AngryLittleAlchemist said:
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 |
This post is actually the one that's laughble.
First don't ignore digital sales, the priciest versions of Forza Motorsport 6 were released earlier then the standard editions especially those who purchase it digitally which is mostly why FM6 had "lower sales" than FM5 in fact 6 is just behind 5 and with 6 having a better reception then 5 it should have sold better then it. Also Forza Horizon 3 sold 2.5 million by the end of 2016 and vgchartz has it under 2 million so it is physically undertracked or digital is at 500K or a little bit of both which goes to the next thing
With the mixed reception Halo 5 got, 5 million copies in 3 months isn't bad and by now I would not be surprised if it is around 7.5 million sold now. Again you are ignoring digital for Gears 4 if they are included with physical then it is likely it sold over a million first week. Then you realise that both Halo and Gears are way more popular than Forza and looking at FH3's sales compared with vgchartz you would wonder if digital sales for Halo 5 and Gears 4 are WAY above those of Horizon 3.
Are you forgetting Ori and the Blind Forest? Pretty sure this Xbox exclusive sold well or else there wouldn't be a sequel. Recore will be getting a definite edition that is likely going to be announced at Gamescom that will help it gets sales.
People keep saying the QB flopped but there are 2 things that seem that it isn't the case:
1.When I went to my local Target and went to the games section I notice that Quantum Break was still at full price but for Mass Effect Andromeda and even Infinite Warfare they were both $40. If QB really didn't sell well then the price should have fallen to $20 by now but that wasn't the case but the other 2 did get a price drop fast especially Mass Effect.
2.On Remedy's website a while back they stated that in one of their quarterly results they mention that they saw an increase in profits and mentions one of the key reasons was because of Quantum Break.
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