Snoopy on 24 November 2015
| Angelv577 said: So some people are still hanging on digital sales with the hope that halo 5 sales haven't under performed or sold below expectations compare to its predecessors. Guys it doesn't matter how you slice it, even if the game sold very well, it's in fact below expectations. First week WW sales: halo 3: 3.81 halo 4: 3.66 The numbers that we got from NPD and UK are: US: 935k with bundles Uk: 150k Total: 1,085m If vgchartz estimate is close to real numbers at retail, that means that the rest of the world numbers (countries that xb1 has barely userbase) are: 1.5m-1.085m=415k for the rest of the world I am having a hard time believing the rest of the world numbers considering xb1 userbase elsewhere but I guess those numbers comes from the 28% ratio allocated to those countries based on prior halo's. Assuming 1.5m is in fact what halo 5 sold FW at retail WW 1.5m * 1.20 (20%)= 1.8m 1.5m * 1.30 (30%)=1.95m ( digital ratio above average) 1.5m * 1.40 (40%)=2.1m (way above average) 1.5m * 1.45 (45%)=2.18m (way way above average) 1.5m * 1.50 (50%)=2.25m (unreasonable) It doesn't matter how you slice it, halo 5 sold way less than halo 3 and halo 4 FW. Sure halo 3 had more days in their first NPD but if you allocate somes sales to cover for those days, it still doesn't make up for the difference. Waiting for any MS numbers regarding to digital sales is a waste of time because everyone know it's not gonna happen. When there are numbers unfavorable that can be compare with other numbers, MS have a tendency of hiding those numbers (I'm looking at you xb1) so let leave it at halo 5 sold very well but it's not what it used to be and move on. |
Halo had a massive decline since Halo Rearch/Halo 4. Halo Reach/Halo 4 sold less than Halo 3 despite having a much bigger install base by the time the games were released. Halo 5 just seem worse due to being the first one to be released on new hardware after Halo 3. Halo 3 really benefited from having no competition.
