$170 Mil...Microsoft Just Killed Everyone With Halo 3

[droplister]

call of duty 4 can, my friend has played the beta version.

 

[Aequitas]

Well I thought $170 million in the first 24 hours was amazing but they made over $300 Million in the first week of sales, what bastards haha.

 

[roclafamilia]

This is the most astonishing part of all...



Ahh but then again, movie sale tickets are NOT $60 each, and neither are the books they are comparing it too. Plus Microsoft's profit margin is HUGE, because they developed and designed it all in-house. So it goes from Microsoft to the stores to the customer. Very simple and quick payouts for them. Although movies only share in small profit margins, they also go through a few phases, each racking up millions and millions more. But then again, doesn't Xbox Live have a monthly fee tied to it?

I understand that Microsoft banked REALLY hard on this and all, but at least compare it to something in the same per unit sale price region instead of the movie ticket price ($6-$10 per ticket depending on the city). Books are usually half the price of a video game (avg $20-$30 per unit). So when they sell almost 3 million video game units at $60 per unit, well no shit it's going to kick the asses of the other entertainment areas. Plus they are able to create teasers and unreal hype for it AND the Halo series is made exclusively for Microsoft Xbox.

All I'm saying is if you're going to make claims, at least make it fair.

Even so, good job to Microsoft for finally doing something cool and delivering on their promise. What did that take? Like 20 years?

you also might go to the movies with 6 of your friends 6*10 = 60, 6 of your friends playing halo still = $60 its really a comparable thing since more probably more people would spend 10$ to see a movie then 60 to get a game. not everyone has 360 either.

 

[Edman]

Comparing Halo to Spiderman or Harry Potter is bloody stupid. Just get out of your house and ask people on the street if they know what Harry Potter and Halo is, I think you'd notice a pretty damn considerable difference. It isn't even a matter of which one is better or worse, it's rather a matter of accessibility. To play Halo 3 you have to be an Xbox 360 owner, to watch spiderman or read harry potter, you don't need anything. So naturally, effect of release of Halo 3 is going to be limited to Xbox 360 owners only, and Xbox 360 isn't even the most sold 7th gen console anymore.

Microsoft's game division has yet to post profit for any fiscal year of their existence... maybe this will change things? Not sure what the figures were for the other quarters, but they lost of $300 million in the first quarter of 2007, so this would be interesting.