Halo 5 sold 5 million in 3 months!

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nanarchy said:

Ryng_Tolu said:

There is an important difference, MS overshipped, Nintendo didn't.

Splatoon gap in sales/shipments was 50k in japan, most likely barely over 300K WW. (which should still mean something like 3.75m WW)

 

We all know MS overship like crazy, there most likely over 1.5 million difference between sold and shipped, if not more.

 

Not to mention that Splatoon is almost for sure gonna be a NX thing at this point, so let's just be over this, even if for some miracle Halo 5 will outsell the Wii U version, no way it beat NX+Wii U combined.

Bullshit, they can only ship what retailers order. That argument might hold for the first month or so when retailers over estimate demand but they certainly won't continue that way for months post release.

Well, that's technically true but it didn't stop MS from so insanely overshipping the Titanfall bundle to the point that there were piles and piles of them still showing up all over the place when Holiday 2014 rolled around, several months after the bundle stopped being produced.  MS also is a large company with a fairly successful console, they have more leverage when negotiating sales to retailers than Nintendo with the Wii U.  Just saying, MS loves to push as many through the channels as possible.  Nintendo has had a hard time this whole gen both getting stores to buy large quantities and meeting demand when it ramps up.