The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports that Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter was overwhelmingly impressed by Halo 3's first-day sales, adding that the figure was "probably unprecendented," ahead of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and other games with huge first-day sales. Pachter forecast Halo 3 will push Xbox 360 sales to 400,000-500,000 units in the US this month, up from 277,000 units in August.
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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
with Lair, heavenly Sword from Sony, and halo 3 from Microsoft. I'd like to see how much these hyped titles really affect the consoles. But 400 is a good number from Morgan. Although the wii might not take second place this month, or we will see
from now until january we should see some real good numbers from sony and microsoft. it will be interesting to see how this holiday season pans out with all the games coming out on both systems
that H3 will sell more consoles, I know thats really going out on a limb there. Anyways, Pachter is an ass, just about everything he says is BS.
I hate this guy and his forecasts are always way off. Yet, I can't stop reading his Forecasts. Kind of like a moth drawn to the light.
Michael is so full of crap that you take anything he says seriously anymore. Just wait for the NPD numbers for September.