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crissindahouse on 08 January 2013
Wander_ said:
crissindahouse said:
KylieDog said:

Halo 4 bundles are everywhere, they not limited in scope.

...and what about ODST, expansion pack spin-off that just used Halo 3 MP, yet a full fledged remake is meant to be the bad example?

i bought odst because it was a new game or expanison if you want to call it like that (yes with old mp) and i didn't buy anniversary because it was a remake. there you got one sale^^

And your point is ??

that people rather buy something new as something they already played just with new graphics and few other stuff. that's why odst sold more as anniversary edition. pretty simple.



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sales2099 on 08 January 2013
KylieDog said:
sales2099 said:

Halo 4 bundles are in quantity, but doesnt mean theres millions of them. Hundreds of thousands sure, but that isnt much when the game is at 7.4 million. Get it?

..."and price cuts"

Yes, games get price cuts and promotions as time goes by. Who would have thought capitalism works like this?!?! Such a crazy thought....the idea of markets creating deals for the consumer. *Mind blown* 

AGAIN Again, since you didn't address it. "The main issue is you using a 10 year old remakes sales and comparing that to a mainline/heavily marketed Halo release.That by far makes this entire argument invalid."



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

man-bear-pig on 08 January 2013

This is one of the worst threads I've ever seen.



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

Barozi on 08 January 2013
Wander_ said:
crissindahouse said:

@wander

would be nice if you would use the tools to show how much the sales of halo games increased when they got the bundles you posted. i wonder if all those bundles together sold even 1m or more like 500k.


i dont care if Halo get's bundled or not. I just get pissed off when i see Gran Turismo and  Uncharted get raped for getting bundled after they made a huge profit.

GT5 alone probably made sony 500m$ not counting DLC.

nice guessing but wrong.

If sold at full price, Sony gets about $300m
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/02/anatomy-of-a-60-dollar-video-game.html

Price drop was in October 2011: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/05/gran-turismo-5-officially-getting-update-dlc-and-a-price-drop/

Another price cut for the XL edition in 2012: http://www.gtplanet.net/gran-turismo-5-xl-edition-gets-price-reduction-now-19-99/

Total: ~$260m

Even with  DLC it won't touch $500m.



Barozi on 08 January 2013
man-bear-pig said:
This is one of the worst threads I've ever seen.

I was about to post the same.

It must be a parody thread, right ?



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Wander_ on 08 January 2013
Barozi said:
Wander_ said:
crissindahouse said:

@wander

would be nice if you would use the tools to show how much the sales of halo games increased when they got the bundles you posted. i wonder if all those bundles together sold even 1m or more like 500k.


i dont care if Halo get's bundled or not. I just get pissed off when i see Gran Turismo and  Uncharted get raped for getting bundled after they made a huge profit.

GT5 alone probably made sony 500m$ not counting DLC.

nice guessing but wrong.

If sold at full price, Sony gets about $300m
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/02/anatomy-of-a-60-dollar-video-game.html

Price drop was in October 2011: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/05/gran-turismo-5-officially-getting-update-dlc-and-a-price-drop/

Another price cut for the XL edition in 2012: http://www.gtplanet.net/gran-turismo-5-xl-edition-gets-price-reduction-now-19-99/

Total: ~$260m

Even with  DLC it won't touch $500m.

if thats true than Sony made a $200m profit off of only one game plus the DLC's are still going strong.............You forgot to add GT5P so that makes it at a $300m+ profit even more AWESOME.



walsufnir on 08 January 2013
Wander_ said:
Barozi said:
Wander_ said:
crissindahouse said:

@wander

would be nice if you would use the tools to show how much the sales of halo games increased when they got the bundles you posted. i wonder if all those bundles together sold even 1m or more like 500k.


i dont care if Halo get's bundled or not. I just get pissed off when i see Gran Turismo and  Uncharted get raped for getting bundled after they made a huge profit.

GT5 alone probably made sony 500m$ not counting DLC.

nice guessing but wrong.

If sold at full price, Sony gets about $300m
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/02/anatomy-of-a-60-dollar-video-game.html

Price drop was in October 2011: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/05/gran-turismo-5-officially-getting-update-dlc-and-a-price-drop/

Another price cut for the XL edition in 2012: http://www.gtplanet.net/gran-turismo-5-xl-edition-gets-price-reduction-now-19-99/

Total: ~$260m

Even with  DLC it won't touch $500m.

if thats true than Sony made a $200m profit off of only one game plus the DLC's are still going strong.............You forgot to add GT5P so that makes it at a $300m profit even more AWESOME.

so you get your post *easily* adjusted down by about a half? wow, that really is AWESOME!
btw, you said "GT5 alone" not barozi.



crissindahouse on 08 January 2013
KylieDog said:
sales2099 said:

Halo 4 bundles are in quantity, but doesnt mean theres millions of them. Hundreds of thousands sure, but that isnt much when the game is at 7.4 million. Get it?

..."and price cuts"

all you say has one big flaw, you confuse "it sold a lot when it was reduced" with "it sold all those units because it was reduced"

see, yes halo 4 sold probably a lot for the reduced price as example in usa, but please check the overall halo 4 sales before reduction, then check how much it sold on a weekly basis, compare it with the sales halo 4 had with reduction, think about a holiday boost it would have gotton even without reduction and try to get an idea how much it sold only because of the reduced price.

i am sure it didn't sell more as let's say 250k in usa just because of the reduction, everything else would have been also a sale without it.

but you use the anniversary edition to have a proof, common...



crissindahouse on 08 January 2013
Wander_ said:
 

if thats true than Sony made a $200m profit off of only one game plus the DLC's are still going strong.............You forgot to add GT5P so that makes it at a $300m+ profit even more AWESOME.

revenue, not profit. or did you forget 150+ people working 6 years or so on it, licenses for the tracks and cars and the advertisement? (obviously the same problem for every game)



maximrace on 08 January 2013

Threads like this shouldn't exist.