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Posted by: IrishMC
It's the ammount of sales buddy, not how much profit bungie will make over PS3.


Everyone (by everyone I mean a ton of people) on the day of release will be buying either a PS3 or Halo 3. So when you add up the total PS3 will still make more money no matter how much one sold over the other. Halo 3 would have to outdo Sony by 50x (guess).

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  • 07.18.2006 9:51 PM PDT

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Posted by: The Legend1228
Well I think Halo 3 will beat the PS3 in sales for the main fact of pricing(h3-$60 PS3-$500-600). However the popularity of the halo franchise also is a factor due to the fact that halo 2 beat the sales records of some consoles and most games. The thing that i think will really let somone pick Halo 3 over a PS3 is due to the fact that you can get a Wii and Halo 3 for a much cheaper price, mostly being is that (we all know this) the PS3 is a rip off of ALL the next gen consoles.

PS3 copied features-
a "PS3" button (Xbox Guide Button)
15 degrees of rotation-(nintendos controller)
Playstation Market place-(self explainitory)
and the spider man font... yes i know their pityful


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I agree

  • 07.19.2006 12:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: The Legend1228
Well I think Halo 3 will beat the PS3 in sales for the main fact of pricing(h3-$60 PS3-$500-600). However the popularity of the halo franchise also is a factor due to the fact that halo 2 beat the sales records of some consoles and most games. The thing that i think will really let somone pick Halo 3 over a PS3 is due to the fact that you can get a Wii and Halo 3 for a much cheaper price, mostly being is that (we all know this) the PS3 is a rip off of ALL the next gen consoles.

PS3 copied features-
a "PS3" button (Xbox Guide Button)
15 degrees of rotation-(nintendos controller)
Playstation Market place-(self explainitory)
and the spider man font... yes i know their pityful


Please post comments flames etc.


What time frame are you basing this on? I mean, Halo 3 will never sell as many units as the PS3 in their entire lifespan. Maybe after the first few months or so. Halo 2 sold what... 5 million copies? The PS2 has sold over 100 million units worldwide.

I'm not a Sony fan and I love my Halo, but to suggest a game can outsell a platform is obscene.

  • 07.19.2006 1:14 AM PDT
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ok yeah I believe that H3 will beat PS3 in sales but you have to realise that its a game not a console and the games always sell more of themselves than consoles do.
If you were to say will Xbox 360 beat PS3 in sales it would be a valid argument.

H3 will push up sales of the 360 because it will be the "killer game" of our age.

  • 07.19.2006 1:42 AM PDT

Sony was scared that more people would buy a 360 instead of a PS3. So, they postponed the release. After checking the 360 out, they just ripped some parts and featurres from that and put them in their PS3!

  • 07.19.2006 2:57 AM PDT
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Um, I really don't care. I just want Halo 3. I'll pay whatever they charge. I don't plan on buying a PS3 since all Sony sells are ripoffs of xbox games or lousy anime stuff. I traded in my PS2 for Battlefield 2 for the PC. Unless they come out with something I or my friends, who are avid FPS fans, would definitely buy, I just don't see spending $600 on a console. It was bad enough to have to buy the 360 for such a high price and then have second-rate release games.

  • 07.19.2006 3:03 AM PDT
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Posted by: The Legend1228
Well I think Halo 3 will beat the PS3 in sales for the main fact of pricing(h3-$60 PS3-$500-600). However the popularity of the halo franchise also is a factor due to the fact that halo 2 beat the sales records of some consoles and most games. The thing that i think will really let somone pick Halo 3 over a PS3 is due to the fact that you can get a Wii and Halo 3 for a much cheaper price, mostly being is that (we all know this) the PS3 is a rip off of ALL the next gen consoles.

PS3 copied features-
a "PS3" button (Xbox Guide Button)
15 degrees of rotation-(nintendos controller)
Playstation Market place-(self explainitory)
and the spider man font... yes i know their pityful


Please post comments flames etc.


