Bad idea releasing Halo 4 around Call of Duty?

Microsoft should've released it back in September. Some of my friends didn't buy Halo 4 because BLOPS2 was around the corner. I imagine many other people did the same.

Thoughts?

I don't think it was. Both are brand names that people will buy for just that reason. If people want to buy both, then eventually they will.

If anything it was bad for CoD to release at the same time as Halo 4.

You mean, releasing Call of Duty around Halo 4.

If anything it was bad for CoD to release at the same time as Halo 4.

Blueresident87

[QUOTE="Blueresident87"]

If anything it was bad for CoD to release at the same time as Halo 4.

wwervin

....and you're forgetting that CoD is multiplatform.

MS made 3.1 million day 1 sales and people like me still need to get Halo 4

Its never a bad idea when halo 4 sold the most of any halo game in a 1 day period

....and you're forgetting that CoD is multiplatform.

GamerZem

^This

Halo 4 made almosty half of what BLOPS2 did and it was only released on ONE platform, where BLOPS2 was released on THREE platforms.

[QUOTE="Blueresident87"]

If anything it was bad for CoD to release at the same time as Halo 4.

wwervin

If anything it was bad for CoD to release at the same time as Halo 4.

Blueresident87

If anything it was bad for CoD to release at the same time as Halo 4.

Blueresident87

This seems more accurate.

Surely it depends on the extent to which the pool of buyers overlap? Most of my friends tend to gravitate to one or the other - very few invest a lot of time in both, so consequently the COD gamers didn't care that Halo had just come out, and the Halo players wouldn't have bought COD anyway. That's just the people I know - but they can't be that unusual.

Personally, I bought Halo 4, am playing it to death and loving every second. I'll pick up CODBLOPS2 when I've got one evening spare to blast through SP campaign - just like I have with every one since MW2.

To be honest I think it would have been better if they released it a week after BLOPS 2.