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• A real eye-roller of a blog post...
  Some of these comments defy description. Halo 3 is a great game, but it is not any more a revolutionary system-mover than Halo 2. Halo 2 was extremely popular, the hype being unseen in the gaming world before. It's popularity even made Microsoft profitable for a quarter. Yet what did that do for them in the long-run? It gave them a short lead over the Gamecube in worldwide sales, and that's about it.
  
  Yet I am supposed to believe that Halo 3 is going to be a fundamental audience expander for Microsoft -- a hardcore FPS that fits the same hardcore crowd that was full of fans of the original XBOX?
  
  And what is this about the Wii? "Software and only software" we are told is going to decide the winners this generation. But what KIND of software? Why one kind over the other? The 360 has had the same sort of software in the same vein as Halo since it debuted almost two years ago. It has already trumped both the PS3 and Wii in software titles available -- but that hasn't ensured their "watershed" moment even after being available a year ahead of the competition. The truth is, it is the kind of software that will move a system that matters here. And guess what, it isn't the same kind of software that moved PS2s seven years ago. And it certainly isn't the same kind of software that left the 360 in a less-than-firm second place last-gen either. In reply to: "Why 'Halo 3' will decide the Xbox 360's fate"

  September 26, 2007

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