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OneKartVita on 24 November 2015
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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.


I've 4 friends who got halo 5 and all 3 got it at retail.  My anecdotal evidence suggests 100% retail.  

 

In reality the only thing driving digital higher for Halo 5 then other AAA retail releases is the digital copy in the bundle.  Sadly these digital copies are counted as sales on chart track UK,  media create Japan, NPD USA and Vgchartz.  So they can't be added on to the numbers. 

 

Gamestop ceo is in a position to find these things out much better than a random analyst. And if digital really was higher than 25% not including bundled digital Microsoft would be shouting from the rooftops.  They went to the bother of including hardware in their halo sales PR they'd definitely mention an extremely high digital sales ratio to help off set the gigantic retail decline in the series. 

 

But they didn't and we all know because halo is nothing special and doesn't get a digital ratio higher than other big AAA games.  People need to accept the decline and just move on.  Big franchises don't stay at the top forever.  Sales aren't bad,  just bad for Halos former standards.