Halo: Reach Bigger Than God of War III? Impossible!

Big promises are pouring out of the Microsoft offices touting that Halo: Reach will be "the biggest game of 2010."
In a year filled with massive Triple-A titles, Xbox exec Aaron Greenberg seems confident to tell website Gamasutra that "there's nothing that will compare in size," eclipsing all other heavy hitters including StarCraft II, God of War III, and Final Fantasy XIII.
Greenberg may be jumping the gun a little by already proclaiming Halo: Reach as the biggest game of 2010. Is his prediction valid? Seems like a lot of these heavy hitters are going to give Halo: Reach a run for its money. And it's never safe to bet against a god.

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Comments
JvdAmdShdt
- December 11, 2009 8:49 PM
What a bunch of bull, do they know what the other companies are working on? Do know what each other are doing? What claim for Microsoft to make, it anger me. I am still going to play all the games anyway.
Tony
- December 11, 2009 9:04 PM
Well gee how can anyone refute that logic? Maybe with the use of actual facts.
Halo 3 sold over 10 million units, ODST which is regarded a relatively poor spin-off sold now over 3.6 million and is still selling well. Halo: Reach is being pumped up as the Biggest thing in the Halo universe which gives it the potential to outsell Halo 3.
God of War 2 only sold a little over 2.5 million, not bad at all, but that don't even come close halo numbers, and don't forget the ps3 base is smaller then the ps2 base and Gow 2 sold worse then gow 1,(and the psp game sold even worse) leading us to believe GOW 3 won't sell half as well as Halo:Reach. Mark my words because I said it first.
LevelHead
- December 11, 2009 9:34 PM
How much did the God of War games sell? How many copies did Halo 3 sell? My moneys on Bungie.
S. Bains
- December 11, 2009 9:42 PM
Greenberg has his head up his *ss God of War III and Gran Turismo5 along with Heavy Rain are going to rock Halo - Halo will not be in reach of Game of the Year mark my words Zeus!
millie
- December 11, 2009 11:08 PM
halo reach won't touch starcraft 2 im gonna call that right now god3 is probably gonna be bigger than it same with ff13 the last 2 halo games released both sucked ost could of just been a dlc i think halo reach will fail
saminseattle
- December 12, 2009 12:42 AM
I'm confident that Halo:Reach may sell more than any other game next year, and I'm sure it'll also be very very good. But that doesn't necessarily make it the biggest game next year.
REDAVUTS
- December 12, 2009 1:09 AM
Don't blame the "biggest game in 2010" quote on M$ GREENBERG
if this site was keeping up on current events, they would know that Geoff Keighley a very
prominent game journalist and lover of PS3 made the comment first and also said none of it is CG
in the upcoming trailer it is in realtime, hip hop gamer said it was great looking and that the
new x-engine development tools on xbox 360 is 1gig of mem now matching the 1gig mem in P(ee)S3's
Edge tools (yeah 360 was blasting ps3 without using all of it's memory) 3rp party has the kits
also watch Natals graphics at launch. After all of this then Greenberg said what he said. ON Top
off that Halo Reach is using a new graphically superior ENGINE this time around. KEEP in mind
that Halo 3 and ODST was 640p, Modern Warfare 1 and 2 were both 600p verified by Their
developers. More than 50 percent of 360 owners bought HALO 3 at launch, less than 20% of P(ee)S3
owners bought Metal Gear Solid 4 and Uncharted 2, less than 10 percent, Resistance 2 less than
10%, Resistance 1 1ess than 20%, Killnone 2 less than 10 percent .Just look at Killnone and
Halo's tail growth,Halo 3 is currently at the 30% range and still outsells Killnone even though
it's 2+ years old and is above the 10 million mark in sales(50%-30%). Killnone 2 is currently at
2.12 million in sales, less than 10 percent,Even ODST is already past 10% of Sony system sales
and its just an add on. So why can't REACH own 2010. MAYBE If P(ee)S3 owners put their money
where their mouth is. Spent money on P(ee)S3 GAMES instead of worrying so hard about HALO REACH
TAK'N OVER 2010 you might not contribute to the 3rd place position PS3 holds. Even though all
these ridiculous article keep getting typed, XBOX 360 keeps shoving it to them, and I have a
right to speak because I own 86or87 XBLA GAMES and nearly 100 Disc (checK gamertag:
REDAVUTS),yeah almost 200 games on one console(3 boxes). I actually buy & play games not just
read and comment on them, Besides IBM(builders of WII ,360 AND PS3's CPUS) EXPLAINED along time
ago that the XBOX 360 IS MADE BETTER FOR GAMING. But everyone always wants to forget that.CASE
CLOSED
Darkie
- December 12, 2009 2:17 AM
This site is called ps3informer, you have no credibility on this matter, ofcoarse your going to say god of war is better than halo, duuh, come on guys, try harder.
