Two years after its release, and Halo is still the ninth best-selling game in 2004, Q1 (see Gamespot article "Video Game Industry in Decline"). It's official: Halo is the Goldeneye of this generation

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Two years after its release, and Halo is still the ninth best-selling game in 2004, Q1 (see Gamespot article "Video Game Industry in Decline"). It's official: Halo is the Goldeneye of this generation</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I'll notify the AP.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Halo sells well because it is the flagship title of the Xbox; like Mario 64 was on the N64 (another game which sold well for years). Grand Theft Auto 3/Vice City is more like the Goldeneye of this generation. Neither Halo nor Mario 64 ever approached the popularity of Vice City or Goldeneye 007 (even though Mario 64 actually outsold Goldeneye and is the #1 best selling Console game of all time). Yet Goldeneye itself was unique, it was a game that's popularity spread on word of mouth, and not the massive and on-going marketing campaigns that Halo and GTA have received; Goldeneye did not even hit #1 until several months after its release, and it stayed there for a long time. After 2 years the game had sold over 9 million copies world wide, Halo has sold under 4 million world wide after 2 years.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Mario 3 was the best sellilng game of all time, something like $770mil in revenue worldwide (see Game Over). And what i meant by that was that Halo is consistently selling well 2 years after release, which is what Goldeneye did. Even Vice City dropped off after a year</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Any word on when the story will be printed? I just want to know when I can expect to see it in the papers</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I was actually a bit drunk when I said I'd do that, but I called the AP this morning. They said that they have to do some background checks on "this Zeus guy" before taking his word for it.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>But as I said, in order for Halo to be like Goldeneye, it would have to top the charts at #1 more than a year later as Goldeneye did.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Tell them to check Gamespot's news section for April 20, 2004. They should find all the proof they need there</div>