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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.
BAM!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
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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Maybe I just don't hang out with enough XBOX players. I dunno...
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.
Save Earth from Sony!
Yeah and let Bill take over. My ass.
This just in! Successful game with a cliffhanger ending gets a sequel designed to gain leverage against the competition! In other news, Walmart will continue selling items in their stores, in a knieving plot to gain revenue!
The problem with this plan is that 99% of console FPS fans already have the XBox/XBox2 as their consoles of choice. Halo 3 will let Microsoft keep their fan-base, but it's not going to do much to expand it, much less "crush the PS3"
And if I worked for IGN, I'm sure I'd make up some story about Halo 3 being released on the XBox2 as well. Why wouldn't I? It's a pretty sure thing. Then I guess I'd slap on a header like "Here are two rumours you haven't heard anywhere else" like I'm a revolutionary for guessing that Halo 3 will come out at about the same time as the PS3 launch.
(I hate IGN.)
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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).
The most interesting of these rumours is the possibility that Halo 3 is in the works already
Uh, really? You mean they're working on a sequel to their best-selling series of games? The one that ends abruptly with a total cliffhanger? That is an interesting rumor!
This is a smart move by Microsoft. Lets face it, the only thing that kept Xbox afloat for the first year was Halo. When Halo 2 came out, Xbox live subscriptions jumped through the roof. What do you think is going to happen when Halo 3 comes out?
Microsoft is going to have to play all of its cards in order to have a chance against Sony, and doing a competitive release of Halo 3 against the PS3 may get some Sony loyalists to get the Xbox Next, especially if they do the marketing blitz strategy that worked so well in October.
Oh, and before anyone says I'm a Microsoft fanboy, I'm a mac user. Don't rule Microsoft out just because they're a US company (which many people seem to love doing)
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I am sorry but trying to measure out the value for how many years the item was out is not really a good way to think about it. The thing to look at his how much time did you enjoy on each console. If your PS2 sat in the corner while you were playing your Xbox all the time, then the Xbox was a better value and vice versa the other way around. But then again, when I buy a console I am not exactly looking for a "Value". I am looking for what I am going to enjoy more.
I liked it at first, but it really seems like some element of depth is missing.
God spoke to me.
But wasn't ...Halo 2 received with a collossal "meh"?
It really wasn't. It also still remains the most popular Xbox Live game even now, so it obviously has some longevity.
I would agree that it was hardly a perfect game, but it's crazy to suggest that most players were unhappy with it.
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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.
Doesn't matter. Iron Chef Morimoto would kick Master Chef's ass.
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.
Microsoft, realizing that Sony would have a defensive strategy for Halo 3, then responds by launching Halo 4 and 5 simultaneously. Sony replies with a salvo of Grand Tourismo 5 and Final Fantasy: Who Gives a Fuck. Microsoft, in a visionary move, rolls out Halo: Live, featuring gun shaped controllers that fire live rounds of plastic bullets. The Xbox 360 attachment is required, similar to 3D goggles. Sony parries the thrust with the Sony Kikkosan Anal Pumper...