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Protendo on 23 October 2014

I see "fire" sales coming. I think everyone who doesn't have an Xbox One shoul hold off on purchasing one until black friday. I'm telling everyone I know the same thing, but people just seem to be getting PS4 instead when I say that.

We already had rumors about extraordinary deals coming. If retailers are going to market it as $349.99 this is going to have a negative effect on future console sales unless Microsoft is preparing to permanently lower the price.



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hudsoniscool on 23 October 2014
shikamaru317 said:
VGC has global numbers up for the 1st week of October. FH2 is up to 306k after 2 weeks. NBA 2K15 debuts with 197k on XB1.

Also preorder numbers are up. For once Halo: MCC isn't massively undertrackedf, VGC has 10k preorders for that week. It still probably sold more than that considering it was in the top 12 on Amazon that week, but it's better than the 3k's and 4k's VGC was tracking previous weeks. Also, they have Sunset Overdrive getting 5k preorders, not too shabby. Recent games have been selling about 4-5 times as much first week as VGC has tracked for preorders, so that 52k preorders VGC has could potentially mean 208k-260k FW in the US.


I think halo probably did 20k because cod(x1) did 18 and halo has been doing better. I also think it's a shame that a terrible game like drive club is outselling forza. I'm hopping that sunset od does at least 250 fw.



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

TheSting on 23 October 2014

I just had the most fun racing in this game lol and I'm just getting started. I was all through fields, flying through the air, speeding and drifting like a mad man. This shit is good. Plus I have the NFL game snapped I'm having such a great time



hudsoniscool on 23 October 2014
shikamaru317 said:
hudsoniscool said:

I think halo probably did 20k because cod(x1) did 18 and halo has been doing better. I also think it's a shame that a terrible game like drive club is outselling forza. I'm hopping that sunset od does at least 250 fw.

Sounds about right to me. Also, FH2 on X1 and 360 combined sold about the same first week as Driveclub. Still kind of sucks though considering the fact that FH2 got considerably higher reviews. Driveclub got way overhyped I think, mainly due to the graphics. You'd think that by now people would be a bit more wary of games where the primary selling point is graphics, especially after most of the games that Crytek has released end up being fairly weak in areas other than graphics. 

I'm sure fh2 will do good over time. Great games usually do. I think it will outsell forza 5 on x1.



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

Welfare on 23 October 2014

Oh jeez the CoD bundle is #45 right now in the hourly charts.



Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

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TheSting on 23 October 2014

@Slade ya drivatar almost ran me off the road lol



Goatseye on 23 October 2014

I gotta ask my fellow UKaians here. Why is it that Rock from your land seem funky to me?
I didn't put much thought into it until... right now.
I just caught myself singing a Fifa 14 song by Olympic Ayres- Magic and I love it.
I'm not much of a Rock listener but I love almost every British song on Fifa series.



hudsoniscool on 23 October 2014
shikamaru317 said:
Welfare said:
Oh jeez the CoD bundle is #45 right now in the hourly charts.

Yep, now that the Sunset Overdrive bundle has sold out many people seem to be turning to the CoD bundle despite it's higher price. It'll probably sell out soon too since it's also limited production, and then the AC bundle will likely climb pretty high on the charts to take it's place.


I didn't know that the SO bundle was limited until today. It and the cod bundle will both completely out sell by mid November if not earlier. So just the assassins creed bundle for the holidays? Should be a halo bundle so disappointed. I frequent the halo waypoint forums and every day there is a thread wondering about a halo bundle. 

A halo/ fh2 bundle would be killer this holiday, hopping they get bundled with the standard x1 this holiday. 



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

Protendo on 24 October 2014

I got some more info on the Kmart deal:

In two weeks it looks like:
Xbox One Console for $349.99
$60 in points back if Xbox One is purchased with any featured games or accessories. Halo appears to be a featured item as well.

Looks like a great deal.



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justagamer25 on 24 October 2014

Sunset currently 22nd on US and 14th on UK hourly amazon charts. been climbing fairly quickly over the last couple of days