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."

[DonFerrari]

kowenicki said:

DonFerrari said:

alabtrosMyster said:

Those guys are funny, why would this happen? Destiny or Star-Wars Battlefront would have a chance to sell more digitally than other titles, because you do not play them offline AT ALL... but Halo whatever has an offline campaign and many people wanted this game for its campaign .. and couch coop...

Oh well, people like to hope for things to happen, whatever they are... I like it when stuff I like somehow becomes popular... but not too much because as much as I like validation, I prefer to be hip

And sure that the most beloved franchise of MS will have half of the people not wanting the boxart in their shelves to add to the collection... everybody will start to collect bytes.... odd isn't it?

I have bought every previous halo game at retail and mostly collectors editions, same for my brother.  I can provide photos if you like.

I bought Halo 5 digitally, as did my brother and many of the people I know.  Not scientific I know, but it is indicative.  This halo will be the highest dgital halo, that is obvious.  By how much? who knows?... but Gamestop sure dont know.

Kowen, we may disagree a lot of times, but I don't take you for a liar.

And sure digital sales are increasing... but a jump from 20 to 50% in one year seems a small streach don't you think?

I just find strange to accept to pay the same amount without box, art and all the other things to keep on shelves. I accept that even though your evidence isn't universal truth it's applicable, but not sure how much of the collectors would choose that, perhaps you aren't a collector, just a very passionated fan? Because my collector side makes me keep physical things orderly for when I want to look at them.