Locked: Halo mainly sells through mass bundling and price cuts

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Mr Puggsly on 08 January 2013

Wander_ said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Wander_ said:

Barozi said:

walsufnir said:

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

That doesn't even include the $60m development costs and the marketing budget which adds a few $10.000.000s as well.

So ~$160m profits for Sony from GT5 (without DLC and Prologue).

How much did Microsoft spend developing Halo 4 considering it is the most expensive Micrsoft game ever made how much did they spend on marketing it $40M ??

At the end they made the same profit Sony made with GT5 or maybe less.

Isn't GT5 the most expensive game Sony made? I'm sure they also gotta pay licensing fees, because without those their game wouldn't sell shit.

You should also consider Halo 4 sold more units at full price. Its also a reason millions of people pay for Xbox LIve.

I'm making a comeback just to tell you that GT5 sold 2.3m FIRST WEEK!! and 5.5+ in under 3 months at full price and on its launch week it boosted the ps3 sales to 750k. Its also a reason millions of people signed up for PSN to download DLC's. Now i am serously out for good don't try to bring me back to this thread agian.

Haha! That's still significantly less impressive than what Halo 4 has done.

You also can't prove millions of people signed up for PSN to download DLC. Nor does that compare to millions of people paying for Gold Live subscriptions and downloading Halo DLC.

Halo Reach was also more successful than Gran Turismo 5. Halo is a beast and Sony has no IP as successful. Don't bother comparing.

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mrstickball on 08 January 2013

Its amazing that a game that has "Charts" in the name would never, ever be utilized by the posters to back up statements.

Very funny, OP. Why not do an analysis on launch sales vs. sales during price drops and the like? Is that too much to ask for? An actual discussion instead of fanboy/trolling posts?

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SunofKratos on 08 January 2013

But i have thought only sony bundles there games.Strange that other comopanys do that too.

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BenVTrigger on 08 January 2013

Ive seen a LOT of ridiculous threads on VGchartz in my years here.

And this may be one of the worst Ive ever seen. There is litteraly nothing right about the OP.

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Jaywood2010 on 08 January 2013

Surprised this isn't locked as it seems to be trolling but hey whatever.

Halo 4 has only sold 7m without any help but hey ok. Oh wait it had a limited edition halo 4 bundle that was $400. hmmmm.

This thread is ridiculous. listen. Halo, Forza, Uncharted, Gran Turismo, and whetever other game you want to throw in their has deserved the sells they have gotten. Why? Because they are prime examples of the best games this generation. So please shutup about bundles. All 1st party games get bundles eventually. Halo 4 hasnt yet but yes it will get bundled eventually and I welcome that.

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Lostplanet22 on 08 January 2013

KylieDog said:

mrstickball said:
Its amazing that a game that has "Charts" in the name would never, ever be utilized by the posters to back up statements.

Very funny, OP. Why not do an analysis on launch sales vs. sales during price drops and the like? Is that too much to ask for? An actual discussion instead of fanboy/trolling posts?

I used sales data in the OP, perhaps you should spend more time reading instead of flaming people.

You should have also used mine :).

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Stefl1504 on 08 January 2013

Might get a XBOX360 + Halo 4 bundle, since I heard that Halo 4 is nearly as good as 2 is... and then get Crackdown, ... and maybe some of these exclusive RPGs I am missing on... (and Idolm@ster 1... ;P)