I can't write anymore.  I have the ideas, but when I start to write it out, I can only get about 2 or 3 sentences without getting stumped.  And I can't help but wonder if it has to do with me deleting my MySpace blogs(which was a ritual).  I wrote a decent sized blog about once a week, which kept my l33t writing skillz up to date at the time.  All of a sudden, for reasons I won't go into, it came to a stop.  That was 6 months ago, and I'm just now blogging again.  Let's hope it'll come back to me.  Here's an editorial I'm trying to finish, but just keeps getting worse as I go along....

On day one of Halo 3's release Microsoft raked in roughly $170 million, which is about $45 million more than Halo 2. It took 5 months for Halo: Combat Evolved just to get to the $20 million mark. Halo 3 was undoubtedly one of the most anticipated games of all time. Just now I went to Bungie.net and saw 313,316 people are playing Halo 3 right this moment. Halo 2? 11,034. I'm afraid to even check how many people are playing Halo: Combat Evolved on XBC/Xlink Kai. By no means am I surprised though. It is Halo afterall.

Halo is the series that has kept Microsoft running even with Sony and Nintendo (and more recently surpassing them in sales). It'll be a while before Microsoft even thinks about surpassing Nintendo, however. But now that the Halo trilogy is over, now what? We know Peter Jackson will be creating a Halo game, but it just won't be the same as the ones we've all played(perhaps for the better, who knows). Like Jackson's Halo game, Halo Wars will undoubtedly do great in sales. But to us gamers, sales mean shit. We want a good, quality game that's unlike any other. Even though Bungie is creating the Halo game with Jackson, it still doesn't automatically mean it'll be just a great as the previous game.

Ever since the release of the Xbox 360, the game on many gamers minds was Halo 3. It was pretty much the selling point of many. They sat through all the crappy games given to them like Sonic the Hedgehog, Pimp My Ride and Bomberman Act Zero. While at the same time enjoyed the good ones like Gears of War, BioShock and skate. When you think about it, the fourth quarter of 2007 has been fantastic for the Xbox 360. But it is also marking the peak of Microsoft's Xbox 360. It's all downhill from here. It'll be a gradual downhill, but nonetheless it will be downhill.

BioShock hasn't really made the same impact as Halo: Combat Evolved did. I'm not saying the BioShock series won't be a huge success, but it'll be nothing compared to Halo's. Microsoft's next biggest game would have to be Gears of War 2, with Mass Effect coming in at a second close(hype-wise). But with the PlayStation 3 finally, yet gradually starting to get good games, Microsoft will soon be losing the edge. Two years after its launch, and Microsoft is just starting to build Xbox 360's with with a decent nanometer chip(65nm)?

But this isn't to say it's the end for Microsoft. Halo 3.....blah

You see?  I'm brokenz....