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GamerMetrics: Halo 3 Cannibalized Stranglehold, 360 Games Sales

IGN GamerMetrics analyst Nick Williams recently took a look back at the predictions GamerMetrics made for Xbox 360 titles based on analysis of four primary factors -- awareness, engagement, purchase intent and game quality -- ahead of each title's launch with the aim of predicting the success of upcoming games.

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Published: 697 days 19 hours ago | News | Xbox 360

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MK_Red - 697 days 21 hours ago

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Well, all other publishers had other 360 games that did great except Midway whose Strangehold was their biggest title. They better put a lot of effort and money into making of the next Mortal Kombat because after UT, it's mostly all they got.

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toughNAME - 697 days 20 hours ago

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Halo 3 being released in September was no secret. They knew what they were getting into and could have prevented it by moving the release date up or back.

The publishers signed their own death warrant

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MK_Red - 697 days 20 hours ago

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True. It was a complete suicide and yet many publishers went against Halo 3 and lost. Seriously, they could have released them in many other windows but they went head to head with Master Chief.
It's like indie and art house movies going against Spider-man and Transformers at box-office.

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ravinash - 697 days 10 hours ago

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2.2 - sales of games arn't like tickets sales to the movie box office.

If you buy a game and play it all month and not look at other games during that period, the games that came out during that month are still on the shelves when you come in the next month.
Its not like a movie where its there one month and gone the next.
I'm sure that Stranglehold did lose sales for that month, but if its a good game and people want it, then they will be back.

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MK_Red - 697 days 10 hours ago

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True about how Games stay on shelves but let's not forget that movies only take 2-3 hours while some games may take weeks to finish or even month's based on person's free hour and by the time he/she finishes a game, a whole lot of newer and better titles may have arrived.

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eagle21 - 697 days 13 hours ago

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3 - Even games like PGR4: 140k worldwide since launch were hit by Halo on 360.

The games huge, simple as that.

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 697 days 11 hours ago

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Well don't agree about the online part in Halo 3. It's really, really good. Point is though, the gameplay is your kind of gameplay or not.

FOr me the Gears of War online fits better with coversystem etc., no insane jumps and so on.

Others prefer Halo 3. It's just what you personally like

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navig8or - 697 days 11 hours ago

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5 - I didn't like Halo 3

Hey, I just want to say that XBOX360 delivered this year, will 2008 be the year of the PS3, Hell Yeah!!!!!

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DJ - 697 days 5 hours ago

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7 - I'm sure a lot of 360 devs

are pissed at Halo's release. That, and the fact that they also tried to avoid a GTA launch that never occured.

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