It’s no secret that Ninja is the trendiest gamer in the world right now. It’s also no secret that he is a former Halo professional. He’s accumulated a large following of over 10 million people & 100,000’s of people tune in to his streams every single day.
Now, like many of us here. Deep down inside, Ninja LOVES the Halo Franchise. He’s dedicated much more time into playing Halo than he has into playing Fortnite.
When Halo Infinite comes out, he’ll play it. Thus, he’ll stream it. And if he likes it, he’s going to keep playing/streaming it.
My theory is: Ninja is going to help revive the Halo Franchise by streaming Halo Infinite. Thus, the Fortnite trend will fade and Halo will come back to its throne.
I think you’re living in a dream world. Infinite’s success has nothing to do with Ninja, but how good the game is. As for Ninja streaming Infinite, does he stream any other games or is it purely Fortnite. Even if he likes Infinite I think he should stick with milking Fortnite as long as he can, make that bank.
Honestly, weird as it is… he could be a factor. It would take the alignment of a couple planets, but it’s not implausible. If he’s still popular, if Infinite ends up being enjoyable for others to watch, if he really takes to it and becomes an ardent spokesperson for it, he could convince millions of people to consider buying an Xbox and Infinite. The role he’s in isn’t (nauseatingly) called “influencer” for nothing. These figures are, slowly but very steadily, becoming the marketing face of video games. I don’t doubt for a second that when Microsoft is about to release the game they’ll carefully curate a selection of let’s players and streamers who they hope will play, enjoy, and present the game in a positive light. Ninja may end up being one of them.
Of course a popular person endorsing a product can significantly improve the success of that product under the right conditions. However, dethroning another extremely popular game is a highly unlikely event that would require an influence of whole another magnitude. So, while I consider it plausible that someone with a large following could make Halo more trendy, the likelihood decreases exponentially with the amount of trendiness, and thus I don’t see Halo becoming the next Fortnite even if a popular streamer’s endorsement might help it a bit.
No, but he will will probably increase the popularity of Halo Infinite for awhile though, especially if he likes it and streams it a bunch, as you said.
Unfortunately for Ninja, being the top streamer on Twitch is a blessing and a curse. The blessing is obvious, but in order to stay there he needs to stream the top games which is Fortnite at the moment. If he decided to stream Halo for most of his streams, he’ll lose the majority of his fanbase which mainly consists of people who watch Fortnite. Knowing his personality from watching his stream regularly since 2011, I don’t think he’s going to risk that even though he loves Halo.
Unless Infinite has some kind of original trilogy revival in popularity, it’s not gonna stay popular long enough for someone like Ninja to stream it for a decent amount of time after the launch time period due to some games losing their Twitch popularity once the new game feel wears off which Halo has a history of it happening to it.
I think Halo had its Fortnite-like reign from 2001-2003. The torch has been passed on again and again since then. As much as I love Halo, I don’t see Halo ever returning to the phenomenon it once was. These things happen naturally; Mario, Doom, Halo, Call of Duty, Minecraft, Fortnite, and whatever else has held the torch. No single streamer (that I’ve never even heard of) can choose the game of the time. It’ll happen on its own.
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Same here, I never heard of him until I read this thread. As for Halo Infinite becoming more popular than Fornite, good word of mouth and being fun to play will help, however, Fortnite being free to play and multi platform probably helps too, I doubt Halo Infinite will be either.
Making a good game had the highest chance of reviving the series.
But sadly, I think games’ hype are over. For Halo, the peak hype was during the Xbox 360 days. I love the Xbox 360 way more than the One.
But look at the One era vs the 360 era:
360:
-midnight launch parties for games
-people talked in the game
-only way to get the game was physically
-population counter
One:
way less launch parties
-no one really communicates with new/random players anymore
-owning a game now is pretty much downloaded to your console
-you don’t know how many people are playing your game
All in all,
a streamer won’t revive a game series and in my opinion the glory days of online gaming were pre Xbox One/PS4, and Halo was great but there’s still a chance it could get better.
We’ll see when the new game comes out!
He’d definitely introduce new people into the franchise,but returning it back it’s glory days? That’s a big no.
The actual quality of the game is the only thing capable of that.
Nope. Fortnite made Ninja; Ninja didn’t make Fortnite. The fact of the matter is, Halo barely appeals to its core audience anymore let alone the wider demographic, and that’s not going to change just because one Twitch streamer starts playing it. In all likelihood, even if Halo 3—the best and most popular game of its time—released now, it probably wouldn’t see the numbers it saw in 2007—simply because that sort of game doesn’t appeal to the kids these days. Fornite, with its three polygons and plethora of microtransactions, is what’s in vogue for whatever reason.