Barozi said:
Aura7541 said:
Barozi said:
thread has really gone downhill.
People coming in without realising this is US only (and a rumor).
People claiming that UK = ~(Worldwide minus US) for X1 software sales.
CoD AW First Week (US 57.5%; UK 12.9%; Rest 29.6%)
Destiny First Week (US 59.4%; UK 12.7%; Rest 27.9%)
Halo MCC First Week (US 60.3%; UK 11.4%; Rest 28.3%)
People trying to act as if 10%, 20% or 30% digital sales of a game that sold about 2m retail WW (if the rumor is correct) is as insignificant as the same ratio for games that do well below 1m. (hint: even if the ratio is the same, the absolute numbers are quite different).
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If the rumor is correct, Halo 5 should be around 2.1m retail and probably around 2.5m with digital.
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The bundle is not included as the number allegedly comes from NPD, so standalone physical copies only.
I made some calculations based on the numbers you gave. Halo 5 might have sold between 2.8 - 3.0 million worldwide. That's still lower than how much 3, Reach, and 4 sold in the US alone.
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According to which source?
VGC has all of them at about 2.4m for the first week in the US. (none of them were digitally available at launch)
Halo 3 is obviously the pinnacle of the series in terms of sales. It had an insane first week considering how early it came out in that generation.
I doubt anyone was expecting Halo 5 to beat that when even Reach and 4 couldn't with a much higher userbase. And that brings me to my second point. Was anyone expecting Halo 5 to outsell Reach or 4 in the first week when there is this huge discrepancy in userbase?
Just because Halo 5 isn't close to the monster launch that was Halo 3 doesn't mean that the numbers are low.
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The numbers are not low. No one is saying that they're flat out low. What people are arguing, is that the numbers for the franchise have a very noticeable decrease relative to other mainline Halo launches.
Before the launch, there were two vocal minorities making a prediction - the first said that Halo 5 would sell record breaking numbers or pegged their first week numbers rather high. The second group said the franchise was in decline and thought Halo 5 would be the worst performing yet. The non vocal majority probably didn't care.
This matters to some users on a sales site because MS needs this title to perform at a certain level to remain relevant in the console/gaming space. If Halo 5 has indeed sold a fraction of the last big Halo launch, then the possibility of MS leaving the console space becomes more likely.
