NoFrag: People don't care about Half-Life anymore | ResetEra(I know you know most of this already.
)1.) There is an issue with using google trends. Half-life might end up getting split up more among Half life (which will ironically get a boost from being a technical term), half-life, etc. Single word names that are unique will tend to be more reliable.
2.) It's hard to make a comparison between Halo and Half Life, for several reasons, (different number of titles, different time period of release, different platforms, different stores).
An interesting point of comparison here is that Half Life always being beneath Halo in the search engine trends. Even in 2004, when Halo 2 and Half Life 2 both released a week from each other. Half Life 2 has sold about 12 million, whereas Halo sold around 8 million on Xbox.
There's a lot of reasons why that was the case, but search engine data doesn't perfectly translate to sales.
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Wonder how well Half Life Alyx will sell.I think it'll sell 1-2 million this year.
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Will it sell mostly off the ip or mostly off being a good vr game?I wonder if we'll really ever get data on that.
I'm leaning towards the IP being the seller.