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Halo 3 voted retail's biggest moment of 2007

The UK's Marketing for Home Computing and Video Games (MCV) revealed the results of their 2007 retail surveys and things are looking good for the Xbox 360 in the UK. The survey showed that the majority of retailers agree that Halo 3's launch was the single biggest retail event in 2007 just narrowly beating out the success of the Wii. And their 360 praise continues, with the majority of UK retailers saying that the Xbox 360 will win the console war (49%), that Microsoft has the best quality and attitude towards retail of any publisher (38%) and that Microsoft is the best overall company of the year (29%). Tis' all good stuff! What more can be said? Retail UK loves the Xbox 360, Halo 3 and Microsoft ... they go all googly eyed for 'em.

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ryan1

12-13-2007 @ 1:16PM

ryan said...

well of course it is the biggest. good marketing helped it!

and it's a pretty cool game too. =p

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TORO2

12-13-2007 @ 1:35PM

TORO said...

And it all comes down to what people expect, quality games.

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Eddie3

12-13-2007 @ 1:52PM

Eddie said...

I don't care if it's gay.
Care Bears FTW.

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itsburnsie4

12-13-2007 @ 2:17PM

itsburnsie said...

Alright, you made me chuckle with the picture.

/kudos

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Mike Fed5

12-14-2007 @ 2:01PM

Mike Fed said...

yeah i guess..

because marketing saved a medicore game.
halo 3 was not THAT good

COD4 still crushed it.

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mattclarkie6

12-14-2007 @ 4:24PM

mattclarkie said...

So why is it that so many shops that don't sell games for the PS2/3 or 360 sell Wii games. And even I don't think the 360 will win the console war.

I would like to know which retailers were asked, and what the questions were exactly, as this sounds very strange.

But hey, atleast the 360 is doing better than the Xbox did, and it has provided me with a collection of good games, and a smaller bank balance. And without MS I wouldn't have known the joy of Halo 1 to 3, and hopefully Halo 4+.

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