halo 2, stuff Options

[indykid845]

iz there ne one else who CANNOT wait 4 halo 2 to come out?!
(lemme kno if this topic has already been discussed)

[ThunderEvermore]

I see that you people who aren't so fond of Halo are questioning it. Fine, don't heed my word, but atleast take notice to the professional gaming companies that rave on it. I don't understand how it is too hyped. It's hyped because it's a good game. I would think a game that gets elite scores from every gaming review company would be hyped.

Maybe it's because I'm just a casual gamer, I don't look to critisize every game I encounter. You won't see me refuting that Goldeneye or Half-life wasn't one of the best or maybe the best. I just express how I feel. I've never researched these gaming statistics, like MS is losing billions from xbox and such, but I would think w/o Halo, MS would have scrapped the entire Xbox project.

To me, Halo was balanced in gameplay, and add on what every gaming company says, it's a good, fine, kick ass game. And I'm more inclined to believe professional critics than the likes of people like you guys or me - just amateurs.

You compared 4player Goldeneye to 16 player Halo....um....

If MS is losing billions, why are they bothering making Xbox2? Actually, why don't you cite your source so I can believe it, please.

Excuse me for my delayed response.

1) Gaming reviews are based upon the opinion of the person, which can be biased and mislead. Granted, as can mine, but I guarantee I can come up with compelling evidence towards the crappiness of Halo that cant be disproven by any more than "hal0 r0x0rs".

2) We all critique every game we come across, we have to, we like a game when we like it, we dont when we dont, its a critique every time. I didnt like Halo, it bored me, both single and multiplayer. I found it to have many flaws, and excuse me if I grew up on Goldeneye, but its quite a thing to measure up to.

3) Yes I compared 4 player GE to 16 player Halo, I find GE to still be > Halo.

4) Why would they bother? Its Microsoft! One, they never admit defeat, two, they can afford it. With Windows being practically the only OS out there for PC users its fairly easy for them to make up that kind of money.

5)

Profits from the Xbox? Not in this lifetime. The Xbox Division, which is part of the Home and Entertainment Division of the company, consistently posts losses each quarter. Consistently over $100 million each quarter lost in the Home and Entertainment Division fiscals have been seen for the past year, with the Xbox making up a huge part of those losses.

Microsoft's first fiscal quarter (July 1 to September 30)SEC filing shows that the Home and Entertainment Division lost $273 million dollars between July 2003 and September 2003, despite an increase of revenue by $96 million over the same quarter the previous year (IE the Home and Entertainment Division brought in $96 million more than the previous year's same fiscal quarter, but ended up losing $28 million more than the previous year's same fiscal quarter's loss of $245 million). And Microsoft's most current SEC filing shows a loss of $241 million in the Home and Entertainment Division for the final calendar quarter of 2003. For this quarter, though, Microsoft actually managed to lose less money than the same fiscal quarter a year before.

Since the Xbox launched, the Home and Entertainment Division has seen financial losses approaching $1 billion per year. The losses are $880 million and $990 million per fiscal year, respectively. Add in the $273 million lost in Microsoft's fiscal Q1 (calendar Q3), and $241 million lost in fiscal Q2 (calendar Q4) and we get $2.384 billion lost since the launch of the Xbox.

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