darkenergy said:
Dead Rising 3/Forza Horizon 3 alone throws your comment out the window. |
I was mostly taking the piss, as I do with all gaming companies, but if you're going to take it seriously then your refute is laughable tbh.
Forza games have sold pretty consistently so that's some nice cash for Microsoft, but i noticed you're examples are extremely selective. The Horizon series I think gains a lot of it's consistent sales from it being a newer entry in the series, in actuality Forza titles have been decreasing in popularity looking at their main titles(and don't give me the "but mah download sales").
Dead Rising 3's total sales are impressive and it sold fairly fast but Dead Rising 1 and 2 still have better sales. It will still probably end up being the 2nd best selling Dead rising though, so cheers for that. Actually, it probably outsold 1 already, so cheers for that.
In addition, even with Halo 5 sellling 5 million in 3 months(includig digital) and being "the most profitable Halo launch" it falls short of almost every Halo in a 3 month timeframe. Halo Reach sold 5 million in less than a month, so did 3 and 4. And Gears of War 4 physically sold an estimated 617k units in it's first week. So ... Splatoon 2 numbers in Japan alone. And these games have bundles.
Keep in mind I'm commenting on Microsoft's "top product" - the stuff that sells. If you honestly think Dead Rising or Forza Horizon prove a point, then I would ask how Quantum Break or Recore or Dead Rising 4 don't. To me, those are much better examples because they are literal flops instead of decent success's like the Horizon series. And how Halo and Gears sales don't prove a point. Or how Forza sales don't. etc
