Halo 5 vs Uncharted 4

[DivinePaladin]

Normchacho said:

DivinePaladin said:

According to reports, Halo 5 outsold the MCC by 50% in the UK. If we stretch that worldwide, Halo 5 is selling about 1.6 million FW. While that's more than any Uncharted game to date, that's pretty low for Halo and very close to TLoU did. With ND's extended star power among fans after TLoU, and the Uncharted audience being potentially much higher because of the Xbox exodus, I can see Uncharted winning FW. Worldwide there's no question. The reviews for 5 aren't looking too too hot, so there'll be some slight backlash for that. Plus Uncharted is going to be marketed to all hell and bundled, whereas MS is going for a "look at all our games" marketing strategy instead of any one game. 

1.6 million FW? There's no way MGSV on the PS4 sold as much as Halo 5 FW. If that's true then that's a disaster.

I...I can't imagine it sold less than 2.5 million first week, and even that would be a huge drop from past Halo games.

According to the UK report, it's sold half of what Halo 4 did FW in the UK and is worse than ODST FW there too. The UK is supposed to be a big Halo market, no? If it's doing worse than goddamn ODST FW there, does that, on paper, somehow not spell bad things for the US market? Going by this it's not out of the question that Halo 5 is gonna do pretty low FW. Given, ODST still did 2.2m FW riding entirely on Halo 3's back and the Reach beta, but that was an entirely different time. Numbers and trends don't lie, though, so if H5 is doing 70% of ODST...oh look, 1.5m FW. Unless you think the US market is going to be exceedingly strong like never seen before, going against a VERY solid trend that Halo has had for about a decade, Halo 5 is not putting up Halo numbers FW. Sorry.