Halo 5 advert.....6 months before release

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JustBeingReal said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Thats decent enough I guess, but I don't see it winning the holiday season for Sony. Halo will sell consoles on its own for sure though.

As I said in my post it will move some, but it's not the big system seller that you seem to believe it to be.

If past games in the series could increase hardware sales by hundreds of thousands you'd have a point, especially if it had some long standing effect for weeks after release (which doesn't happen), but looking at past entries in the series it's beem the fact that people already have an XBox that has sold so many copies of the game.

Best case scenario Halo 5 moves maybe an additional 50K XBox One's compared to the previous week, the game will no doubt sell at least 2 million units release week, but it's highly doubtful it'll do much more than that.

If MS bundles the game, with some other titles then that will help, but then that's not Halo 5 having the system selling effect by itself, it's just giving a new AAA release away with the platform.

 

This gen XBox doesn't have the 3rd party preference like it did last gen, which will surely have an effect on how numbers rise when Halo 5 comes out.

Sony had no major exclusive for 4th quarter last year and Microsoft outsold the PS4 with a price cut. If Halo 4 drops they will move consoles. This is the first Halo on the Xbox One. 360 gamers who are fans will be forced to jump ship. Just wait.