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Forums - Sales Discussion - UK: Halo 5 is the Lowest Selling Mainline Game in Franchise History

shloob said:

Its called digital sales. Which for some of the biggest publishers makes up as much as 60% of their total sales. Also doesnt factor in bundles. Nice try tho. Common sense people. Use it.


60%?




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BHR-3 said:
cant say shit about the games quality cause i havent played it

but i believe part of the problem is that those who were into halo are much older now and either not into gaming or fatigued from the franchise also xb1 user base could have something to do with it


Older people buy digitally so they arent seem on stores and feel embarased. see kitler post.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

I honestly saw this coming after Halo 4 sales. It always seemed to me that the series was going to decline.



Bet with Teeqoz for 2 weeks of avatar and sig control that Super Mario Odyssey would ship more than 7m on its first 2 months. The game shipped 9.07m, so I won

And people didnt believe me when i said this one will struggle to even hit 8M



Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

shloob said:

Its called digital sales. Which for some of the biggest publishers makes up as much as 60% of their total sales. Also doesnt factor in bundles. Nice try tho. Common sense people. Use it.


uk trackers factor in bundles

60% digital? thats delusional, it'll be lucky if it hits 30 digital



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ohmylanta1003 said:
Nate4Drake said:

Halo5 has also the worst metacritic of all main Halo : The franchise is going down and down.


Halo: Combat Evolved = 97, Halo2 = 95, Halo3 = 94, Halo Reach = 91, Halo4 = 87, Halo5 = 85.


Most metacritic scores this gen have been lower. It's not because the games are getting worse. Reviewers are just more critical and there are more in number.

 

Its false, only worse games have lower metacritics, Uncharted will show you how you are wrong being around 92 like other Uncharted, Bloodborne is an other good example 

 

And the fact the décline in reviews started before this génération shows this has nothing to do with more sévère reviews, its just that 343i made 2 Halo that disappointed a lot of people, even worse for the 5 when they killed a big feature of Halo : Split coop, they dont understand everything thar made Halo popular 

 



Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

Édit : No now i think it will even struggle to reach 6M lft



Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

Ah the digital game argument. I'm still of the opinion that there are less people downloading 40gig games to their tiny hard drives than people want to believe.
And yes, reviewer scores have seemed to become a bit harsher this gen. Although like mario and souls, I agree it won't affect uncharted.



Aerys said:
Édit : No now i think it will even struggle to reach 6M lft


LOL. Halo Collection sold around that alone in about half a year.



Halo has peaked, i expect Halo 6 to sell half of Halo 5s numbers