MoHasanie said:
Halo is a franchise in delcline?!? You do realize that Halo 4 was the fastest selling Halo game right? That game has also most likely crossed 9 million sales by now in just over a year. No PS exclusive can sell that much that fast. |
Yep. Fastest selling =/= highest selling. And we're only talking USA here. Looking at comulative sales Halo 4 is looking to repeat Halo:Reach sales track: started out selling faster than Halo 3, but by 100 weeks Reach was tracking behind Halo 3. With Halo 4 it started out tracking much higher than Reach, but now it's cumulative is very close to Reach with the same amount of time on the market. Halo 4 will not achieve the sales of Halo 3 in the USA, with double the US install base.
Also consider my other point that Halo didn't grow very much since Halo 2. So 90% of the US's Halo market is within the 15.7 million people who bought the original Xbox. Halo 5 is important for Xb one to keep these people on board, but that's just a stop loss strategy not a growth strategy.
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