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ethomaz said:
jason1637 said:

She said it will so if shes so confident that means she based it from pre orders. Either way it still doesnt add up to it selling 150k only first week. 150k retail copies but it must be above 200k if we include the bundles limited editions.

150k includes bundles.

Only not digital not bundled.

what do you mean by that



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SWORDF1SH said:
jason1637 said:
SWORDF1SH said:

You misinterpreted it. This article was released on launch day of Halo. She also said “Halo 5 will be our biggest release on Xbox One to date.” Key word there is 'will'. She is probably talking about being their biggest game with their biggest marketing push. The others have already pointed out with sources why your estimate is wrong.

She said it will so if shes so confident that means she based it from pre orders.

Ok, IF it's their biggest XB1 launch. Show me exactly how you come to your figure using the £7.7M made day 1 and bare in mind this source also theres a source saying that week 1 was 50% higher than MCC in physical sale.

"Xbox One: ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ takes the top spot and outsells the week 1 for ‘AC: Syndicate’ by 50%. This is also how much more Halo 5 sold in week 1 compared to last year’s ‘Halo: Master Chief Collection’ - up until now the only other Halo game available via retail for Xbox One owners."

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=209778&page=1

 



Well it was 5 days so its not first week. Also it still doesnt add up unless MS is spinning their pr.



jason1637 said:

Well it was 5 days so its not first week. Also it still doesnt add up unless MS is spinning their pr.

"Also it still doesnt add up unless MS is spinning their pr."

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner.

And those 5 days are week 1 numbers.



SWORDF1SH said:
jason1637 said:

Well it was 5 days so its not first week. Also it still doesnt add up unless MS is spinning their pr.

"Also it still doesnt add up unless MS is spinning their pr."

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner.

And those 5 days are week 1 numbers.


I hope we get official number this year.



jason1637 said:
binary solo said:
Sounds like 7.7 million GBP, factoring in limited/special edition sales at a higher price point, and 150K hard copy more or less confirmed for the opening weekend, means not all that many digital sales. Taking the best case scenario of every game copy being sold at 40GBP equating to 192.5K the best possible digital share is 22%. That seems to be what people think was about the digital share towards the end of last generation for games that had day 1 digital releases.

I don't know whether Halo 5 is a special case because fans want that game case proudly displayed on their shelves, or whether for consoles digital sales are staying pretty static at on average 20% of total sales.

A link to the source of the information in the OP would be good. Also does this indicate whether the 7.7 million takes account of the Halo 5 Xb one bundle? i.e. the revenue MS got over and above the base price for a Xb one? Taking account of the bundle it might add a few tens of thousands to the first full week Halo 5 install base.

Still if the official record shows Halo 5 as the lowest selling main numbered Halo in the UK that is not great news for Halo, albeit it will still sell plenty and make MS a decent swag of money.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news/a677051/halo-5-guardians-makes-more-on-day-one-than-spectre-at-the-box-office.html#~pt0VT9LwRLIGPE

That's comparing apples and oranges. Fact is more people went to see Spectre than bought Halo 5. A movie ticket is a mere fraction of the price of a video game, so comparing revenue is pointless and is merely a pissing contest. And given the revenue gap was only 1.4 million GBP it would seem that possibly 3 or 4 times as many people went to see spectra as bought Halo 5. The only time it is actually noteworthy is when Activision achieved "Biggest ever entertainment launch" with CoD:MW2. Halo has never and will never achieve that level of sales, because it's only on one platform, so comparing with movies icomes off more as grasping at anything that sounds like good news.

A game's success should only be compared to the performance of other games, and in particular other games in the same franchise. If we have it confirmed that Halo 5 is the lowest selling numbered Halo game, then that is not especially good news for the franchise or for the prospects of Xb one making significant strides in hardware sales. Halo is literally the only big gun MS has to push Hardware sales. If the game doesn;t do that then Xb one will fall further behind over the medium and long term in the hardware race.

That article also suggests digital sales contribute to the seemigly much lower sales of Halo 5 compared to Halo 3. That is true to a degree, but when you do the sums with the revenue if the max we're looking at  is 190K-200K for Halo 5, including all ways in which people can get the game, then it still fals short of Halo 3. And it still falls short of halo 4, apparently. It is possibly the first numbered Halo game (Halo CE is unknown) to sell below 200K through its opening weekend. Relative to other games Halo 5 has done very well, there's no denying it. Relative to Halo, Halo 5 has fallen a bit short. This is not a sign of a console or a game franchise that is on a re-ascendant path, which is really what Halo 5 needed to be for Xb one at this stage.



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binary solo said:
jason1637 said:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news/a677051/halo-5-guardians-makes-more-on-day-one-than-spectre-at-the-box-office.html#~pt0VT9LwRLIGPE

That's comparing apples and oranges. Fact is more people went to see Spectre than bought Halo 5. A movie ticket is a mere fraction of the price of a video game, so comparing revenue is pointless and is merely a pissing contest. And given the revenue gap was only 1.4 million GBP it would seem that possibly 3 or 4 times as many people went to see spectra as bought Halo 5. The only time it is actually noteworthy is when Activision achieved "Biggest ever entertainment launch" with CoD:MW2. Halo has never and will never achieve that level of sales, because it's only on one platform, so comparing with movies icomes off more as grasping at anything that sounds like good news.

A game's success should only be compared to the performance of other games, and in particular other games in the same franchise. If we have it confirmed that Halo 5 is the lowest selling numbered Halo game, then that is not especially good news for the franchise or for the prospects of Xb one making significant strides in hardware sales. Halo is literally the only big gun MS has to push Hardware sales. If the game doesn;t do that then Xb one will fall further behind over the medium and long term in the hardware race.

That article also suggests digital sales contribute to the seemigly much lower sales of Halo 5 compared to Halo 3. That is true to a degree, but when you do the sums with the revenue if the max we're looking at  is 190K-200K for Halo 5, including all ways in which people can get the game, then it still fals short of Halo 3. And it still falls short of halo 4, apparently. It is possibly the first numbered Halo game (Halo CE is unknown) to sell below 200K through its opening weekend. Relative to other games Halo 5 has done very well, there's no denying it. Relative to Halo, Halo 5 has fallen a bit short. This is not a sign of a console or a game franchise that is on a re-ascendant path, which is really what Halo 5 needed to be for Xb one at this stage.


Im just giving you a link that says it made 7.7 pounds day 1



jason1637 said:

what do you mean by that

Digital copies included in bundles are counted.

Just not individual digital copies.



Edit : Why oh why oh why so much spin PRESIDENT  in a statement. Just give the numbers and be done with it.



Super spin here with this statement.



jason1637 said:
SWORDF1SH said:
jason1637 said:

 

She said it will so if shes so confident that means she based it from pre orders.


No it was based on wishful thinking, dashed hopes and broken dreams. Never any foundation on reality or palpable numbers.

 

Anyway, why is Halo 5 being compared with a movie? It's not a Sony exclusive