Edito
- December 12, 2009 2:37 AM
Can be the biggest game in terms of marketing and hype but we know that in the end it will be another halo game and nothing more that just that "another halo game" surrounded by microsoft hype...
DMC5
- December 12, 2009 2:49 AM
.replayability/longevity: halo Reach bigger than GOD 3
.sales: halo reach WILL be bigger than GOW3
.fanbase: halo bigger than GOW
graphics: ummm who knows maybe halo reach could outdo GOW3 !
anyway FFXIII WILL be bigger and better than both thats my game !!!!
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- December 12, 2009 3:09 AM
Hasnt Halo 3 outsold like every game on the ps3 already?
TruMan
- December 12, 2009 3:35 AM
in sales wise.. then Halo reach will kill everyone. 12-15 Million + for sure. you have to remember Halo makes Xbox.. not Xbox made Halo !!
Thanks!
nutbear96
- December 12, 2009 5:54 AM
Well first we need to ask if its better than Halo 3? If no, then it isn't better than the games listed. If yes, then it isn't better than the games listed.
The first Halo game was pretty awesome, its what made me buy my Xbox (although I hardly played on it).
The second Halo game was cruddy but the multiplayer made up for it.
The third Halo game was a piece of crap but the multiplayer made up for it. Then the 10 year olds came along and ruined it! And a few months later COD4 MW came out so the multiplayer on Halo 3 was the best in the industry for 3 months.
Halo Wars was a muthafuckin piece of shit! That is all I have to say.
Halo 3 ODST was a constipated Satan!!!! The story was the worst of all of 2009. Firefight was an unfinished turd. The multiplayer was alright BUT everyone already had the map packs! I went to my local game to trade it in and there were about 50 copies in the preowned section and 4 other people in the line were also trading it in.
And when you think about it, Halo is just a gay guy with a retarded helmet that can jump 500m in the air and only has 2 decent guns.
And Halo Reach is an overhyped duck vagina!
David Macphail
- December 12, 2009 5:59 AM
LOL, Halo is one of the worst selling games in the history of this planet. There have been 6 Gran Turismo games released on consoles selling 53 million games. There have been 5 Halo games selling 24 million, pathetic!
If Galo: Bleach can sell 10% of what Gran Turismo 5 will then they could probably be happy with it, to say it'll be the biggest game of 2010 is plain retarded.
name
- December 12, 2009 7:00 AM
eh its greenburg what do you expect.
never have i heard him come out and not talk shit about the ps3.
NEVER!
in fact he talks more shit than that dan greenwalt.
eh hes scared, he looks at what sony has for next year and cowers.
so hes trying to cover up their lackluster lineup.
ill take GOW3 over splinter cell conviction, mass effect, crackdown 2 put together.
infact how many xbox 360 exclusives are there for next year?
3?
all i can think of are fable 3, crackdown 2 and halo reach all the others are available for PC and are better on PC.
to seriously believe halo reach will be bigger than GOW3 is to be mentally retarded.
no thats unfair to retarded people, not even they could be that dumb.
alex c
- December 12, 2009 7:13 AM
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and to think that halo and modernwarefare, are even on the same level as uncharted 2 and killzone 2, needs a pair of super strenght glasses. the ONLY thing they best the ps3 games with is sales. which says something about the demographic user base of 360;s, ; all idiots if they believe there actually playing the best games ut there..THER NOT
Ben James
- December 12, 2009 8:09 AM
Good luck putting the biggest game ever on one disk.
