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Orange Box sales eating into Halo 3 sales - Shocking!

Posted by LOC on 12 November 2007 - 22:11 · 12 comments & 8041 views

With shooters like BioShock, Halo 3, The Orange Box and Call of Duty 4 hitting the market within close range of one another, companies have had to convince consumers to choose their game over competitors. After all, not all shooter fans can drop a few hundred dollars at once.

Because of perceived sales cannibalization within the shooter genre, The simExchange (a virtual videogame stock trading system used to predict industry trends) dropped its October predictions for Halo 3 from 1.4 million sold during the month to 738,000 units, down 47 percent.

"The cannibalization theory can be seen as Halo 3 sales expectations declined while expectations for Orange Box increased," states Jesse Divnich of The simExchange.

"This phenomenon will not only hinder first-person shooter sales this holiday season but will likely play as a barrier to those AAA titles pushed back into Q1 of 2008—as if being delayed wasn't bad enough on sales."

Released in early October, Valve's highly-rated Orange Box, which includes Half-Life 2, two additional episodes, Portal and Team Fortress 2, is by no means keeping the Master Chief down when looking at the big picture. Halo 3 launched September 25 and had worldwide sales of $300 million in its first week alone. But with intense competition within the genre, ongoing Halo 3 sales have been affected, according to the report.

Divnich said BioShock sales saw a similar decline after the release of Halo 3. BioShock launched just ahead of Halo 3 in August.

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(2 replies) #1 Posted by X'tyfe on 12 Nov 2007 - 22:33: "yawn"

halo is nothing but hype. make way for a real game like half-life

#2 Posted by richardsim7 on 12 Nov 2007 - 22:41: Here here!

-Rich-

(1 reply) #3 Posted by daveoc64 on 12 Nov 2007 - 23:39: Surely it just follows logically that when a new game comes out older ones (and don't forget everyone owns Halo 3 now! just sell less.

I guess Call of Duty 4 is now eating into The Orange Box.

#4 Posted by JoeC on 13 Nov 2007 - 01:51: I bought the Orange Box purely for Portal, that game alone is worth the money Still yet to play with Gordon Freeman

#5 Posted by admf on 13 Nov 2007 - 01:54: Halo really does seem extremely overhyped to me, overall. Probably because it was the first of it's kind to appear on a console, I can only guess. It just never stood up to Unreal or Vavle's online shooters, to me.

#6 Posted by virtualmadden on 13 Nov 2007 - 05:38: Story wise Half Life is better, but these days I gotta have an addicting multiplayer. Orange Box does a good job with TF2, but it still pales in comparison to COD4 and Halo 3. I have to admit, Halo's story is limp and COD4's is above average.

#7 Posted by Aahz on 13 Nov 2007 - 06:02: 5 games which are all scoring in the 9-10 range for $60 vs. 1 game which is scoring in the 9-10 range for $60...not really a surprise there.

#8 Posted by Dhalamar on 13 Nov 2007 - 06:54: And we still have Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3 just around the corner.

#9 Posted by Magallanes on 13 Nov 2007 - 14:41: How much simExchange is credible?.

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