RUMOR: Halo 5 sold 1.4-1.5 Million in US

[3sexty]

Zekkyou said:

3sexty said:

Why do people keep saying that the xboxone is in a not so good state/ shape when it is still leading the 360 in the equivalent timeframe? Was the 360 in poor shape at the same time point in time? Not sure I understand this??

It wasn't necessarily in 'poor shape', but the 360 did have quite a slow start, and had a very drawn out peak period (VGC numbers):

2005: 1.2m
2006: 6.8m
2007: 7.9m
2008: 10.9m
2009: 10.2m
2010: 13.3m
2011: 13.8m
2012: 10.7m
2013: 6.2m
2014: 2.6m

So while the X1 is presently a few million ahead, in relative terms it's outpacing a console that hasn't yet entered its very drawn out peak period. So unless the X1 sees a similar sales curve (which presently seems unlikely), or something happens to cause its sales to fly through the roof for the next few years, it will fall quite short of the 360 once all it said and done. It's not completely outside the realm of possibility that the X1 ends up ahead, it just looks rather unlucky right now.

That all said, i personally think those saying that the X1 is in a bad place are wrong. Even if it does fail to match its predecessor by a large margin, it's doing more than well enough to justify its existence. If it wasn't it wouldn't have such strong 3rd party support.

Thank for this and yes I would agree - I had not taken into consideration all these factors. Great response and well thought out.