Halo 5: Guardians sells more than $400 million (games and hardware)

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binary solo said:

endimion said:
I don't know about you but I wouldn't count reports of poor retail sales at face value... Most XBO owners and especially halo fans bought it online no doubt about it... It's not a game you resell until the next one come and by then it's worthless on the second hand market.... So yeah pretty sure halo 5 will beat global sales of 4 in attached rate even in the UK... Actually everywhere, no doubt about it... And since when ethomaz says anything right about XBO???

So you are claiming that >50% of Halo 5 sales will be digital? I think there is considerable doubt about that.

40% would be a pretty amazing digital sales level. My feeling is that people with a special attachment to a game would tend to want to have a physical copy in their lives, not all but a pretty high proportion. I know for me a game I feel a special connection to I will absolutely buy physical, whereas a game I merely like I will buy digital once our download speeds improve and if I have the HDD space.

40% would be more than amazing; when Destiny sold 20% digital copies, in 2014, those were record levels of digital sales. Keep in mind, that from 2014 to 2015, console digital sales grew "only" 29%. That would mean that a new record level, for a release like this, would be ~26%.