Halo 3 sales may save Microsoft’s Xbox 360 even if it has the red ring of death syndrome
Filed under: Gaming, Xbox 360 | By: Mark
Posted on: September 25, 2007 | 15 Comments
We all have gathered that the Microsoft Xbox 360 has the red ring of death syndrome but on a personal note I can see the new game already out in the U.S and coming tomorrow 26th September Halo 3 somehow may save the feared console, could this true, could this game save the 360? Stats say that the sales of the Xbox 360 are well behind the likes of the Nintendo Wii and have failed to make a profit for the company (Apparently).
Halo 3 is the most anticipated games of all time and of which being covered so many times on many blogs and websites and many more places, it is the title of the year if not the title of all titles. There have been more than 1.5 million copies of Halo 3 that has been pre-ordered before the UK release which makes it the fastest selling game in history of which beats Halo 2 pre-sales which was released in 2004, Halo 2 made an estimated $125 million in sales within the first 24 hours of its release in the States.
Some say that Microsoft may even sell more than 3 million copies of Halo 3 within the first 2 weeks of it being in stores and that around 30 percent of people buying the game will also buy the Xbox 360 as well (happy days for Microsoft).
Halo 3 will come out in 3 different versions which are the Standard Edition, the Limited Edition and the Legendary Edition.
Answer this question – Will Halo 3 game sales save the Xbox 360 even thou it has the red ring of death syndrome?
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thats how u sell million halo cd by sending scratch cd on box.ms knows how to sell halo game.now every cd replaced is twice sold halo game.looser ms
$600 isn’t that much money. People spend $600 easily on a couple of nights out. And if one plays videogames instead of painting the town red, then $600 is peanuts. Oh, and the ps3 is $500, not $600, a nice 20% in savings.
Whoa Whoa just like I said Xbox fanboys always want to bring up the PS3. Oh well. I’m not a Sony Fanboy but I’m not much a fan of MS either.
I love all this PS3 isdead talk when the PS3 sales are doing the about the same in a year when the 360 came out. It wasn’t until Gears of War came out that then the 360 moved 4.4 million systems. So in the first year of each systems release the Wii moved the most followed by PS3, then the 360. To call any system dead even when it hasn’t been out for a year is stupid.
Hopefully Halo 3 can move systems. We all know it will sell like crazy and that is a fact but will it sell 360’s like gears did? I doubt it.
Both the PS3 and 360 are selling poorly so I don’t get the PS3 is dead thing when the 360 isn’t selling so hot either.
RROD is an issue otherwise MS wouldn’t have to set aside 1.5 billion dollars to try to calm people down. I don’t hate the 360 I will wait till one doesn’t have a high chance of failing before I get another one…..when they switch to 65nm chips.
To One:
Your revisionist history is astounding.
The PS3 is dead. Its over. Let it go.
Ummm no, coboconk, the PS3 is not 500 its 600, they gave the 60 gig PS3 a price cut to get rid of it. They will be replacing it with a 600 dollar 80 gig PS3.
There has been a 60 gig PS3 in my local futureshop for a month now since the price cut, just goes to show how much incentive that goes.
The fact is that the premium 360 is still cheaper, and thats without the hd dvd player which no body wants anyway.
Also “360’s like gears did? I doubt it.”
Ur an idiot because Halo is a million times bigger than gears, it will sell consoles better than gears did hands down.
Another thing about the RROD, at least the 360 has some way of informing you that your 360 is broken. I mean what a convenience when you dont have to play games for days with the support lines trying to trouble shoot problems. ALl you have to say is i have the red ring of light and they tell you to send it in.
Even so I still have never had this problem and Dont know many people who have had it.