Halo 5 : "Industry sources support our belief that Halo 5 digital sales were much closer to half of units than the 20-25% GameStop is suggesting."

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Naufraguito said:

SWORDF1SH said:

Naufraguito said:

Why are you subtracting the 200k two times??

At the end Halo 5 is selling less with digital, than without digital.

Yeah like Eikichi said, The first one is to take the digital sales away from the 930k with bundles Halo 5 fw sales to get the retail number.

From that I then extact the the 45% from the retail number to get the total digital numbers. I then subtracted (the second subtraction) the digital copies included in the bundles from the total digital sales. I then added the difference to the reported 930k with bundles to come up with total amount, retail + digital.

But these maths are only right if we assume that:

- When the analysts and Gamestop talk about 25 or 45% of the units sold, are talking about the physical units sold, and not the total units sold. If they are talking about the total units sold, then physical (730k) is the 55-75% and digital is the 45-25% remainng.

- They don't separate the bundles when they talk about the percentage of digital.

We know that 930k Halo have been sold, with the bundles, but bundles are digital, so Swordfish removes the bundles in order to have an estimate of the physical part and thus obtain the total sale physical and digital.