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There’s no real story linkage between FF games, Their all completely different games. and dos is right there’s several years between recent FF games. So you STFU jackass! If Bungie keeps cranking out Halo games once a year. Halo 9 will be pinball game.

Halo: Reach is probably going to sell a fair few copies, which is all well and good, but the problem is Microsoft needs Reach to ship consoles as well, which I’m afraid it might not do.

Anyone who bought a 360 for the Halo franchise has done so already, so while sales of the game will be strong I doubt it will boost console sales dramatically. This does not bode well for Microsoft simply because Sony is facing the opposite. Fans of Gram Turismo, God of War and Final Fantasy are just waiting for these games to release to jump on-board. And while FF is being released on 360 in the US, it’s in Japan that FF receives the majority of it’s sales, so FF only being on PS3 over there pretty much ensures a good 2-3 million head start in sales.

Also, Stephander, you sound like a pretty big idiot yourself, so reframe from labelling other people idiots as well

Final Fantasy is a different story every time, so how is that milking??? Are you retarded?

I know 360 fanboys aren’t known for an over – abundance of brains but this is REALLY sad………..

sales only matter to shareholders, for people who play games how “big” games are depends only on its quality, and with that in mind Killzone 2 was much bigger than Halo 3 ODST

Halo 3 ODST was 60 dollars for a 4 hour campaign and a new MP mode

@Joe

your post only proves my point, Microsoft has ONLY one franchise to milk, by the time Halo Reach comes out, they will have released 3 full price Halo games in less than two years

Sony has 7 or 8 different franchises to milk, and they create new ones every year (2007: Uncharted, 2008: little big planet, 2009: Infamous, 2010 Heavy Rain), Microsoft keeps milking Halo because they have nothing else

that’s the point you’re missing

OK, seriously, every time I see something about a new game for either side, the fan-boys gear up and head into battle. I’m a PS3 fan-boy at heart, have been since the original, I love my PS3 and my PSP to death. I still want a 360 like bad though, Gears is good, Halo is great, and Bioware is dear to my heart, so I LOVE Mass Effect. Final Fantasy needs to find a way to make better names than just adding numbers, I love all of them, but Final Fantasy 15 times, or whatever they’re up to now in spin-offs and main titles, is getting a bit dragged on. Microsoft needs to milk the Halo Cow, its a great Universe, and I’m curious to see where it leads, even though I have never owned one, I enjoy the series. I know we all have loyalties to own consoles, but quit bitching at each other, acknowledge these great games, and get over yourself. If Naughty Dog, Infinity Ward, and Bungie can collaborate together and play ball, then so can the fan-boys.

you don’t need a crystal ball to know which games failed and won’t get a sequels and which ones will become a franchise

little big planet is already a franchise because for he PSP version which is a completely different game, Infamous had great reviews, good sales and has a movie adaptation confirmed, you don’t think there’ll be a sequel? on the PS3 Heavenly Sword failed to become a succesful IP

too human was a failure and there won’t any more sequels, many games left open endings in hope of more iterations but those are not made because the game plot, trhey’re only made if they’ll make money (I’m still waiting for another Dino Crisis to continue the trilogy and the twist ending of the second part)

we can’t pass judgement on Alan Wake but if it took five year of development I doubt there will be another one for the 360

and are you honestly saying Lips and Viva Piñata are games that 360 owners are looking foward for its sequels like PS3 owners look forward for more killzone, zone of the enders, uncharted, resistance, the last guardian or infamous for example?

besides Gears (no more for 360) and Halo (spinoffs) the 360 only has minor games

if you really think that you must dumber that you sound

To the writer: You say MS had an average year with basically “nothing” and at the same time ask people not to term you as a fanboy.
Then how should we term you based on your claims? As an Idiot?

After all, your claim is that Sony had a great year based on 4 Games: R&C, Uncharted 2, Killzone 2 and Infamous. A smart person would add Demons Souls to that list (and I see someone here already did). That’s two 9′ers and three 8′ers

On the other hand, Microsoft had this year Forza 3, ODST, Halo Wars, Liberty City Stories and the upcoming L4D2. That’s also 5 games with two 9′ers and two 8′ers so far (we will have to see how L4D2 plays out, but expect nothing less than excellent from Valve).

So you see, you base your assumption that Sony had “a great year” based on 5 good games (actually 4, because you forgot one) and MS had “nothing” based again on 5 good games which you seem to neglect.
And then you are asking not to be called “a fanboy”. But one must be either a delusional fanboy, an ignorant moron, or a troll looking for N4G hits in order to make such a claim. So which one are you?

One more note on “milking” franchises: how come stupid Sony fanturds always bring up this issue when talking about Halo, but forget it when they praise R&C (which had twice as many games (9) in a shorter lifespan (7 years) – now that’s what I call milking)