Craig H: "And just for the record, the next time someone wants to rattle off random numbers from some company’s sales to you, simply point out that the original Super Mario Bros on the NES sold 40.23 million copies alone; and in total the Super Mario Bros franchise has topped well over 152 million. By comparison, Sony and Xbox are still in diapers when it comes to a successful franchise. And maybe that seems appropriate based on the behavior of their fanbase."
Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.
Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.
Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.
The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?
I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*
Ah yes, Shadow Complex! Good indies back in the day. Summer of Arcade. I enjoyed Trials Evolution as well.
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.
The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.
360 had Namco hitters AC6 and RR6... both quality titles. You should at least bust out the 360 for AC6 if you can score the flight stick. Its great.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
It's a nostalgia peice same reason we get thousands of YouTube videos on sega genisis. Something people have fond memories for but the era is long gone.
It's xboxs golden year imo it was their genisis years the time where they stuck it to the market leaders Sony.
They stuck nothing. Sony screwed themselves giving Xbox an opening. They would have gotten the usual smack down if the PS3 had launched at $399 and was easier to develop for.
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
Now there's no arguing with real numbers. People can say what they want, but Mario is still the king!
It's funny when people compare sales numbers, they magically leave out Mario because he beats them all.
most milked franchise ever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
sales =/= quality
If they pumped out 10 Halo and GT games a year, then they wuld do it to.
"Super Mario Bros on the NES sold 40.23 million copies alone; and in total the Super Mario Bros franchise has topped well over 152 million. By comparison, Sony and Xbox are still in diapers when it comes to a successful franchise. And maybe that seems appropriate based on the behavior of their fanbase."
Calling out the Sony and MS fanbase for getting in a frenzy over sales...... and he's doing the same thing. SMH SMH.
His point would be more valid if this wasnt the 2nd Nintendo fanboy outlash. It would be more valid if the initial argument had anything to do with Nintendo. That would at least give the author SOME reason to feel the need to retaliate. It would be more valid if those 152 million mario sales werent spread across 152 different mario titles.
Can we please kill debate now?