RUMOR: Halo 5 sold 1.4-1.5 Million in US

[Snoopy]

Aura7541 said:

Snoopy said:

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.

Halo 4 sold 3.8 million world wide first week. Halo 5 sales according to OP is first month DEBUT which is only 4 days. So 3 more days can easily put it above 2 million in U.S. alone with UK and the rest of the world and of course digitial sales it will probably meet those sales. That and the fact Halo 4 came out when 360 had a bigger user base. The series is doing fine. COD had a decline from MW3 and onwards ,but not one will ever ever call it a failure. Also, I never argued percentage regaring preorders, just a fact that everyone who preorders not going to buy it and Microsoft never released first week sales for Halo title like you claimed so you're wrong yet again.