Normchacho said:
1. Where are you getting 4 million physical sales 3 months after launch? If it had shipped 5 million units (including digital sales) how would it have sold 4 million retail copies at the same time? As I pointed out, game shipments are very few and far between after the launch window. 2. It grossed $400m with combined software and hardware sales? Which means...what, exactley? Uncharted 4 sold more than 2.7 million copies in it's first week. How many copies did Halo 5 sell? Since, this is a discussion of video game sales, not gross revenue. 3. The way I "should" look at it? You mean the way that fits your narrative? Tell me, is Halo 5 not Microsofts best selling exclusive? It has also had more than twice the amount of time to sell, and has already gone through its first holiday season. Not to mention, Uncharted actually isn't Sonys best selling exclusive franchise. Though, GT does seem to find itself in a similar situation as Halo. 4. I'll reiterate. Halo 5 is way down from previous games. Why would it's lackluster sales be to its credit? "Yay, you almost sold as well as a game you should have outsold easily"? 5. It's also important to point out that because Halo 5 is older, and hasn't sold aswell, each week that goes by will have it slipping farther and farther behind Uncharted 4. 6. No, it likely wouldn't be outselling Uncharted 4 at all. Uncharted 4s average weekly sales are more than double those of Halo 5. Especially since the smaller a userbase, the more likely they are to be dedicated to the exclusives of that console company (look at Nintendo). Uncharted 4 is selling better than Halo 5. It's lifetime sales, will be higher than Halo 5. Halo is not the franchise it used to be. |
Do you understand how sales work? Uncharted 4 is outselling Halo 5 right now on a weekly basis because it’s still fresh. That’s because Halo 5 is a year old. Sales don’t pick up steam after launch. UC4 is also claiming dimensioning sales. Which game will have the longest legs will be the interesting story. As of right now UC4 hasn’t outsold Halo 5s lifetime sales as its been on 4m copies for the past couple of months. UC4 has just reached that milestone. That’s just Physical sales.
As for the Digital sales debate, MS claimed Halo 5 is there bestselling Xbox Live game *at the time* so expect an increase of something around the 20% mark on top of its physical sales. Which means Halo 5 is beyond the 4.2m VGchart numbers. So add another 800,000 copies to Halo 5 if MS’s Claims are true and it’s their bestselling Live game which is around the 20% mark.
Halo 5 being the disappointment it is to the franchise, it still keeps up with Sony’s best game which has double the User base. Halo 5 is considered on the bottom of the sales list in the Halo universe and will probably still reach the 7 to 8million milestone. UC4 will probably end up being the same.
It shouldn’t be a surprise UC4 has sold more in half the time because again it has twice the User base. Halo 5 came out on a platform gamers were neglecting and wasn’t as big of a hit compared to its predecessors yet still managed to pull out good numbers.
Until we get info on UC4s digital sales, it has not outsold Halo 5. We know Halo 5 has done extremely well with the digital side.
Halo is not the franchise it used to be. < Yeah yeah, we said the same thing when Halo 4 come out. Its sales say otherwise.
Just to add Halo 5 also has a stronger MP and is huge in Esports so it will continue to sell, might not be big numbers but will add up. Halo 4 did the same.
