Based on the statistics gathered from http://www.vgchartz.com the information of the amount of preorders achieved from Halo 4’s influence is really significant considering it had 130,000 preorders in the first 2 months it came out being a whole year away from release date without even being advertised in the shops or being on the shelf of your local stores. Modern Warfare 3 got around 19 thousand preorders in the first month and up to 300 thousand in the first few months around 2 months from it’s release date with fully detailed trailers showing you most of what people want to see. Halo 4 has only shown people a trailer with chief moving through a broken ship with contact with a forerunner gate. Halo 4 is what everybody wanted when Halo wars came out, Halo 4 is what everybody when Halo 3 ODST came out, Halo 4 is what everybody wanted when Halo Reach came out and bungie made the mistake of continually making these games instead of Halo 4. Yes the story had finished but had it really? No chief was still very much alive and cortana too lost in the unkown. This is why reach wasn’t as successful and why Halo 4 will bring to life what made a FPS (First Person Shooter) fun, not run in with one intention and no other motives and kill the first thing in the first second of it’s approach. What kind of battle is that? Really. There’s hardly any skill involved, the only skill is who knows the map and how fast is your reaction time! What is this? Halo made duels fun because they lasted usually 6 seconds or more and people loved jumping around in and out of the action amongst their friends and team members. All that has come of this obsession with real action war is that it requires no creativity other then mimicing the horrible events that happen on our planet everyday. Why do this? Why make it more realistic and how much more, how far do people want it to go? Until we strive to actually kill eachother in real life or our fellow brother countries. What the hell is wrong with that? Why not keep alive a game like Halo based on discovering something new something that is based on the hate amongst eachother and based on the real enemy that lurks out there wanting nothing more then to kill everything in it’s path. A game that is truly unique and special like Halo. Gears of War 3 established the same idea with humans vs aliens but never ventured away from what we already know. So there we have it, would you rather a game based on what we already know and actually hate doing, or would you rather a game based on something out of this world with a mix of adventure and human vs alien combat. It’s generally up to you.
- China wants their wall back
- Halo 4 will never out sell Modern Warfare 3, simply because it is multiplatform and appeals to a much, much wider player base.
So when world wide conflict between countries is finnally finished and they have no games to base real life conflict on what then? They won’t have the ability to make any games based on that. War games with humans vs humans won’t last forever. FPS games like Halo are the future trust me. And call of duty doesn’t have the platforum that lets you create your own maps or vehicles that you can properly drive.
+ How is it that Halo 2 outsold Call Of Duty 4? Really?
Cannot believe we are still with this, people need to understand that these two franchises appeal to two different types of people, while most Call of Duty fans were at one point Halo fans, we Halo fans that have stayed have done so because we understand the kind of game Halo is, both in it’s single player and multiplayer offerings.
Halo is one of the online games with an actual learning curve while games such as Call of Duty are made for accesibility.
Anyway…Halo > Call of Duty all day friends.
WTF is with every1 and sales numbers? Do YOU make money off Halo? No you dont, so why should you care? Sales numbers means appeal not quality, there are tons of great titles out there that are not in the top 10 of any chart that are quality and unique games. The gaming media has brainwashed consumers into thinking sales is what determines how good a game is when that is not the case.
Halo and Call of Duty are very different franchises, yes they are both first person shooters but their audiences and consumers differ. Multi-platforming of such a large product will always outsell a game that is only available on one console. However, in my opinion the biggest reason why Call of Duty currently outsells Halo is down to Call of Duty’s incredibly successful marketing. Why do people also reply with this franchise when talking about modern gaming and shooters? Because its advertised everywhere all the time. Who is it advertised specifically towards? Very young generations.Some could even argue its directed at an age group below than their actual game allows, causing thousands of kids to buy a game just because they think it ‘looks good’. It’s successful, their fan and community base may be not ideal in some peoples eyes but for Treyarch, Infinity Ward etc they are making massive profits.
Halo on the other hand offers a considerably smaller advertisement not just in presentation but audiences. If Halo ever want to outsell rival games such as Call of Duty they need to up their marketing and initial advertisement of their games. The Hype, even if it doesn’t live up to product makes a game sell before people have even played it, it happens every year with the Call of Duty series.
In my opinion, i am a loyal and very dedicated Halo fan but i do play many other games including Call of Duty. As long as 343 deliver a great trilogy and what ever more games (if any) come out from Halo remain a high standard i couldn’t care for sales.
Please use paragraphs.
The problem (if you can call it that) with Halo is it can’t appeal to the same people that play CoD. For whatever reason killing aliens isn’t as fun as customizing your guns so they say -Yoink!- on them.
The Call of Duty franchise is essentially a sports game. It comes out every year, changes the cover art, updates the rosters (guns and perks), and adds a new mode. It doesn’t innovate but it appeals to the masses. People don’t like change.
Bungie took a risk adding AA’s and bloom to Reach, and it blew up in their faces which the backlash of an unhappy community.
In order for H4 to be the success HCE or H2 was it needs to innovate, do what everyone has done, just do it with flawless execution (No that doesn’t mean add perks or loadouts).
