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roborad on 17 November 2014
hudsoniscool said:
So probably 150k in the uk. 750 k in NA. 100k rest of the world.
About 1 million probably retail for mcc. If that what it comes to that's pretty good for fw. Probably another 200-300k digital. So halo mcc probably 1.2-1.3 million versus cea that did less than 750k. I guessed it would do 1.4m so that's only slightly less. That's pretty good. Especially considering the legs mcc will have.

The big number to look at guys since most of what I said was my ill advised guesses is halo cea uk numbers. We have it at 54k. Mcc is tracking at 80something- 160k so that's pretty impressive. To expect it to more that triple cea is kind of crazy.

i agree, very good numbers, especially considering the userbase of the x360 vs the x1.  



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crissindahouse on 17 November 2014
shikamaru317 said:

Jeeze, Microsoft really needs to drop the price of Xbox One in Europe. Sony has a GTA V and Far Cry 4 bundles for 399 euros, the same price as Microsoft's bundles. Not only is Xbox One less powerful than PS4, but Europe has always been a Sony biased region, there's no good reason for Xbox One to cost any more than 350 euros, and preferably it should be 299 euros.

Yeah people can say as much as they want that Sony is dominating Europe because people love PLaystation here (which is true) but MS could still do much better if they wouldn't act so stupid here. I mean, every freaking game from Sony has own TV commercials (SingStar right now as example), Sony works together with big stores to implement Playstation in their commercials "buy your holiday gifts in our store, as example a wonderful PS4" or "get a PS4 and Maxdome (like Netflix) and blablabla...

MS does nothing like that, no commercials for any exclusive (what the fuck do they think differentiates Xbox from PS for people?), no good collaboration with other companies to share ads and nothing.

And then the prices, official price in USA = $349 and in Europe 399€, what the fuck are they smoking?

I guess it's simply true what people say, MS doesn't care about anyting except UK and Noth America if it comes to XBox. They act as if they would care to get also enough support from developers of these countries but if they would really care they would try more as the necessary. Sucks if you are interested in Xbox but well, can't do more than complaining all the time about that and writing guys like Spencer many tweets about the problem here.



smroadkill15 on 17 November 2014

Man, 343 really screwed up the launch of MCC. Sitting at 87 now instead of 90+ like it should. My prediction went completely down the toilet. Halo 4 had a buggy launch as well. For their sake Halo 5 better run smooth at launch.



roborad on 17 November 2014

the AW x1 bundle is out of stock at bestbuy again. Needs restocking in so many retailers.



roborad on 17 November 2014
smroadkill15 said:
Man, 343 really screwed up the launch of MCC. Sitting at 87 now instead of 90+ like it should. My prediction went completely down the toilet. Halo 4 had a buggy launch as well. For their sake Halo 5 better run smooth at launch.


I agree.

Hopefully, holding 2 betas for Halo 5 will remedy any potential launch issues.  But with Halo MCC, it seems as if they didn't test the thing at all. 



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hudsoniscool on 17 November 2014
smroadkill15 said:
Man, 343 really screwed up the launch of MCC. Sitting at 87 now instead of 90+ like it should. My prediction went completely down the toilet. Halo 4 had a buggy launch as well. For their sake Halo 5 better run smooth at launch.


I know they did, but when 5-6 different studios work on a game problems happen. I knew it would but I disnt think it would be as bad as it is. 87 or a 90 either way it's a crime when u compare it to gta5 and last of us. 



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.

Wright on 17 November 2014
kowenicki said:


It is odd.  I picked up GTAV and sold it after playing it for 20 mins or so because I knew it would hit on ONE. 

Now I feel compelled to buy it even thought I know it isn't all that from what little I played previously  I dont really understand why GTA scores so highly either.  

I mean, its production values are sky high, the voice acting is always very good... but the gameplay isnt all that really for me.


Maybe because GTA is the kind of game that resonates through the gaming community. Even if scores are inflated, they truly reflect upon the feedback given by the gamers.

 

It's certainly not for some people, but those are the big minority. For me, no GTA has been able to be as fun as entertaining as Vice City was, but at least I'm glad that Rockstar is still making their fans happy. I'm more interested in their other projects, like Red Dead Redemption or Bully.



crissindahouse on 17 November 2014
shikamaru317 said:
smroadkill15 said:
Man, 343 really screwed up the launch of MCC. Sitting at 87 now instead of 90+ like it should. My prediction went completely down the toilet. Halo 4 had a buggy launch as well. For their sake Halo 5 better run smooth at launch.

It should. The reason that Halo 4 and Halo:MCC had launch issues is because there was no beta test for either, no way to stress test the servers ahead of release to prepare them for the heavy traffic of hundreds of thousands of players trying to get matched up all at once. Halo 5 is not only going to have 1 beta, but 343 has also recently been hinting that there'll be a 2nd, open beta sometime next year, and open betas are perfect for stress testing servers.

I just hope the beta won't run so bad that people will think Halo 5 will be also horrible at release so that they won't buy Halo 5 lol (it's not as if everyone understands that a beta is obviously also to fix stuff like that for the final release)



hudsoniscool on 17 November 2014
shikamaru317 said:
smroadkill15 said:
Man, 343 really screwed up the launch of MCC. Sitting at 87 now instead of 90+ like it should. My prediction went completely down the toilet. Halo 4 had a buggy launch as well. For their sake Halo 5 better run smooth at launch.

It should. The reason that Halo 4 and Halo:MCC had launch issues is because there was no beta test for either, no way to stress test the servers ahead of release to prepare them for the heavy traffic of hundreds of thousands of players trying to get matched up all at once. Halo 5 is not only going to have 1 beta, but 343 has also recently been hinting that there'll be a 2nd, open beta sometime next year, and open betas are perfect for stress testing servers.

I just think halo 5 is gunna be huge. Probably 10-15 maps designed for 8 players or less. Another 5 for big team battle. And I get the feeling(from various quotes) that whatever else they got for mp it's gunna be big. Either an evolution of spartan ops or something else(possibly a large scale class based mp ala battlefield)

 

im so glad we got mcc this year instead of them rushing halo 5, and I think it will pay off.

 



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.

roborad on 17 November 2014
hudsoniscool said:
shikamaru317 said:
smroadkill15 said:
Man, 343 really screwed up the launch of MCC. Sitting at 87 now instead of 90+ like it should. My prediction went completely down the toilet. Halo 4 had a buggy launch as well. For their sake Halo 5 better run smooth at launch.

It should. The reason that Halo 4 and Halo:MCC had launch issues is because there was no beta test for either, no way to stress test the servers ahead of release to prepare them for the heavy traffic of hundreds of thousands of players trying to get matched up all at once. Halo 5 is not only going to have 1 beta, but 343 has also recently been hinting that there'll be a 2nd, open beta sometime next year, and open betas are perfect for stress testing servers.

I just think halo 5 is gunna be huge. Probably 10-15 maps designed for 8 players or less. Another 5 for big team battle. And I get the feeling(from various quotes) that whatever else they got for mp it's gunna be big. Either an evolution of spartan ops or something else(possibly a large scale class based mp ala battlefield)

 

im so glad we got mcc this year instead of them rushing halo 5, and I think it will pay off.

 

Personally, I do not want another spartan ops (laggggggg and got repetitive).

I do want them to overhaul firefight though and focus on that for Halo 5.