: That bad, huh? Wasn't Halo 3 getting better numbers than that even after
: Reach came out? Has Major Nelson given XBL activity rankings since the XBO
: came out? I haven't seen any. Last I saw Halo 4 was sitting at like #13 or
: #14, and that was at about a year after it came out. It has not retained
: users well at all. I wonder what the most popular of the four games in the
: MCC will end up being.

Yeah, Halo 3 had higher numbers at this time.

My prediction for the MCC population is more than likely Halo 3. For these reasons:

- Halo 1 will be too limited for a lot of people. I'm not talking about gunplay, but the feature set isn't as diverse as the later games. Not much diversity and limited vehicle-enabled maps.

- Halo 2 was popular, but with none of the glitches fixed, people doing the arms race to glitching faster than the other side will drive people away.

- Halo 2 Anniversary multi will basically be non-glitched Halo 2, so I just about expect it to have higher population than old Halo 2, and it'll be the main focus of Forgers.

- Halo 3 is the right combination of 'hasn't been around for a while' and non-bugginess. If you've ever looked at my bug list for the games, Halo 3 was extremely short and most of them were actually already addressed via Forge updates.

- Halo 4 players are playing Halo 4 right now. They're not going to exactly see 60fps as justification for 400$ of console just to play it with less people.