Next Week Halo 2 for the console, and he following week Halflife 2 for the P.C. will be on sale, OPne of the wags around here says that Halo 2 will outsell Halflife 2 by five times. Is he on crack or an astute marketing genius? Me? I'm buying HL 2 because I don't own a console.

Scott

Halo 2 for both. I've never played Halflife and couldn't care less about the sequel. plus i prefer consoles for gaming.

Console games always vastly outsell PC games. Predictions for GTA: San Andreas are around the insane 18 million mark. Which is staggering but not unachievable. I dont think a PC game has ever come close to that number. ( could be wrong here )

I'll probably pick up HL2 the second its around. Edge gave it 10/10. The pcgamer review ( 98% ) really renewed my interest in it. Ive been waiting a loooong time, and I think the whole Orwellian world and its story is just really compelling.

I'll hold off on Halo2 for a bit til I hear more about it. Too much other stuff to play right now.

Heh, interesting that the 3 people who said they wanted HL2 more, said that Halo 2 will sell more.

I am one of those 3! I think it's probably true. More people buy games for consoles these days, and while both HL2 and Halo2 are hotly anticipated and will both sell hugely, I think the mere fact that HL2 is not a console game will mean it doesn't shift as many units.

But you never know!

MoP

I've not interest in Halo 2, didn't have much interest in the first Halo. I can't grasp FPS's for consoles - just doesn't work for me.

I'm a huge fan of Half-Life and the mod community. Aswell as Valve's support for that community - which cannot be said for Halo (and I'm sure the same could/will be said for Halo 2). As for number of units sold, that'll go to Halo 2 I'm sure... as someone has already pointed out console titles always sell more than PC titles.

Dammit Scott, where's the "you can choose both" option for the second question? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

(i've already preordered both)... as to which i want to play more... well, halo's next week.. so that's taking my top position for right now... depending on how fast i get through it (especially with the amount of my time dedicated to GTA:SA currently), we shall see...

but then again, i (currently) am able to get at steam on my work pc, and it plays CS:S amazingly well, so i may get in HL2 at work and H2 at home... we shall see....

on another note.. i forsee HL2 outselling Halo 2 in the long run... Halo 2's only for xbox (until it comes out for PC), it's really only a one shot deal.. HL2's gonna keep selling for a long while due to add-ons and people slowly upgrading to spec.

hl2 for both, you've got the people after a half-life sequel, plus all the cs psychos. half-life (including the expansion packs, which i don't think should count) sold 8 million copies, halo sold 5 million, so we'll probably see figures around the same.
looking forward to hl2 more simply because the first was great, except for xen. and it's got a gravity gun.
didn't like halo as much as some people did, hopefully the sequel will be pleasantly surprising, shame they've not done away with the stupid two gun limit, though.

i put halo2 for both. console games tend to sell more then pc games these days, especially big name console games. halo 2 has over 1.5 million pre-orders, and pre-orders tend to make up only about 10% or so of total sales. half-life will be big, but not halo 2 big.

and i didnt really like half life 1 but loved halo so im looking forward to halo more.

halo still sells in the 100k range everymonth....

more people have access to it, while others will need to spend more money to get their home system up to HL2's min specs.

they both are going to sell like monsters though.

i voted that i'm looking forward to HL2 more, but that halo 2 will definitely sell better. it's just reaching a broader audience, as gabe on PA pointed out, Halo wasn't the greatest FPS ever seen but it was one of the first ones that a lot of newer gamers out there have really been exposed to. so i think devotion goes a long way; halo was the 'first' for a lot of people and it means a lot to them because of it, in addition to all the people who just think that halo was a good game.


i'm hoping that valve is able to sell a lot of copies on steam (they got my money) and that it actually goes to valve instead of VU.

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the console game will always win since pc games can more easily be pirated and distrubuted over the internet, hell there is already a workin method to play cs source on steam for free without even using steam, no doubt hl2 will also fall under the same fate, which will hurt its number of copies sold

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the console game will always win since pc games can more easily be pirated and distrubuted over the internet, hell there is already a workin method to play cs source on steam for free without even using steam, no doubt hl2 will also fall under the same fate, which will hurt its number of copies sold

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I would totally agree with you, but the xbox is NOT a console. Microsoft would like you to think that it is though. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I can't be bothered to care either way. I was never impressed by Halo, and I'm not impressed by Half-Life 2 either. Hell I'll probably end up neve rplaying either of them [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Well, Halo 2 is the sequel to the (IMO awful) only game the XBox had for a long time. HL 2 is the sequel to the mst popular online game available...
I'd bet on HL2 since the XBox has a smaller userbase (GTASA was on the PS2 which outsold the XBox by about 250%) and because of the CS junkies.

I don't have an XBox so I'm not interested in Halo 2 (well, okay, that and the fact that I consider Halo 1 a bad game). HL2 isn't high on my interest list, either, but unlike Halo 2 I might get it for the mods.

I am looking forward to HL2. I wasn't too fond of Halo but then again that was the first time I ever tried a FPS on a console.
HL2 I am buying blind but Halo 2 I wanna testride first before I will buy spend 60 Euros on it.

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I would totally agree with you, but the xbox is NOT a console. Microsoft would like you to think that it is though. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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yawn, look who is trying to be clever...

Parents buy console games for kids for Christmas. Gamers buy PC games for other gamers for Christmas. Halo 2 will outsell HL2, but that in no way makes it a better game; it's just more accessable.

Frank the Avenger

Gamers also buy console games for each other. That whole "PC is for gamers, console is for children" stuff is propaganda spewed forth by PC fanboys.

Even if gamers buy console games for other gamers, parents buy more of them and gamers buy less of them, since they also buy PC games.

And I didn't say anything about consoles being for children, just that parents find them more accessable. Parents might see it as consoles are for kids, like cartoons, but I don't see how that makes me a PC fanboy.

Frank the Avenger

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the console game will always win since pc games can more easily be pirated and distrubuted over the internet, hell there is already a workin method to play cs source on steam for free without even using steam, no doubt hl2 will also fall under the same fate, which will hurt its number of copies sold

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it has a controller, you install nothing, and it hooks into your tv. it's a console.

I would totally agree with you, but the xbox is NOT a console. Microsoft would like you to think that it is though. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I would totally agree with you, but the xbox is NOT a console. Microsoft would like you to think that it is though. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Alright, I'll bite. Explain to me exactly why the Xbox isn't a console. I hope this is something more interesting than "it has a hard drive" or "it runs Windows".

its made by m$... things made by m$ only have one purpose... to weaken the human resistence when Bill Gates releases his army of clone soldiers...

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Alright, I'll bite. Explain to me exactly why the Xbox isn't a console. I hope this is something more interesting than "it has a hard drive" or "it runs Windows".

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i also need to hear this, better be something better than M$ IS TEH EVAL!!!!!