jason1637 said:
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.Please don't use that formatting again, ewwww. Sorry for my lengthy posts btw : p not trying to be malicious.
The sales are impressive for a game on one console but they aren't gangbusters. If you want to add Dead Rising 3 to a list of 2 other impressive games, than you can go ahead, but I feel like for an Xbox one launch game it could have been a smash hit. I know the Dead Rising series has always been on the lower end of the spectrum, but I think it's pretty crazy how Dead Rising 3 didn't do like 3+ mil in physical alone. I mean Microsoft heavily marketed it and it was one of the only games to play when getting an Xbox One. It didn't get nearly the backlash 4 got either. So I guess from my perspective, Dead Rising 3 sold pretty well for it's franchise , but as a whole "impressive"? I wouldn't really say so. It walks the line between "It sold pretty well!" and "I'm surprised it didn't sell better". I mean the game has sold 2.3 million, which is good, but not that good compared to 2. It's been out so long I'm surprised it hasn't sold better than 2 by now. So no , I wouldn't say it's impressive as a whole.
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I don't know MCC was bundled a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot, like I even got a Halo MCC bundle a few months before Halo 5. I meant on the xbox platform. Almost every game of 2014 was panned by players, so even if there was a lot ot play I don't think it's too surprising that Halo MCC sold well considering the fact that Halo had a pedigree Destiny and Watch Dogs didn't. I was talking about exclusives mostly, there just wasn't many exclusives to play. Halo MCC and Gears UE did do fairly well though, I'm not trying to take that away from the One, but I just think the original games on Xbox One didn't considering they're new.
I don't think those sales are that good at all. I really really don't think Gears 4 will sell an additional 2 million. Like I don't think you, or a lot of people, grasp just how much of sales are accumulated in the first few months. Gears 4's period has paced and it didn't do well. It's that simple. Comparing it to Gears 1 is just goes to show that. Gears 1 was an extremely unproven game, so having to backtrack all the way to the IP's inception(and remember it launched when the PS3 and Wii were coming out and Xbox as a brand was still unproven) just goes to show how far 4 has fallen. Also, you're completely wrong about it tracking ahead of Gears 1. Gears 1 had incredibly strong legs in large part because it was unproven, and then when it came out, it became a smash hit! Looking at Gears 1 sales, it sold 3.15 million copies by it's 9th week JUST PHYSICALLY. Gears 4 sold 2.25 million by it's 10th week, and if we're to assume the digital attach rate is 25% it was at 2.8. So no, it's not on track to outsell Gears 1. To give you some perspective, Gears 4 would have to have a 15% increase in digital sales. It's digital attach rate would have to be 40%. Now, that's not exactly standard for a lot of console games, although it could happen. Somewhat unlikely, but also a little likely. I still don't seee how that's anything but mediocre at this point in the franchises history, and I doubt it has the legs of 1 either, so in reality it has probably always been below the first games sales, but even if it wasn't originally, it most likely isn't even close to the original games legs by comparison, meaning it still probably won't get to the 6 million marker.
I don't think that's impressive when it's a launch title and the series already had marked success prior. I mean 3 should have knocked out every Xbox installement, but it barely sold better then them and it took 3 years to do so. It sold well but it wasn't impressive.
Wait a minute...Halo 5 has higher sales than a side Halo game? Well by god, I take back everything I said! Hahaha. It is EXTREMELY mediocre for a franchise that used to be a juggernaught. I mean Halo used to be a valid competitor to Mario in terms of it's iconic status - maybe not worldwide, but the sales were buttery smooth consistent. Not look at Halo 5. Keep in mind I know 5-6 mil is great for other franchises. But for Halo it's extremely mediocre, and I don't think that can be emphasize enough. I mean Halo 3 sold around 15 million copies. Reach and 4 probably sold 11 million. I mean if Mario Odyssey releases and after a few years it sells 7 million copies and I hear people say "but bu - 2 plus million digital sales!" I would just be laughing my ass off.
Because Rare Replay and Ori are different beasts entirely. They're small projects that don't take Microsoft a lot of work and basically only require that daddy Xbox gives them allowance now and then to fix a few bugs or publish the game. I don't think Rare Replay speaks to Xbox's brand. I think that's changing a bit for Ori - I do see more people associating it with Microsoft, but considering it isn't a huge investment, considering you can buy it on steam(a competitor to Microsoft's Windows Store), considering it's no really a top tier Microsoft franchise, I just don't see how Ori - or Rare Replay fits in this discussion that well. I won't say they don't count, I guess they do technically, but I was really talking about Xbox and the big runner ups.
