- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Great point Halo Freak
I think it may come out on August 24th. Even though November is the largest shopping month of the year (in the US) I think that Halo 2 will be released early. My theory has a few factors.
1: Popularity, all of the people who preordered would get their copies of Halo 2 on August 24th if it was released on that date, it will be a good game so word of mouth popularity will spread by the time November roles around it's Christmas time. Little Timmy heard that Halo 2 was a great game, so his mom buys him Halo 2 for this Christmas, and if he doesn't have an XBOX he can get the bundled pack, his favourite game for free along with a new system for the price of the system. So basically this builds up popularity for the Holiday season shoppers and potentially untapped market/non-XBOX owners.
2: Competition, all of the other companies are releasing their big guns in the Holiday Season, sure there is numerous ammount of profit to be made, but it's supply and demand game. So basically Bungie has been making profit since August on Halo 2, without competition from other FPS franchises, it may force them (other FPS game companies) to put out early or may not. But the lack of competition from an early release gives the gamer one game to buy that is Halo 2.
Now it may not come out on August 24th but those are reasons it might