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)

[mechwarrior1989]

Technically, Halo was not "overhyped" since there was very little hype when it was released. It became known through word of mouth. Very few games can claim this, even EGM has stated this, well the former of my statements. Because Halo 2 has not been released quite yet, 2 hours and 13 minutes more for me, you cannot yet state that it was overhyped unless you have already played it and know for a fact that it is a let down, and it won't be, but that's just my opinion.


And to stop any argument, when Xbox was first launched, microsoft lost money on every concil (yes i know that's not spelt right) that was sold, they were to make up losses in the hardware through money made in the software. This was microsofts marketing strategy in an attempt to undercut Gamecube and PS2, dont' ask me for sources because I long forgot them. Whether they lose money now is debatable since things like a 733mhz Celeron processor, 64mb ram and custom gforce graphics chipset would probably be very cheap plus other things such as the dvd-rom drive and harddrive are all very cheap and really not worth mentioning.

Also I might add, Microsoft has a lot of money sitting in banks, they can afford to lose some money in order to carve out a market segment for itself. Xbox is merely a test subject, hardly perfect. It was a pioneer which microsoft hoped that it would help to carve out enough of the market that it would warrent an Xbox 2 and then even more systems to come. It is all longer term thinking on microsoft's part which is very smart if I might say so myself.