What time frame are you basing this on? I mean, Halo 3 will never sell as many units as the PS3 in their entire lifespan. Maybe after the first few months or so. Halo 2 sold what... 5 million copies? The PS2 has sold over 100 million units worldwide.

I'm not a Sony fan and I love my Halo, but to suggest a game can outsell a platform is obscene.


Closer to 7 million copies, and 100 million is extremely over inflated, closer to 50 million and God knows how many were shipped becasue there were so many break downs.


Regardless, my point remains - PS2 outsold Halo 3 many times over.

  • 07.19.2006 4:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: plasmamortar
ok yeah I believe that H3 will beat PS3 in sales but you have to realise that its a game not a console and the games always sell more of themselves than consoles do.


No they don't.

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If the PS3 doesn't come out until after christmas noone but the truest of PS3 lovers would want to spend another 600

  • 07.19.2006 5:34 AM PDT
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Halo 3 will cost the same as every other non-used 360 game. $60.

"The Playstation Three will cost five-hundred and ninety-nine U.S. dollars."

The PS3 will probably come close, but it's so damn expensive that Halo 3 will probably out-sell it. And let's not forget:










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  • 07.19.2006 5:41 AM PDT
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of course it will beat PS3

PS3 is piece of JUNK

and those who says no .... screw and -blam!- you

  • 07.19.2006 5:42 AM PDT
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Posted by: sniper 37
of course it will beat PS3

PS3 is piece of JUNK

and those who says no .... screw and -blam!- you


Nice... immature, pointless, nonsensical. Impressive post all round.



I love people like this guy/girl, who are like "yeah, its gonna beat ps3 cos sony are rubbish", or "games sell well more than consoles".

I mean, what planet are these people from.

Individual games DO NOT OUTSELL CONSOLES!!!

That's it.

  • 07.19.2006 5:47 AM PDT
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It will be close. You have to remember that everyone that wants a PS3 will buy a PS3, but not all XBOX 360 owners will buy Halo 3. You cant ever compare game sales to console sales.

  • 07.19.2006 5:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: StUnNeR H2K
It will be close. You have to remember that everyone that wants a PS3 will buy a PS3, but not all XBOX 360 owners will buy Halo 3. You cant ever compare game sales to console sales.


What is wrong with people!!! IT WILL NOT BE CLOSE!!! It won't be comparable let alone similar. Console sales are far superior to even the biggest game franchise.

These figures are total sales as of the end of 2003 for consoles - worldwide (Just 2003!!!).

PlayStation 2 - 69.46 million
Xbox - 13.7 million
GameCube - 13.94 million
Game Boy Advance - 49.42 million
PSone - 99.22 million

Contrarily, here are the total sales figures (TOTAL, not just one year) for games since 2004.

1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2) - 5.1 million
2. Halo 2 (Xbox) - 4.2 million
3. Madden NFL 2005 (PS2) - 3.2 million
4. ESPN NFL 2K5 (PS2) - 1.5 million
5. Need for Speed Underground 2 (PS2) - 1.4 million
6. Pokémon FireRed (with adapter) (GBA) - 1.2 million
7. NBA Live 2005 (PS2) - 1.2 million
8. Spider-Man 2 (PS2) - 1.1 million
9. Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox) - 1.1 million
10. ESPN NFL 2K5 (Xbox)- 1.0 million

Even the LOWEST selling console outperformed the TOP SELLING game by over double.

That's it - there's no way Halo 3 could outsell the Ps3. Not unless it dies a death like the N-gage, but you all know that Sony have too big a fan base for that to happen.

ACCEPT IT!

[Edited on 7/19/2006]

  • 07.19.2006 6:06 AM PDT
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That would be the greatest thing ever. I single video game defeats a console launch's sales.

  • 07.19.2006 6:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: The Rizza
Sony is killing its low and middle income fanbase by having such a large price for just the console. I think that some of them will go to the Microsoft side, but others will go for.....THE WII!!!!! Anyways some people will buy the 360 just to play Halo 3..... I personally believe Halo 3 will be the top selling game ever, because of all the publicity it has received. Back to Sony, if their console has as many problems as the PS2 did with........not breaking, Microsoft and Nintendo will get more people switching over to their consoles.


