that "putsches Cell", so to speak?
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its not like Halo itself isn't itself a total rip-off. you think sony can't rip-off too? duh, hello, the Halo Cult is well-known and well-respected.. and certainly not the first of its kind.
this is just sensationalist tripe in a reactive market (gamers). grow up folks, its only a video game. the hardware, however, doesn't get made with pixie-dust
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Glad to see I am not the only one amazed by this. PS2 = $299 for 6 years Xbox = $299 for 4 years PS2 was easily a better value.
I know people I work with camped out before midnight in front of their local game shop to get the "special edition" version because they were going to be sold out. The EB near me still has 5 copies of the "limited" release on the shelf...
Between that and the paid-for newscasts I really have to wonder how much of the Halo 2 hype was real, and how much Microsoft bought.
How could anybody have possibly worried that they weren't going to be able to get a copy of Halo 2 on release day were it not for the FUD?
The problem now is figuring out if there's anything new that Halo 3 can bring to the table other than a conclusion of the story and improved graphics (I guess we're all assuming this will be on the next XBox?).
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I have all three consoles but this nonsense about Xbox somehow being a bad deal because its time from introduction to new console is too short is ridiculous on its face...not to mention the fact that anybody who bought EITHER the PS2 or the Xbox at launch was a tool of the evil marketing drones. The PS2 launch lineup was a horror and the Xbox had ONE decent game (personally, I'm not a big Halo fan so I wasn't even up for that). At the time of the PS2's release, you could have bought a Dreamcast and a few GOOD games for the same price (or, if you already had the DC, you could have just bought a bunch of good games).
that's why Halo 2 sucked. Well, that's why the "story" sucked.
Remember the original story line shown at the preview?
"You're defending Earth in a last ditch stand against the horror!"
Now notice the cut scenes that made no sense and then suddenly the story plot is left open ended?
Bungie was ready to conclude the Halo story with 2 and move onto something new (as the did with their other story lines) but Microsoft insisted that there be a Halo 3 for XBox 2. Against Bungie's wishes the plot was changed from a concluding chapter to a chapter 2 scenario which was clearly written by someone who didn't write the original. They threw out ALL interesting parts of the first story:
-the Halo is an ancient one of a kind artifact - no, our bad there are a bunch of them.
-the enemy is a mindless horror you can't reason with - oops now you can chat with them over AIM anytime after 6.
Check out how many Bungie personnel from the original group that transfered to Microsoft are still around. The ones who quit and refused to move over to Microsoft originally were the smart ones.
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I liked it at first, but it really seems like some element of depth is missing.
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It's not about halo3 changing someone's mind about buying a ps3.
Did you see the marketing campaign for halo2? It was almost like a new console was being released.
Now think about it. No matter when halo3 comes out, Microsoft will back it up with a huge marketing campaign. So why not make it coincide with the ps3's release? This way, halo3's marketing campaign will accomplish two things:
1) sell a ton of halo3 copies, which is the goal of any marketing campaign.
2) burry sony's marketing campaign under their own.
However, you're right on the final point -- you can't sell a "gaijin" console in Japan.
Er... "gaijin" means "foreign person". It cannot be applied to electrical appliances. The word you're probably not looking for (but I'm going to give you it anyway) is "gaikokusei".
Your claim is somewhat dodgy apart from that. In the 1970s, nobody thought you'd ever be able to sell Japanese cars in America. The American auto makers were thought to be completely safe from foreign competition. Hmm.
Halo was never a 'one of the kind artifact'. They tell you that in Halo 1. Its in a cutscene, you can't miss it.
The covenant was NEVER 'a mindless horror', try reading the manual. It was also implied that the Flood had intelligence in Halo 1 as well (they wielded rocket launchers). In one of the levels Cortana even tells you that the Flood tried to escape Halo by sneaking onboard the disabled covenant cruiser before it launched.
Either you played through both games with the sound off all the way, or you're just ignorant considering some of these facts are repeated numerous times through the game.
PS2: $300, died a year and a half later with constant Disc Read Errors on any disk put in it, finally bought a slim PS2 for $150 a few months back to replace it after borrowing my friend's for over a year and a half (since he never played it). 4 Memeory cards at @$20 each: $80. Total Price: $530.
Xbox: $200 (bought well after launch, just two weeks before the JSRF bundle was announced) plus $150 total on XBL ($50 on XBL launch, $50 after first year, another $50 this year). Has a POS Thomson drive in it, the drive is now so bad it barely reads anything anymore. MS wants $80 plus shipping to fix it, which will be better for me than buying a new one and losing all my game saves. Total price after I send it in for repairs: $420+shipping costs, $280+shipping costs if we don't count XBL costs.
GameCube: $200, launch day unit, no problems. 2 memeory cards at $20 each. Total cost: $240.
As far as not counting the game costs, or controller costs (I've had to replace 2 Xbox controllers so far because they just decide to stop reading when I pull down on the left analog stick sometimes, and 1 GC controller that got thrown to the ground and the A button stopped working), by your logic, the GameCube has been my best value. I spent less for it than my original PS2, and have had it longer than my Xbox, yet it hasn't cost me any extra money because of disk drive problems.
And I'm not the only one who has had bad experiences with Sony's shoddy disk drives, they did lose a class action lawsuit that forces them to fix or replace any PS2 with Disc Read Erors for free, after all. And I'm also not the only one who has had problems with Microsoft's use of Thomson DVD drives in older Xboxes, either. Google Xobx Thomson problems and see how many hits you get. I'll give you a hint on that one, Google says "about 49,800" hits.
The PS2 has hardly been a "better value" for me, or for the thousands of others who have had it die in less than two years of use because Sony's QA has gone to shit over the past decade or so for consumer electronics.