jason1637 on 03 November 2015
| binary solo said: Sounds like 7.7 million GBP, factoring in limited/special edition sales at a higher price point, and 150K hard copy more or less confirmed for the opening weekend, means not all that many digital sales. Taking the best case scenario of every game copy being sold at 40GBP equating to 192.5K the best possible digital share is 22%. That seems to be what people think was about the digital share towards the end of last generation for games that had day 1 digital releases. I don't know whether Halo 5 is a special case because fans want that game case proudly displayed on their shelves, or whether for consoles digital sales are staying pretty static at on average 20% of total sales. A link to the source of the information in the OP would be good. Also does this indicate whether the 7.7 million takes account of the Halo 5 Xb one bundle? i.e. the revenue MS got over and above the base price for a Xb one? Taking account of the bundle it might add a few tens of thousands to the first full week Halo 5 install base. Still if the official record shows Halo 5 as the lowest selling main numbered Halo in the UK that is not great news for Halo, albeit it will still sell plenty and make MS a decent swag of money. |
