Did MS just win the North American console market?

[binary solo]

MoHasanie said:

binary solo said:
Halo didn't grow much as a franchise between XB and 360 so people are putting too much stock in its ability to make xbox one the winner, and it's a franchise in gradual decline. Gears was always Xb so there's no gain or loss, and Judgement was a big drop for the franchise so who knows how big future game sales will be? Fable is largely a non-issue. Titanfall is multiplatform.

So I don't see any of those games putting MS over the top in the USA individually or collectively.-

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.