CGI-Quality said:
I can imagine them gaining back 500k-1 million, but not much more than that since no other Halo ever provided such a boost. Could it happen, yes. |
OK so I looked at the numbers.
Halo 3 maybe sold 500k systems (40% sales boost for 2 weeks, http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39355/Global/, to count the rest is too much math, so I'm ballparking). 360's first price cut (1 yr after halo 3) gave it a similar boost (http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39698/Global/), and that was a $50 price cut. If X1 got a $100 price cut alongside Halo 5 releasing I could see that being the catalyst to the gap closing 1.5-2m over the next 2 or 3 quarters.
BUT this is assuming there's a price cut, and it's a big one, and Halo 5 is as big as Halo 3 (which seems unlikely given all the extra competition in FPSs now), and PS4 doesn't have it's own system sellers, and so many other variables. So you're probably right and I overestimated the impact price cuts and big franchises have on platform sales.