That’s why Halo is coming with customisation this time round on weapons. And I couldn’t be bothered adding paragraphs. My main concern is how long Halo will be around for because I love the franchise and series and I absoloutely think that it should be around as long as call of duty because Halo was always an icon in the gaming industry. I don’t hate cod hell I’ve got Modern Warfare 2 and Call Of Duty Black Ops and I don’t hate war games now, I’ve got Battlefield 3. I am just getting annoyed at the fact this is all people want in games now, run in n’ shoot em’ up. Is that honestly all there is too it. And your wrong with change; people like change. If we didn’t like change then our art, graphics, culture, fashion industries would of exsisted and wouldn’t of changed. Everyone likes change at differen’t times and differen’t places.
And sorry to everyone, it’s not an arguement. I just want to get out to people that fear for Halo 4 that it’s doing fine. Depending on how successful the game is does effect the quality of the game and how long it will exsist. It’s not fair that Call Of Duty can eat all the other FPS series’ up and cause them to stop and start something new; another replicate of modern war. It’s happening to commonly. Just think about it.
> Halo and Call of Duty are very different franchises, yes they are both first person shooters but their audiences and consumers differ. Multi-platforming of such a large product will always outsell a game that is only available on one console. However, in my opinion the biggest reason why Call of Duty currently outsells Halo is down to Call of Duty’s incredibly successful marketing. Why do people also reply with this franchise when talking about modern gaming and shooters? Because its advertised everywhere all the time. Who is it advertised specifically towards? Very young generations.Some could even argue its directed at an age group below than their actual game allows, causing thousands of kids to buy a game just because they think it ‘looks good’. It’s successful, their fan and community base may be not ideal in some peoples eyes but for Treyarch, Infinity Ward etc they are making massive profits.
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> Halo on the other hand offers a considerably smaller advertisement not just in presentation but audiences. If Halo ever want to outsell rival games such as Call of Duty they need to up their marketing and initial advertisement of their games. The Hype, even if it doesn’t live up to product makes a game sell before people have even played it, it happens every year with the Call of Duty series.
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> In my opinion, i am a loyal and very dedicated Halo fan but i do play many other games including Call of Duty. As long as 343 deliver a great trilogy and what ever more games (if any) come out from Halo remain a high standard i couldn’t care for sales.
Thanks for your input. I totally agree with you.
> Halo and Call of Duty are very different franchises, yes they are both first person shooters but their audiences and consumers differ. Multi-platforming of such a large product will always outsell a game that is only available on one console. However, in my opinion the biggest reason why Call of Duty currently outsells Halo is down to Call of Duty’s incredibly successful marketing. Why do people also reply with this franchise when talking about modern gaming and shooters? Because its advertised everywhere all the time. Who is it advertised specifically towards? Very young generations.Some could even argue its directed at an age group below than their actual game allows, causing thousands of kids to buy a game just because they think it ‘looks good’. It’s successful, their fan and community base may be not ideal in some peoples eyes but for Treyarch, Infinity Ward etc they are making massive profits.
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> Halo on the other hand offers a considerably smaller advertisement not just in presentation but audiences. If Halo ever want to outsell rival games such as Call of Duty they need to up their marketing and initial advertisement of their games. The Hype, even if it doesn’t live up to product makes a game sell before people have even played it, it happens every year with the Call of Duty series.
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> In my opinion, i am a loyal and very dedicated Halo fan but i do play many other games including Call of Duty. As long as 343 deliver a great trilogy and what ever more games (if any) come out from Halo remain a high standard i couldn’t care for sales.
Thanks for your response. I totally agree with you.
> Bungie took a risk adding AA’s and bloom to Reach, and it blew up in their faces with the backlash of an unhappy community.
Blew up in their faces? Doubt that…just because you don’t like those features, dosn’t mean it wasn’t successful. Granted over time people grew tired of them, but EVERYONE enjoys being able to sprint and show how accurate their shots are. Armor abilities and weapon bloom are not failures at all.
Well knowing how Call of Duty is milked every year it won’t matter about Modern Warfare 3 because every year they come out with a new game. And again what others are saying. Cod is multiplatformed so it will outsell Halo 4. Personally I do not like Cod because lets say you just joined blackops multiplayer and literally have the default guns. How is it fair when everyone is a 15th prestige and have like the most awesome guns. Also it is too easy to be killed because it’s pretty much instant kill. Halo has more skill. But anyway I know I’m going to get so many rants about this and this is kind of off topic so
TOODLES 
They’re two completely different games and i don’t think they should be compared to each other. Ever.
> 1. China wants their wall back
> 2. Halo 4 will never out sell Modern Warfare 3, simply because it is multiplatform and appeals to a much, much wider player base.
Lol’d at #1. And I agree with point #2.
> So when world wide conflict between countries is finnally finished and they have no games to base real life conflict on what then? They won’t have the ability to make any games based on that. War games with humans vs humans won’t last forever. FPS games like Halo are the future trust me. And call of duty doesn’t have the platforum that lets you create your own maps or vehicles that you can properly drive.
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> + How is it that Halo 2 outsold Call Of Duty 4? Really?
because every COD before COD4 sucked big ones. And every COD after COD4 sucked, but now it has a huge fan base because COD4 got it off the ground.
also, your post makes no sense.
MW3 and Halo 4 wont be in competition with one another. COD makes new crap every year, by 2 decembers from now, they will be on “COD: -Yoink!-” or “COD: MW4” ww4 edition.
I really can’t emphasis this enough…
tl;dr.
“Paragraphs”, that’s all I’m going to say.
Would you please write in paragraphs next time…?