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Aura7541 on 07 November 2015
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Snoopy said:
Aura7541 said:

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.

I agree that the seres is doing fine, but it is also experiencing a not-so-negligible decline. Also, the userbase argument doesn't really work since Halo 3 also had a similar debut and the 360's userbase was even smaller (especially, when you take into account the RROD).

You're also repeating the same things you have said before. I already pointed out that Halo 5 is facing competition from Black Ops 3 and Battlefront. Abdiel has pointed out that Halo 5 vanished when BO3 launched and Battlefront is getting a lot of hype leading up to its launch on November 17. Halo 5 may have legs, but they might not start churning until after November when the hype around Battlefront will have settled down.

Snoopy said:

Is that why COD, Madden, Fifa,BF and more games sold well on ps3, but not GT6 lol.

Nice non sequitor. GT6's sales likely resulted from circumstance rather than decline, which was my main point.