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Forums - Sales - UK: Halo 5 is the Lowest Selling Mainline Game in Franchise History

Snoopy on 03 November 2015
pbroy said:
Day One digital, because of pre-loading. We all know how horrendous it is installing Xbone games. I'm sure many people pre-loaded a week ahead to bypass this poor design. 😉 It's all part of M$es plan towards an all digital future, making disc installs unbearable. 😆


This. People forget that a lot of people buy games digitally this generation compare to any other gen. Preloading is really awesome. Besides, thats how much destiny sold first week as well and it did great. Another great system seller for xbox one.



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DonFerrari on 03 November 2015

That was expected



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Insidb on 03 November 2015

I'd been predicting an outcome like this on here, for some time now. In my analyses, I hadn't even considered the competition (FO4/D:TTK/BO/BF/SW/etc.), which was a massive oversight. All things considered, this game has yet to qualify as a flop and may yet sell well LTD.



Insidb on 03 November 2015
Snoopy said:
pbroy said:
Day One digital, because of pre-loading. We all know how horrendous it is installing Xbone games. I'm sure many people pre-loaded a week ahead to bypass this poor design. 😉 It's all part of M$es plan towards an all digital future, making disc installs unbearable. 😆


This. People forget that a lot of people buy games digitally this generation compare to any other gen. Preloading is really awesome. Besides, thats how much destiny sold first week as well and it did great. Another great system seller for xbox one.

I don't think this will be a significant factor, as 52% of ALL game purchases are digital and that 52% includes subscriptions, DLCs, mobile games, and social network games. Basically, that means the mobile gaming market is a signifcant portion of that 52%, and the console market is still catching up and takes up a signifcant portion of the remaining 48%. It would be very nice, however, to have companies reporting their digital sales.



Zoombael on 03 November 2015

It fizzles alright.

Digital sales are not as predominant on consoles as on PC. Even put at 30% it still would be less successful.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1041340



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Nate4Drake on 03 November 2015

Halo5 has also the worst metacritic of all main Halo : The franchise is going down and down.


Halo: Combat Evolved = 97, Halo2 = 95, Halo3 = 94, Halo Reach = 91, Halo4 = 87, Halo5 = 85.



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Insidb on 03 November 2015
Nate4Drake said:

Halo5 has also the worst metacritic of all main Halo : The franchise is going down and down.


Halo: Combat Evolved = 97, Halo2 = 95, Halo3 = 94, Halo Reach = 91, Halo4 = 87, Halo5 = 85.

Let's be fair: I'm sure that H5 is suffering from some The Order: 1886 metacritic fanboy karma.



ohmylanta1003 on 03 November 2015
Nate4Drake said:

Halo5 has also the worst metacritic of all main Halo : The franchise is going down and down.


Halo: Combat Evolved = 97, Halo2 = 95, Halo3 = 94, Halo Reach = 91, Halo4 = 87, Halo5 = 85.


Most metacritic scores this gen have been lower. It's not because the games are getting worse. Reviewers are just more critical and there are more in number.



I bet the Wii U would sell more than 15M LTD by the end of 2015. He bet it would sell less. I lost.

Mr Puggsly on 03 November 2015

I blame digital, UK is going digital!

Or maybe the series has declined, it happens. I was thinking this release might do 7-8 million.



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Puppyroach on 03 November 2015

How do you know it's the lowest selling game if you don't know first weeks sales of CE? Just asking, also digital can't be included but its highly relevant of course.