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[Bry0]

Halo 2 was insane, dang. I never realized the steelbook ltd sold so many copies.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Makes sense. They loved NeoGAF back in the day. We even got our own shoutout in Sunset Overdrive.

 

[Games of Today]

It just makes me sick looking at this. Back when even sports games were made properly.

Madden 2005 and NFL 2K (The greatest Football game of all time) were both amazing and then you just go uphill from there.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

glory days of late-GBA and the DS launch, fun month... look at those numbers of Nintendo handheld systems compared to the entire home console market.

 

[[Sigma]]

Ah good times. I bought ESPN NFL 2k5 on Xbox. Still remains my favorite NFL sim game ever. Damn look at all those what used to be actual fun EA Sports games. Damn EA, you royally fucked up.

 

[mckmas8808]

And they say consoles haven't grown. Look at those November numbers. Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo are selling more consoles now then when compared to 2003 and 2004.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

FF7 selling 113k copies in the US in 2004.

 

[Diseased Yak]

Poor Sega... Wonder what sold for N64 sold in 2003 that didn't sell at all during 2004? It only has 0.1% of sales but still, something sold.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Look at all those Brick and Mortar stores!

 

[Warablo]

Halo was legit

 

[SmokedMeat]

You can tell PlayStation was the discounted family console, with PS2 taking the reins.

Pretty cool snapshot of history.

 

[Pelao]

Oh no no no, Pac-Man World bros, how could we lose to Spyro?

 

[RoadHazard]

And they say consoles haven't grown. Look at those November numbers. Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo are selling more consoles now then when compared to 2003 and 2004.

Who says that? It has very obviously grown every generation.

 

[Zathalus]

And they say consoles haven't grown. Look at those November numbers. Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo are selling more consoles now then when compared to 2003 and 2004.

November 2003 - 2.3 million consoles, 1.23 million handhelds.
November 2004 - 1.82 million consoles, 1.81 million handhelds.
November 2023 - 2.2 million consoles.

Not really seeing any growth for hardware there. Unless we are looking at different numbers?

 

[BrunoCoel]

Damn Xbox OG sold more in Nov 04 than Series did in Nov 23

 

[mckmas8808]

November 2003 - 2.3 million consoles, 1.23 million handhelds.
November 2004 - 1.82 million consoles, 1.81 million handhelds.
November 2023 - 2.2 million consoles.

Not really seeing any growth for hardware there. Unless we are looking at different numbers?

I wasn't counting handhelds to be fair. And you didn't add up the November 2022 numbers that are supposed to be compared to the November 2003 numbers. I think last year the consoles did 2.6 million in November.

 

[Bernoulli]

3 halo in the top 10

 

[Shakka43]

And they say consoles haven't grown. Look at those November numbers. Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo are selling more consoles now then when compared to 2003 and 2004.

I wouldn't say console sales have grown that much, Software sales on the other hand has grown immensely.

 

[Dolomite]

Damn lol Halo 2 was putting numbers on the scoreboard. Wreaking havoc

 

[stn]

Still got my Halo 2 steelbook copy. I remember being so hyped about multiplayer. Amazing times.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Still got my Halo 2 steelbook copy. I remember being so hyped about multiplayer. Amazing times.

I worked at Gamestop the night it released. It was a mad house.

Seeing those Xbox numbers are surprising to me. I see now why Msft put their weight into getting that platform going. It's software breakouts could really push some units. Halo was such a landmark title.

Shoutout to Mario Bros. 3 too. I remember buying that on the GBA at the time too. Great port.

 

[billthomas696969]

Poor Sega... Wonder what sold for N64 sold in 2003 that didn't sell at all during 2004? It only has 0.1% of sales but still, something sold.

The Walmart in my college town had copies of N64 THPS3 by the registers in the electronics section for pretty much that entire year, maybe that was it.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Now this is interesting. I don't give a flying fuck what game gets released in 2028 but I love history.