Reaction to NPD report finds industry watchers sullen about Sony's console; Halo 3 accused of cannibalizing sales.
"The most curious result was that all other games severely underperformed the prediction market's expectations, indicating that Halo 3 had a substantial negative effect on other major titles across the board," Jesse Divnich said. "Games that were especially impacted were the Xbox 360 games Stranglehold, BioShock, and Madden NFL 08."
september was a pretty dry month for ps3 sales. the anticipation of halo 3 would obviously overshadow anything positive for ps3. no arguments that september was bad.
however, i can't wait to see october sales though. the price cuts and high profile releases should buoy ps3 sales. heck, like 3 days after the price cut went official, sales jumped 700%...
Halo 3 got less than 10 hours of my time. 7 hours for campaing and a few MP matches. I am so bored of it already and went back to gears of war cause it is simply a much better game. Its too bad that much better games got fallout from the halo hype machine. I hear it alot online in gears that people are dissappointed in halo 3.
halo is a good game single player not so good but m.p. fantastic graphics do not matter they were good enough last gen
Not only does it negativly impact sales of other consoles but, it negatively impacts sales of software on it's own console. This one game screws up everthing for a month or two. It will be interesting to see how things level out after a PS3 price drop and the initial sales frenzy of Halo 3's launch.
Kinda obvious it would have an effect on 360 softwares sales the most.
Most people buy one game or so a month. They have to choose btw the gaes then.