| donsterydo2 said: Believe it now? Halo: Reach sold 7m and is heavily ovetracked here.
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the thing about that list is that the devs claimed halo series sold 40mil by May 2011. This was before Halo anniversary was released and with less than a year of halo reach sales. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(series)#Reception_and_critical_response. Total Halo merchandise sales was $2bil at that time.
6mil+8mil+10mil+2mil+5mil+7mil=38mil.
This list is from after Anniversary got over 1.5mil, So its probably from January 2012 or later. By January 2012 total Halo merchandise sales were $2.8billion. Sales had gone up 800million dollars since May, and clearly Halo Anniversary didn't drive all those sales. There wasn't any halo movie, nor were there any extremly popular halo toys that came out. I have no idea about books though.
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Also if these were current sales of Halo Reach, they would have included the 1mil+ digital bundles that came with consoles over the holidays. So that means Halo Reach only sold 6mil. Which is clearly wrong considering npd had it at close to 5mil in USA alone at September 2011.
I do think Reach is overtracked. NPD had it at around 5mil, September last year, while Vgchartz has it at 5.5mil by September in USA. The only physical bundles I'm aware of that came with phyiscal copies of Reach in USA are the limited edition consoles and I doubt that sold over 500k. So I'm assuming its 300k-400k overtracked in USA.
Also I think Halo 4 will only manage Halo Reach like sales. It should outsell it initially, but its legs will collapse when the nextbox comes out.
