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fighter on 03 October 2012
Jay520 said:
JayWood2010 said:

I didnt say you said anything bad about it, what Im saying is there is no need to speculate on something that is accurate compared to something that isnt.  This site has never been accurate.  If they say it's sold 43 million then that's what it has sold.   We don't know exactly what games he is including or if it is retail only, we just don't know.  


If you recognize that I didn't say anything bad about the franchise, then there's no reason to bring it up. Period.

No we don't know if and by how much it's overtracked. That's why it's speculation. Again, speculation has always been very prevelant on this site. If you don't like speculation then you can just leave the site altogether.

No, we cannot speak in absolutes. Yes, there are plenty of possibilities. We can only look at the data and make judgements on which seems the most likely, but unfortunately, because of some people in this thread, they don't want to see any discussion as it could potentially mean their franchise would be knocked down by a tiny bit. It's sad.

It would be nice if when interesting information like this releases, that threads could have meaningful discussions with people from all sides bringing in different ideas that we could all consider, but no...as soon as some people do bring out different ideas and explanations, they have to simotaneously resort to flaming and perpetuating this childish console war (not talking about you). Thus forming an us-against-them mentality and rendering any discussion of the subject impossible.


@Jay520 : calm down, no reason to be angry

@JayWood2010

I agree with you that the point in this thread should be elsewhere, and indeed MS are making a very general statement that is not worth being analyzed in detail (except for those who would like to seize the occasion to label Halo overtracked - that will probably remain as one of the many sterile debates @VGC)

I wonder if MS is not simply addressing retail here... I mean, a front selling game is the perfect occasion for retail to be either make huge margins or miss the opportunity for not having enough supply... and MS would here be trying to push distribution into takings risks so Halo 4 gets all the retail presence it can use.



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Jaywood2010 on 03 October 2012
BenVTrigger said:
@Jay520

Your the one who needs to grow up son I never even mentioned your name.

Im not even being defensive about Halo as I think Halo Reach is probably overtracked here.

And look whats already happening people are bringing up games like GT in this thread as I knew they would.

This thread isnt going to be about how accurate Vgchartz numbers are its going to be about who has the bigger inernet penis.

Come on Im quite easily one of the most mature members of this site. I feel zero personal involvment in anything gaming related. I work in the video games sales industry so numbers interest me. That is all

Pretty much sums it up.




       

thehusbo on 03 October 2012

great sales for halo, great sales for gran turismo. done. sorted. move on now.



sales2099 on 03 October 2012
ethomaz said:
NobleTeam360 said:
Seems like MS is either mistaken or Halo hasn't sold as much as we were lead to believe.

Well MS have other mistakes before like "66m sales".

Reach is overtracked here... it is known here but not enough to make this difference between VGC and MS.

How so? The sales have been adjusted down a few times since Reach released.

If anything its undertracked because be dont count digital sales.



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sales2099 on 03 October 2012

And shame on people for ignoring my VERY simple explanation: The guy didnt count Halo CEA sales.



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usrevenge on 03 October 2012

halo 1 AWESOME HOLY CRAP FIRST AMAZING CONSOLE SHOOTER!
halo 2 Pretty good, not as good as halo, but online is there and it wasn't terrible.
Halo 3 Forge is fun! but the game is worse then halo 2... thus worse then halo 1 =(
Halo ODST WTF THIS IS GARBAGE $40 for Boring horde knockoff and a 3 hour single player that no one cares about??
Halo wars : great, best console RTS hands down, it needed more love but it is still a good game
Halo reach: halo reach added a good game mode or two but no one cares cause the game itself wasn't good. reach needed a custom match browser to find people in progress running custom maps and game modes.
halo anniversary: oh look halo 1 with the halo reach engine no one liked.


FFS whoever makes halo now, put a custom match browser in the game, halo has some of its best moments in custom matches and it is a pain to get a full match of one.



Jaywood2010 on 03 October 2012
sales2099 said:
And shame on people for ignoring my VERY simple explanation: The guy didnt count Halo CEA sales.


I dont think anybody is ignoring you.  But I still believe we can't argue with a guy who works there compared to a website that is natoriously inaccurate.  Every game on this site is incorrect by at least a small margin.  As I said before that could add up with a franchise creating 3 million.




       

Kresnik on 03 October 2012
kowenicki said:

But there is now way it is "heavily overtracked"  despite your need for it to be.


Really, Kowenicki?  Did you really just say that? :l

On topic: Excellent sales regardless of whether it's under or overtracked on here.  Kudos2u Halo.



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Jaywood2010 on 03 October 2012
usrevenge said:
halo 1 AWESOME HOLY CRAP FIRST AMAZING CONSOLE SHOOTER!
halo 2 Pretty good, not as good as halo, but online is there and it wasn't terrible.
Halo 3 Forge is fun! but the game is worse then halo 2... thus worse then halo 1 =(
Halo ODST WTF THIS IS GARBAGE $40 for Boring horde knockoff and a 3 hour single player that no one cares about??
Halo wars : great, best console RTS hands down, it needed more love but it is still a good game
Halo reach: halo reach added a good game mode or two but no one cares cause the game itself wasn't good. reach needed a custom match browser to find people in progress running custom maps and game modes.
halo anniversary: oh look halo 1 with the halo reach engine no one liked.


FFS whoever makes halo now, put a custom match browser in the game, halo has some of its best moments in custom matches and it is a pain to get a full match of one.

Disagree.  Halo 2 In my opinion was the best, Halo 3 had the most content and was also amazing.  Halo 1 was of course great as well.  I think the original trilogy all around was amazing.  Halo ODST and Reach were good but wasnt as good as halo 1-3.   Halo Wars really is the best RTS on consoles.  I personally cant wait to see what Halo 4 can do.




       

toadslayer72 on 03 October 2012

Lol, cool thread guys. Gran Turismo in another Halo thread? No way. I'm surprised someone didn't post one of those exclusive lists yet. Either way, Halo 4 is going to stomp shit. I agree 50 mil by year's end for the franchise, huge.



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