Amirofski
- December 12, 2009 8:26 AM
bigger how? sales? come on guys, is that what really matters?somebody should ask mr greenburge what he means by "biggest". all these people talking about sales numbers of halo, i want to ask, do u guys rather play something great(not that halo isnt good), or play something that sells well? I personally rather play something that I will enjoy, than something that was made to appeals to the masses (ages 6-99).to me halo has the same problem that the new Star Wars movies had, they were made to appeal to all ages and so fell short in reaching movie greatness(not that i didnt like them) but definitely not movie history.
carlos
- December 12, 2009 11:58 AM
halo was only good the first time you finish the game the rest is like trying to wake up in the morning nothing new or unexpected happens the second time around ,it's more of a rental game than anything else
i bought halo 3 finished it in a week and then it just kinda sat there
cell989
- December 12, 2009 12:20 PM
Im sorry but if Halo 3 and Halo 3.5 have anything to show is that Microsoft's milking machine is running out of steam, and its running out of steam good.
The Halo franchise has not been impressive since Halo 2, and when you compare Halo 3 and its DL content disk with the likes of Killzone 2, than you can see just how much does Microsoft invest on their precious gold mine. Minimum investment:maximum profit ratio is really working for them, thanks to the blind following they have.
If we want a badass FPS experience, than thats why we'll have BFBC, and with CODMW2, Halo has become irrelevant.
GOW 3 will fuck the living spartan helmet off of that motorcycle Driver (Master Chief)
samuel
- December 12, 2009 12:52 PM
are you joking? There is no way halo reach will sell less than GRan Tourismo. There are only 4 halo games. Halo 1 and 2 were each owned by 1/3 of xbox owners and 1/3 of xbox owners have halo 3. Odst has only been out for 3 months and has surpsasased 3 million. Meanwhile there have been 10 Gran Tourismo on ps1 and ps2 which have much higher number of consoles sold compared to xbox and 360. Discounting odst because it has been out for only 3 months how is 26 million form halo 1+2+3 pathetic. That give it an average of over 8 million per games. Very imprssive considering console base numbers. More impressive that GT 5.3 million average per game
Kamanashi
- December 12, 2009 12:56 PM
@David: I my self may be excited for GT5, but it won't sell anywhere near as good as Halo will. GT just isn't the most popular sim racer anymore. And if we are gonna go by sales, Halo gains more with every main release, while GT actually is starting to lose with each main release.
Dion
- December 14, 2009 11:18 PM
So wait, biggest game of 2010 as in critics or sales? And if there's anything Sony has to match Halo: Reach in terms of sales, it's Gran Turismo 5. But I think the next Call of Duty is going to dominate in sales once again.
Anonymous
- December 23, 2009 6:45 AM
halo games are rubbish and if any of u 360 nerds think it will game of the year 2010 when so many ofther amazing games are coming out for ps3 (gt5 gow 3 ff13 heavy rain) then there may be a chance that you have mental issues
riseer
- January 2, 2010 11:43 PM
Dmc5 you are a fail,Killzone 3 will kill halo reach is the looks department.As for sells ya halo sells better.Mostly lil kids asking their mommy to buy it for em.The last 3 halo games have been alright nothing great.This is bungie's last halo game from what i hear.Even rumbles of a bungie ps3 title.
syal
- January 5, 2010 7:29 PM
lol guys calm down. if a company wants to move games off retailer shelves, it will hype them. how does this sound coming from ms "halo reach will be great but with mass effect 2 and so many other games coming out it only might be the goty." same with sony hyping the ps3 "true next gen gaming doesn't start till the ps3" and such. personally i'm looking forward to my preorder of mass effect 2 (pc) the most
unimpressed
- January 23, 2010 10:24 PM
I am a very picky gammer, and the god of war series is one of the few titles that thoroughly impresses me. Halo has fun multiplayer but lacks in every other way. To say that the next halo will be bigger than GOW3 is nuts.
