Citing figures from L.A. Times, Keith Stuart writes in Guardian Unlimited and puts a perspective on the confused, unspecific myth that the games business is 'worth more' than movies these days. Stuart points out that Halo 3 will beat movies in profit, if not in revenue. The reason: a Hollywood blockbuster costs much more in production and marketing, and Hollywood stars and talents take considerable cuts out of the movie's earnings.
Whereas a blockbuster movie like Spider-Man 3 has a profit margin of around 46%, Halo 3 can reasonably hope for a whopping 90%. Spider-Man 3 cost Sony $400 million to produce and release in theaters, an additional $100 million to produce and release for DVDs, and more in profit participation and residual payments made to the Hollywood stars and talents involved; Halo 3 cost Microsoft a little more than $60 million to develop and market.
(Stuart is a freelance writer for The Guardian, Official PlayStation Magazine and Pocket Gamer as well as the digitally distributed handheld gaming mag, HGZine.)
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
I am getting absolutely sick of all these Halo 3 articles. 1/2 the pending news section is Halo 3, a 1/4 to a 1/3 of the home page is Halo 3....aaargh. Oh, 'Master Chief prefers ketchup to bbq sauce' oh, 'Master Chief's eyes are visible through visor' oh, 'Master Chief is a complete queer and he buys OK magazine'....WHO THE HELL CARES!!! Not everyone likes Halo that much
and cuddle up in bed with your PS3. You damn sure can't do anything else with it.
Maybe, it will listen to your whining.
ill be playin WARHAWK rokin dudes in jets in sh*t which halo3 cant so cause it sucks, srry your overhyped BS, just digs yourselves deeper
ITS ALL A DAMN LIE! THERE IS NO WAY A GAME CAN BEAT A MOVIE EVER! THE titanic got over 1000000000 in sales! YOU CANT BEAT THAT
i dont like halo, but others do thats fine, but to say it makes more than a movie and to quote spiderman 3 as worse in sales is blatantly stupid you dont know the profit margins at all and the other problem is that worldwide spiderman 3 sales kill pretty much any video game including the all coveted halo i only recently made this account the other day but i realize that pretty much everyone who posts here like to think they are true gamers when they are a bunch of biased console horse. seriously very few of you people are probably over 16 and that is being generous i now have to find a new place to look for gaming news as this site is a piece of sh%t. i could leave a comment on how i think one console is better than another but im not an a$$hole