Normchacho said:
Azzanation said:
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.
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1. Yes. I explicitly said that it was selling faster because it hasn't been on sale as long. Which means that it's sales lead will only grow in the coming months because it has managed to sell more retail copies than Halo 5 in less than half the time.
2. I don't understand what you mean by "its been at 4m for the past couple of months"
3. Halo 5 was the best selling game digitally on the Xbox One first week at the time. which is great, but we don't really know what that means long term.
4. So essentially what you're saying is that until you are given 100% concrete proof that Uncharted 4 has outsold Halo 5. You're going to just assume Halo 5 has sold better?
5. Critically Halo 4 doesn't measure up to the other mainline Halo games, and with 5 sales seem to be reflecting the dip in quality since 343 took over the franchise.
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For the thing of Halo being the best selling digital game first week. That doesn't means nothing, Microsoft always spin that things when a game launched. It could have being " The best selling first week Microsoft published game's digital sales on Xbox one of all times".
All the games that Microsoft made before of that struggled to surpass 1 million lifetime with the exception of Forza. Isn't so hard to surpass.
