RUMOR: Halo 5 sold 1.4-1.5 Million in US

[Aura7541]

Snoopy said:

Aura7541 said:

Preorder do equal sales. Cancelled preorders do not make any significant statistical difference, so I'm not sure why you are making things up like this.

Digital sales may be higher than last gen, but Halo 5's physical sales are way, way lower than its predecessors. The digital rate needs to be over 50% in order to compensate for such a large drop.

Preorder does not equal sales at all. People forget to pick up the game, they cancel the game, they ignore the game or sometimes they will buy the game at a later date. Also, Halo 5 physical sales are not way lower. It is around Halo 4 league (3.8 million) and if Digital and physical gets counted together is right there with it despite not having the userbase that was xbox 360 in 2012. 

Do you have a citation that proves that cancelled preorders make a huge difference? Yes or no? You have not provided any empirical evidence, so why make such a faith-based claim?

The rest of your comment reeks of ignorance. Halo 3 and Reach, for instance, sold 3.3 million physical copies in the US alone. 1.4-1.5 is less than half of that. The digital rate has to be unrealistically astronomical in order to compensate for such a gap.