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Neodegenerate on 30 November 2015
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jonhalo said:
Neodegenerate said:


It's not a conspiracy it is a possible situation.

The fact that they chose that wording instead of something like "best-selling digital game ever on an xbox platform for an opening week" or "best-selling digital game ever in an opening week" can indeed lead people to see spin, regardless of the intent.


sure. everything is possible. just like a 90% digital attachrate
they said xbox store. not xbox one store. was probably obvious enough for them. who would have thought about all the interpretation in some forums.
microsoft didn't even notice an xbox one could be named xbone by the internet.

it's up for everyone to believe on or the other.

Sure everything is possible.  However, when you have companies who rely on their image to the consumer/investors and thus word things deliberately in ways to get that image to shine, you can start to read between lines.  When a company stops giving specific numbers, you can read between the lines and see they aren't meeting the expectations they expected.  When a company words things in a specific way, you can tell they are trying to make something sound good.

Hell, during last night's football game in an attempt to make the Broncos QB look like something special they gave us a ridiculous stat about him being the only QB in history to make his first start on his birthday and win.  Useless information designed to inflate the player.  Same thing in all forms of business.

End of the day, if Halo had a 90% digital purchase, MS would've said it was the highest digital sales item in history.  If it surpassed what Destiny did for percentage, they would've mentioned that too (and they might have, I haven't paid that much attention to it).  By weeding out some of the records and such they DIDN'T mention, you can start to infer what they actually mean.