Comments on: Will Halo3 help Microsoft secure the Digital Living Room? http://gigaom.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:15:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joshua loves Halo3 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170391 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:33:20 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170391 halo3 is going to be the best game in the world i think it will any ways if yall dont like halo3 it should kill you for saying that halo3 is going to be the future of all first person veiw games cant wait tell halo wars and halo 4 cause my bro told me that they were going to make a halo4 they say that their going to make halo tell its goes to halo10 now wat do yall think thats going to look like u tll me well if u love halo3 alot and i mean alot just go to http://www.myspace.com and look for the name jb or look wth useing full name which is Joshua Bulgrin kk so if u love it jst send me a friend reqeust or if u dnt have a myspace account make one then send me a friendreqeust kk so hope i see alot of friend reqeust on my myspace well gotta go ill tlk l8er bye bitches jst jokin yall arent bitches yall are my halo3 lovers bye halo3 lovers maybe see yall halo3 live on xbow live my gamertag is (retrotaytay) bye i hope i see alot of friend reqeust l8er boysssaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Chris http://gigaom.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170390 Wed, 16 May 2007 22:58:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170390 Jon:
““but just to put them into perspective, 10 million 360 owners represents only 6% of the total number of consoles”

While it’s important to take the total market into perspective, no offering from Nintendo or Sony has come close to these numbers.”

Right you are! Neither Nintendo’s Wii nor the PS3 has sold as poorly as the Xbox 360 in the first months of release ;) In fact, only the original PS1 has had a worse adoption rate in the first 4 months (and that does include a holiday shopping season for the 360): http://kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo/charticle-the-first-four-months-249629.php

]]> By: brklynsurfer http://gigaom.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170388 Mon, 14 May 2007 17:35:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170388 I can’t wait for Halo 3. I absolutely love the game. I have never played the online multi-player part of the game. I think that graphics are not as important as story and game-play. I want to play Halo 3 so that I can finish the fight. The multi-player part will be key to keeping people on the XBox360 network. Bungie can only ruin the game if the story is drawn out to another sequel. After the disastrous ending in Halo 2, I don’t think i could take that again. Game-play and the immersion experience are what has always attracted me to Halo 3.

]]> By: shmootzie brown http://gigaom.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170389 Mon, 14 May 2007 17:11:32 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170389 Microsoft: Four million pre-orders for ‘Halo 3′ – digitalspy.co.uk (30.90 +0.32) : According to digitalspy, Halo 3 on the Xbox 360 has received over four million pre-orders, according to online reports. Officials at Gamestop (GME), EB Games and Funcoland stores in the United States are said to have confirmed the figure, which is far and away the largest in gaming history. Halo 2 enjoyed 1.5 million pre-orders before its release but this latest news easily eclipses that.

]]> By: Andy http://gigaom.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170387 Mon, 14 May 2007 09:15:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170387 Yeah – 10M is the number of consoles that Microsoft have stuffed into the supply channel, NOT the number that are sitting in homes connected to HDTVs.

]]> By: Nick Hawkins http://gigaom.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170386 Mon, 14 May 2007 03:40:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170386 For me, I’d be looking at the Xbox360 as a gaming console. If I see that Halo 3 is quite an awesome game and that it’s simple enough for me to grasp, then I’d probably lean in the direction of buying the 360 and as a byproduct of having the 360, I could leverage that into a totally cool media center. But not everyone is going to look at the 360 as a potential media center. It’s a console – you pick it up, you play it, then you put it back down.

And Blake, I think that Microsoft is thinking long term than quarterly/yearly projections. They’re not playing the same game as most analysts are. You throw too much at the consumer and they get confused easily. Step 1 was Xbox Live for the first Xbox, Step 2 is the Xbox360 Live world with forays into digital media. Step 3 will be the Xbox successor with more hooks into content and services secondary to being a gaming platform first.

]]> By: Jon http://gigaom.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170385 Mon, 14 May 2007 02:13:31 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170385 “but just to put them into perspective, 10 million 360 owners represents only 6% of the total number of consoles”

While it’s important to take the total market into perspective, no offering from Nintendo or Sony has come close to these numbers.

“Despite Xbox Live boasting the largest online console community to date, it doesn’t appear to be gaining ubiquitous traction, at least not yet.”

Yet it’s leaps and bounds ahead of their competitors, Sony and Nintendo. You make it sound like it’s just about to be overcome by another company.

]]> By: jbelkin http://gigaom.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170384 Mon, 14 May 2007 01:59:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170384 10 million sold is not a number MS has thrown out but it’s really 10 million SHIPPED. You can’t rely on MS to give SALES numbers. NPD pegs actual sales at 5.5 million.

]]> By: Blake Snow http://gigaom.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170381 Sun, 13 May 2007 19:58:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170381 Subhash:

My only “prediction” is that Halo 3 (which I really enjoy) will only appeal to gamers. It will sell tons and like Everton says it doesn’t have to “win awards;” the brand will sell itself.

That’s great when looking at the machine as a game console, not so great when factoring in Microsoft’s hopes in controller the digital living room.

Both Microsoft and Sony have a more difficult time furthering their console agendas because their marketing suggests a desire to sell two very different things; games AND a lot of other stuff that gamers may or may not want.

The more complex a value proposition, the slower the sales and more confusing to your target audience(s).

]]> By: Stalin http://gigaom.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170383 Sun, 13 May 2007 18:32:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/will-halo3-help-microsoft-secure-the-digital-living-room/#comment-170383 Cmon guys, how can you delete my comment for asking one simple straught qn.

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