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."

[hudsoniscool]

Angelv577 said:

hudsoniscool said:

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: 
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.

Just to let u know ur math is wrongif a game sells 1.5 million retail and 50% of its sells are digital that makes 

50% of 3m= 1.5m,  what you are saying here is that total retail sales were 3m and that 50% of that(half) is digital. what we are looking here is attach rate of total retail sales which is 1.5m, not 3m.  that brings us at 1.5m * .50=750k,  1.5m + 750k= 2.25m same as 1.5m * 1.50=2.25m.  Are you sure my math is wrong. if we know for sure that digital is less than retail then we have to use digital attach ratio of total retail sales.  its the same way to calculate sales tax, if sales tax is 7% out of $1= 7 cents which can be calculate as $1*1.07= 1.07 or 1*.07=.07+1=1.07 which is 1 dollar and 7 cents..  attach ratio was 7% per each dollar= 7 cents or per each dollar,you have to add 7 cents which mean that if you have $2, sales tax will be 14cents but attach ratio is still 7%. 2*.07=.14+2= 2.14 or 2* 1.07=2.14

The only way my math was wrong is that instead of applying 50% to total retail sales, I apply 50% to total sales(digital+retail).  in this case, we have 1.5m retail which is one half, the other half is digital or to put easier 1.5m retail(50%) + 1.5m digital(the other 50%)=3m.  this doesnt make sense to me because that's like saying it sold the same amount in both and as far as I know retail is still nuch bigger than digital.

Ya all I'm saying is if Microsoft came out and said(just an example) that halo 5 did 2 million physical copies, and digital was 50%, then it's total sales would be 4 million. Looking at people's numbers on here you would think it only adds up to 3 million. 1 million being half of the physical sales but but obviously that's not 50 percent of the total.