Report Details Most Anticipated Games by Consumers
Topping the list if Bungie and Microsoft's Halo: Reach (Xbox 360), topping both the "Awareness Index" and "Purchase Intent Index". Super Mario Galaxy 2 comes next, but has the highest "Recession Proof Index", which means that it was the game most mentioned as a first, second, or third purchase by the gamer.
Other highly-anticipated titles are Gears of War 3 (Xbox 360), the unannounced Legend of Zelda sequel (Wii), and Fable III (Xbox 360). All three of Blizzard's upcoming titles (Diablo III, StarCraft II, and World of WarCraft: Cataclysm) are within the survey's top 15.
Halo: Reach and Gears of War 3, ranked first and third respectively, are battling for the most anticipated Xbox 360 title. Unsurprisingly, there is a large overlap between the audience of these two marquee shooter franchises.52 percent of those who plan to buy Halo: Reach also plan to buy Gears of War 3, and 51 percent of those who plan to buy Gears of War 3 also plan to buy Halo: Reach.
Williams suggests that Microsoft should distance these two releases to avoid cannibalizing sales between both franchises. This is precisely what Microsoft is doing with Halo: Reach scheduled for a fall release and Gears of War 3 coming in April 2011.
The second part of the survey dealt with games that have already been released. Sony's God of War III and the PS3 version of Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIII topped that list followed by a trio of Xbox 360 titles: BioShock 2, Mass Effect 2, and Splinter Cell: Conviction.
Time will tell if this data is accurate when the April sales numbers are released later this month from the NPD Group.
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clok1966
replyThis just in, People like to play and pay for same game many times over, EA, Activision, Sony, Nintendo rejoice, management of said companies buy new super cars and planes,snort coke out of strippers navels and joke that they can fire the talent that created the first in the series as people seem to just buy the same basic gameplay with a #2 sometimes a 3 and even 4 after the original name anyways.
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i hate sequels too! why the hell do we need more if the first was so good??
i would have been much happier never playing horde mode in Gears2, never enjoying the extra exploration and chaos of just cause 2, never playing street fighter4, tekken 2-6, final fantasy 2-13, etc etc.
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looking through his comments, he seems to hate everything to with gaming except posting comments about how crappy they all are.
THINK YOU NEED A NEW HOBBY, CLOK1966!!-
no, lots of great games, Demons Souls, Team Fortress, Psyconaughts, Sacrafice, Bioshock, COH, Halo (as far as console FPS goes), I could go on about a many more.
To be honest I have no problemwith a million halo games, just seems silly to keep paying $60 for um.
But you are right, i seldom comment on good things, only stuff i feel is silly. And i think you will notice I dont comment that often, 1 time a month maybe? I will try to post only flowers and roses from now on :) But i must admit saying anything bad about Halo, WoW, MW2, etc.. seems to really bring out the protective part of some people.-
i am quite defensive when something i feel is genuinely good is unfairly attacked.
im not blinded by brand names and even though a sequel of a good game may get me excited, i wont actually buy it unless i know that its worth it.
i think halo gets a lot of unfair stick as its an easy target for people as its on xbox exclusive, a console game, published by MS and has had quite a few iterations.
however it annoys me when people bash it who havn't played it at all. and it gives me the urge to have a go at these people in order for them to maybe think twice about shouting rubbish about things they know nothing about.
i will quite happily converse with someone who has played a game i love and hated it just to hear their views.
however, your "sequels shouldn't happen" comment did set me off a bit. some sequels shouldn't happen. but i would welcome another halo, or gears of war or tekken, just for the chance that it is better than its predecessors and is a game worth playing.-
hmm must have missed the "sequels shouldn't happen" part of my post, when you use quotes its for when i said it and your are repeating it. And I'm pretty sure I never said it (looks at thread) nope. I said in a sarcastic way that Sequels are getting too common, new IP's are rare and Sequels are generaly the same old thing with a new gun , and new maps. Again in a sarcastic way. I also mentioned how big companies are crapping on the people who created these IP's. One thing i should point out HALO was created before MS bought Bungie (ms just talked bungie into a X-Box only thing with boatloads of money (I would have taken the boatload of money too, no harm in that)), so its Not a MS product, but a MS distrbuted product. And the current Sequel is also not a MS product as Bungie is no longer Owned by MS. HALO gets alot of Flack becuase there are lots of great FPS and Halo cant compare to -some- of them. As I mentioed HALO is pretty much the CONSOLE FPS that defined how to do it, and was (maybe still is depending on who you ask) the Best Console shooter. My honest opinion of HALO, good game, limiting me to 2 weapons seems like a step backwards, the same EXACT hallway a couple hundered times is also a step back. But the fluid gameplay, great online gameplay, pretty OK (for its time) AI (in singel player). SO HALO is OK in my book, ODST is just a glorified MAP PACK at full game price. Reach? No idea, but it is a sequel. And i own um all and have played um all (except REACH).
Incedently, i thought pet rocks where silly too (and they sold more of them then HALO) so I guess I'm probebly wrong on this too.
But you win, I didnt want to argue it, HALO and all its Sequels ARE wonderfull, please buy them!
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