How Much Will Halo 5 Sell Lifetime?

[dangerguy]

small44 said:

dangerguy said:
Yeah, it's a very different situation than when Halo 3 came out. There was nothing else. There was no Call of Duty. Halo doesn't have the appeal it used it. I'm going to say 3.5 million and even that feels optimistic to me.

When Halo 3 came Call of duty was already big Call of duty has 0 effect on Halo serie

Ok, sorry, let me clarify that: Call of Duty 4.

Call of Duty 4 had a signficant effect on the Halo franchise after it launched in November 2007. In regards to being the "go to" multiplayer. Halo was the premier competitive MP game. Halo 2 and Halo 3 were the pinnacle. That completely changed in November 2007 when COD4 launched.

Halo 3 was out about 6 weeks before COD4. Halo was the game of the era. On Xbox 360 you were either playing Gears of War or Halo. The COD era hadn't really started yet. I was an absolute hardcore Halo player, especially Halo 3. However, once COD4 launched that November, it was game over for me. The COD "formula" and gameplay won my heart over.

My point is, because of COD, Battlefield, now Titanfall, etc, Halo will never be what it was. And even if Halo 4 would have been an epic return to the series, the landscape has changed.