Sony aquires "Insomniac Games"

[JRPGfan]

DonFerrari said:

Barkley said:

GOTY version was supposedly briefly up on Amazon which should boost sales some more. Could beat Uncharted 4 to become their best selling 1st party game (on a single platform).

15m+ lifetime is guaranteed anyway. Incredible. Shows the importance of building install base and a fan base through high quality titles. Who would have thought at the start of the generation that Sony would be putting out multiple games that sold more than Halo 5 and Gears 4 combined.

I remember the threads were it was given as certain that Halo 5 and Gears 4 each one would do much better than basically any PS4 exclusive. Those were the days. Most have left VGC, hide away or pretend that it isn't important anymore.

We have no idea about actual sales of Halo 5 & Gears 4.

On Neogaf, Frank o Conor, posted "Halo 5" did almost 5 million sales abit after its first 3 months.

With Gears, all we know is its had ~6.4 million players, that have played it. 
With Gamepass/resales/trades/multiple users for same disk,... its hard to say exactly how many sales that is.

Since then? nothing.
So I still think Halo is bigger for sales than Gears is, on xbox.

I feel like if Halo crossed 10m sales, someone at xbox side would have announced it.
With 40m+ consoles out there, if attach rate was ~25% it should be possible to do.
Im guessing its under 10m.

Meanwhile Sony has 6? games over 10m, and a few reaching towards the 20m mark.
install base gives a huge edge though.... like if you manage to sell 130m+ consoles, its hard to imagine you dont sell a few 10m+ titles of your own.

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 20 August 2019