Console LAN After Halo: Has the Day of the PS3 Arrived...?

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The Halo franchise, whatever opinion you have about the games, accomplished a pretty impressive thing. All of the sudden, 4 out of 5 of your friends had the same console and multiplayer game as you, and were willing to throw it and a tv into their car at a moment's notice for a massive 16 player all-night LAN extravaganza.

Personally, I'm fairly critical of the Halo series, prefereing games like UT, Resistance, of COD4, however, I'm in the minority. Although Halo wasn't ever my favorite game, I absolutely loved the fact that 20 of my friends and I could get together every couple weeks and have a massive LAN party, which in itself made up for anything the game lacked.

Now that the Halo franchise seems to be over (Bungie is not currently planning any more installments in the series to my knowledge) can all of the average joes lured by this game be converted to play other, (in my opinion) superior games? I have a vision of doing the same thing we did with Halo 2 with Resistance 2 on the PS3. A lot of my friends are considering buying a PS3 now... do you guys see this becoming a reality, or will these Halo players just go back to Gears of War?

Begin speculation...........now!