It will sell a lot of games I'm sure, being cross gen and all that. But Activision went a bit cuckoo putting $500 million into it so it won't make profit for Acti. The big question is whether Acti are expecting Destiny to make profit, or whether they are choosing to put huge effort into the launch of a new franchise to try to ensure the next 3 or 4 Destiny games are huge profit makers with only needing a fairly small marketing budget; the game will sell itself.
So you can't judge commercial success or failure unless you know Acti's KPIs for the game.
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