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Forums - Sales - Halo 4 sells more in 7 weeks than GT:5 sold in its first year

JayWood2010 said:
Dallinor said:

I'd imagine a combination of the two is probably the best for most titles. Simply having the game sell 90% of it's total in one week puts money in the bank, but leaves little sustained income. If the game is big enough though, as is the case here with both titles, that of course doesn't matter really as the inital return will cover everything.

Disregarding profits and business etc. It's far more fun watching games with great legs leg it over milestones.

Still don't see where people are getting that Halo doesn't have legs but the reason for front loaded preferred games for companies is because the majority of the sells money is coming from full retail price instead of bargain bin price.

Oh yeah, I gather that.  

Just in terms of legs vs frontloaded it would depend on the title. If a game covers it's costs with it's initial weeks sales that's fantastic and ideal. If it has legs then it's a bonus. Some games though are frontloaded and don't have sustained legs, they literally fall off the charts. That's not what a publisher wants, they want to keep people interested and sometimes advertise a game later on to spur up increased interest and encourage legs.

In this case, Halo sells more first week and has strong legs too so that's the better scenario in compariosn to how GT sells. 



 

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MB1025 said:
Be damn sure if GT 5 was ahead of Halo 4 it would all of a sudden be OK to compare the two.


truth be told



Stupid title as usual, but great achievement by Halo 4. 39.99 should be the new price of these games, it works-



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psrock said:
Stupid title as usual, but great achievement by Halo 4. 39.99 should be the new price of these games, it works-


Why's the title stupid? It's informative.



man-bear-pig said:
psrock said:
Stupid title as usual, but great achievement by Halo 4. 39.99 should be the new price of these games, it works-


Why's the title stupid? It's informative.


Your thread titles are nonsense and only created to have flame worthy conversation. Why cant you celabrate Halo 4 great acheivement without baiting. A thread that should about Halo 4 and you disscussing GT5? Why 



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kowenicki said:
psrock said:
Stupid title as usual, but great achievement by Halo 4. 39.99 should be the new price of these games, it works-


I think 19.99 works better... look at GT legs.

Why not, it works......more games will be sold. 



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Yeah because xbox 360 mainly caters to shooter nuts and has less exclusives than what's on ps3. And with fewer exclusives, microsoft loves marketing the shit out of halo,. There is more diversity on ps3 and the fan base is mixed, not shooter orientated. Why don't you compare gt5 to forza3 or 4.



^because they're the most popular 1st party franchise on their respective platforms. This makes it more interesting, it's almost if you're upset about the results. :)



Chunli said:
It's really nice to see both games do so well. Halo 4 especially. Real commendable effort put in by 343 industries and Microsoft.

But I really don't feel the need to act like a bully and rub salt in people's wounds. I'm rather new to this forum but there's this particular member, whenever I read his posts I can't help but picture a bully. A very big bully. And he is in this thread. Not going to name him.

The way people feel the need to bully others with words and talk down to them just because they aren't on the same page is really quite sad. We should be congratulating both Sony and Microsoft for doing so well and producing such wonderful games for us to play.

best post i've read for the new year so far

anyway its great to see halo 4 reach this milestone, from what i've seen its a great game



bonkers555 said:
I'm kinda confuse here. I always thought company want a game to be front loaded to make as much profit as possible. How can anyone in their straight mind believe that Legs is better then Front Loaded?


who said that legs is more profitable?