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

VGKing on 03 January 2013

Shooters sell more than Racers? Who knew?



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thehusbo on 03 January 2013

Both have sold great and will continue to do so. They're most likely going to end up over 10million which is an amazing achievement. I don't understand why people in this thread need to discredit the other game and play down its sales.



bananaking21 on 03 January 2013
kowenicki said:
bananaking21 said:
kowenicki said:


But it is 0.6m, you just said so.  Please dont treat games shipments like hardware shipments.  They dont press a few thousand then a few thousand more to order.  They ship large quantities for extended periods of sales.

and who said anything about shelves and ships.  If PD ships to SCEA or SCEE for future bundles etc they are still shipped as far as PD are concerned.

How many Halo games do you think have been shipped? 9m?  I'd say yes, about that.

wake up and stop living in denial, GT5 is undertracked, you dont want to believe that fine but dont go around claiming it isnt when we have offical numbers. in no logical way would PD ship about 1.3 million while entering the games third year. its as simple as that

so what has it shipped by end of 2012 then?  and what has it sold?

just a near guess will do.

after all it had shipped 9.19m by september to meed immediate demand.  imagine how many it must have by now... all those xmas sales and sales since september.

be brave, put your money where you mouth is.

people get so sensitive about GT5 threads dont they.

I expect numbers from you.


so this somehow went from a logical post about how GT5 is in fact undertracked to me guessing GT5 numbers and be "brave". a sad and obvious tactic indeed. my "guess" has nothing to do with it. and in what post have i talked about senstivity and emotion rather than simple logic? you want numbers? wait till PD updates them, as they are the offical are real numbers, not vgchartz who by the way, tell you it is estimates and can be wrong. again your tactic to try to change the discussion from logic and facts to my personal opinion is clear and sad to be honest.

and by the way who the hell cares what you expect and who you consider to be brave? haha.... sad indeed :)



bananaking21 on 03 January 2013
thehusbo said:
Both have sold great and will continue to do so. They're most likely going to end up over 10million which is an amazing achievement. I don't understand why people in this thread need to discredit the other game and play down its sales.


apperantly thats enough for some people. dont ask me why though... i have no freaking idea



bananaking21 on 03 January 2013
kowenicki said:
Carl2291 said:
kowenicki said:


But it is 0.6m, you just said so.  Please dont treat games shipments like hardware shipments.  They dont press a few thousand then a few thousand more to order.  They ship large quantities for extended periods of sales.

and who said anything about shelves and ships.  If PD ships to SCEA or SCEE for future bundles etc they are still shipped as far as PD are concerned.

How many Halo games do you think have been shipped? 9m?  I'd say yes, about that.

It would be 600,000 units of GT5 still yet to be sold from September. Those 600,000 probably wont be done by VGC until say, February? Are you saying that PD shipped stock for ~5 Months?

Its pretty obvious that its undertracked.

1.3 Million is too much, no matter what you say. It wasnt selling outstandingly when the numbers were announced and its nowhere near selling out said September shipment. Nothing will change my mind on this.

Halo 4? No idea. What numbers have Microsoft or 343i released?.

they dont release numbers and you know it.

Go look at the shipment history of GT5 and learn a little.

By Dec 2010 6m

By Sep 2011 7.3m

By Dec 2011 7.4m (100k extra)

By Sept 2012 9.1m

Bt Dec 2012 9.1m I reckon.... zero extra shipped.

Its pretty obvious they ship in large quantities.

It may well be the final shipment for some considerable time for all we know.

ALL I AM SAYING is shipment data alone does not tell us confident sell through numbers for software.

You can currently offer me nothing more than this.

 

 

so we go by your assumptions now? cool 

"ALL I AM SAYING is shipment data alone does not tell us confident sell through numbers for software."

it pretty much does, mostly in this  case to, as they wouldnt ship if there was not any demand and people werent buying it. simple logic. 



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green_sky on 03 January 2013

Give it up guys. This game destroys both. That attach rate!



perpride on 03 January 2013

I think FPS's are generally better selling games? I could be wrong, but Halo is a beast of a franchise no denying that.



biggamejames79 on 03 January 2013

Wow Halo being the sales beast AGAIN for the 17th time! And it's still full price right now, maybe down to $50 some places because of Christmas sales, I bet the legs will be long once it's starts dropping in price after a year.



Jay520 on 03 January 2013

I always expected Halo 4 to have a stronger launch. But I'll be more impressed if it surpasses GT5"s lifetime sales, which I don't see happening.



YukanaSenix on 03 January 2013

Such a hard achievement.

A FPS selling good in this Gen on a console that is mainly popular for MP FPS.
A console that would have died long ago without CoD and of course Halo.

FPS sold never stronger than it did in this Gen especially on a console made for them.

If Racing would be that popular in the USA like FPS are GT5 would have sold 5-10 million more units.
But as you can see - Even the own racing franchise Forza is left to die(sales went down a lot after Forza3) even if it got insanely good review scores.

The Numbers of GT5 are far more impressive cause it shows how good a non FPS still can do thanks to a open minded community and mainly Europe.