Yes, Halo 3 will probably be the best selling game ever. And yes I think Sony's fanbase is dwindling. But it won't outsell the Ps3.

  • 07.19.2006 6:35 AM PDT

It's kind of a strange question. They're not really comparable units. As mentioned a game is less than 100 bucks and the PS3 is like 500.

#1 Don't expect for Halo 3 to sell like halo 2 did initially. Consider that It's for a new console and revise your expectations accordingly. Unless you expect for people who don't have a 360 to buy a copy.

#2 They'll be able to make copies of Halo 3 more cheaply and efficiently than an entire console. There will simply be more copies of Halo 3 available.

  • 07.19.2006 6:48 AM PDT

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Posted by: DocRobotnik
What is wrong with people!!! IT WILL NOT BE CLOSE!!! It won't be comparable let alone similar. Console sales are far superior to even the biggest game franchise.

These figures are total sales as of the end of 2003 for consoles - worldwide (Just 2003!!!).

PlayStation 2 - 69.46 million
Xbox - 13.7 million
GameCube - 13.94 million
Game Boy Advance - 49.42 million
PSone - 99.22 million

Contrarily, here are the total sales figures (TOTAL, not just one year) for games since 2004.

1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2) - 5.1 million
2. Halo 2 (Xbox) - 4.2 million
3. Madden NFL 2005 (PS2) - 3.2 million
4. ESPN NFL 2K5 (PS2) - 1.5 million
5. Need for Speed Underground 2 (PS2) - 1.4 million
6. Pokémon FireRed (with adapter) (GBA) - 1.2 million
7. NBA Live 2005 (PS2) - 1.2 million
8. Spider-Man 2 (PS2) - 1.1 million
9. Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox) - 1.1 million
10. ESPN NFL 2K5 (Xbox)- 1.0 million

Even the LOWEST selling console outperformed the TOP SELLING game by over double.

That's it - there's no way Halo 3 could outsell the Ps3. Not unless it dies a death like the N-gage, but you all know that Sony have too big a fan base for that to happen.

ACCEPT IT!


Probably the smartest thing said in this topic. Halo 3 will not outsell PS3. Simple as that. But then again, these are H3 forums, and there are many fanboys here, so saying this will mean nothing. Only get me flamed. Bring it on.

  • 07.19.2006 6:50 AM PDT
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OMG!!! How is it that a post this ridiculous gets 47 hits, when so many with half decent topics of conversation fizzle away and die. I guess it's like badly made action movies. It's trash and people know it, but they still can't keep themselves away from it.

What is it that you lot don't understand??? There's no argument here! There's no debate! The answer is clear and there's no refuting it. Yet STILL you persist.

You may be wondering why I'm still posting - if I don't like the thread why not just leave it - well, I can't. I can't stand watching people go over and over and OVER things a hundred or more times, completely bypassing irrifutable facts that make the thread redundant.

  • 07.19.2006 6:56 AM PDT
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yo playstation can lik deez nuts kno what im sayin go bungie!

plus when you guys are factoring in the sales and profits... you should consider "bang for the buck" because sales alone are a poor measure of accounting profit at least

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Posted by: Anivader
i bet halo3 is gonna sell more than 2 million copies so that will be 120 million!!! Have u seen PS3's controller? its sooooooo stupid and ugly.


H3 will be all time bestseller for Xbox360


The controller look exactly the same as the PS2 one.

  • 07.19.2006 7:32 AM PDT
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Posted by: Anivader
i bet halo3 is gonna sell more than 2 million copies so that will be 120 million!!! Have u seen PS3's controller? its sooooooo stupid and ugly.


H3 will be all time bestseller for Xbox360


The controller look exactly the same as the PS2 one.


and the ps1 controller

  • 07.19.2006 12:14 PM PDT

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