geezus21
- March 5, 2010 3:18 PM
That one guy's right..Halo does make Xbox..strip it away, and what does it have? On PS3's internet browser alone i can download free music, movies, and t.v. shows directly from the browser to the PS3. Almost any game that comes out, i can play, becuz they multi-platform them. Not as many people play online, but guess what? Its free. The menu is so much easier to navigate, and the ps home app is the best avatar sim to date. Not to mention exclusives like 1. God of War, 2. InFamous, 3. Little Big Planet, 4. Grad Turismo, 5. (they should be announcing it at E3) Twisted Metal, 6. Team Ico's The Last Guardian. Yea, you can have halo. Btw, how does it feel to either pay an extra $30 to make your controllers rechargable, and $60 to have wireless internet..I've never even seen an ethernet cable, or brought a battery even close to my controller. How ab this, fanboy? You keep your slightly better graphics on some games, Halo, and your online play, and Ill keep my free downloads thanks to the internet browser, my awesome ps exclusives, my out-of-the-box rechargable controllers, and my out-of-the-box wireless internet..b.t.w if you do own an X-box, go get on a computer so you can read this post, Ill be checking for responses via my PS3 internet browser
Anonymous
- March 20, 2010 11:14 PM
Personally, I am a huge fan of CoD, but to say that Halo Reach wont be good or do good in sales means that you're a fanboy moron. There is no way GoW is going to make more sales than halo and GT and FF13 shouldnt even be in this conversation because it wont even come close to selling as much (regardless of it being good or not).
Ruiner
- March 21, 2010 7:54 PM
It won't take all that much to out do God of War 3 critically, and commercially. I haven't even had GoW 3 for a full weak now, and I am finding myself forgetting that I can actually play it. It almost feels sacrilegious to say this but a game published by EA actually managed to kick a Sony mascots' @$$. Mass Effect 2 is still the best so far of 2010, and Grand Turismo 5 will never out do it. MS is in a rather fortunate situation this year since they only really have their own exclusives as competition.
Anonymous
- March 22, 2010 11:24 AM
u know wat...GOW3 has already became GOY...suck on that they have even made a game show about it on spike and it has some of the best graphic's...and has everyone forgot about the best graphics in a video game,,,uncharted 2...GOY and one of the best game play
Halo Reach= World DOMINATION!!
- April 16, 2010 6:40 PM
HAHAHAHAHHAHA LOL you PS3 fans make me Lauch look what you brought upon you self's. Mass Effect 2 has sold as much as Gow of war 1 2 3 LOL Just Mass Effect 2 oh and got a far better rating to. Halo Reach Beta will have more players on their then GOW3 will have sales Trust me.Halo Reach will outsell MW2.Halo Reach is a Eruptin Volcano Gow3 is a Pebble that lies Beneath it.
Anonymous
- April 20, 2010 6:19 PM
Screw you PS3 Fanboys, we all know that Halo Reach will dominate every single game this year and besides you lot dont know what this games contains, it isn't like halo 3 at all, so why don't you all go back to your gaystations and suck on it, oh and another thing, you GS3 fanboys best watch out because Gears of war 3 will destroy PS3 games for good.
ahmed
- April 28, 2010 1:19 PM
i wouldnt say much about gears of war 3 being able to destroy ps3 bcuz gears 2 was sort of a let down for me. as for halo reach, it will dominate in sales and critics. from all the previews and gameplay videos and interviews, critics are already hinting at very great game due to how much attention its getting and the amount of innovations to gameplay and graphics. i've played all ps3 exclusives and they do bring me in the frst week of launch but they never hold me in. i have only played god of war 3 merely 4 hours and im already bored of it, got repetetive. only 2 games tht held me onto ps3 was killzone 2 and uncharted 2, their multiplayer was stellar and top notch and graphics were outstanding, but halo reach looks extremely promising. as for best game of the year, i'd say it will be leading the charge for gameof the year, only ps3 title i believe that has a shoe in will be god of war 3, for its graphics and the hype,and heavy rain i've heard is a good game.
Master Chief
- June 28, 2010 8:21 AM
Look, Halo is what XBox is made of. Halo has sold 29 mn copies for 5 games. That's about 4.8 mn copies per game. Also, Halo: CE and Halo 2 are on PC. Halo 3 will also be released on PC by 2011. Meanwhile, GT franchise has sold 53 mn copies for 6 games and that's about 9 mn copies per game. Add the PS3's other features, this fight is a no brainer. Cry all you will about Gears of War 3 or Fable 3 but they can't beat the upcoming PS3 titles. XBox was the consle of 2005-2009. Now is the time of the PS3. I am myself a Halo fan but I can't fight facts and logic.