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Normchacho on 04 November 2015
Sharpryno said:
JRPGfan said:

I have 6 friends who all bought digitally so we could all play at exactly 11pm the night before release.  The trend will only grow and I bet it was massive for Halo because of that incentive. 


That's it! Stop the presses! Spread the word that SIX(!!!!!) of Sharprynos friends bought Halo 5 digitally! That means that AT LEAST 80% of Halo 5 sales are digital, and it's the best selling Halo of all time.

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WC4Life on 04 November 2015

These new "metrics" provided by publishers all around are turning sales talk into worthless bullshit. Without clear shipped/sold through numbers or 1:1 revenue comparison, everything becomes so fuckin blurred to "casuals" when each side skewes the results into their favor. There is not any kind of consensus anymore. I feel bad for all the "good" people, those who put their mind into analyzing objectively using their experience and past knowledge, to get buried by masses of skewed bullshit.



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Farsala on 04 November 2015

So according to MS Halo 5 is more successful then Halo 3.

Good to know, will be sure to tell everyone that. Halo 3 with a 50%-60% attach rate is less successful then Halo 5.



TheBlackNaruto on 04 November 2015
kowenicki said:
What an excellent example of why so many people abandoned these forums.

Bitterness on another level in here.

Funny as fuck.

Excellent result. The fact is Halo 5 was directly involved in generating almost half a billion dollars of revenue in 1 week for Microsoft. Down playing that is borderline insane.


I honestly wish you would just start back posting more! You always had a lot of well informed post and information! that's what we need back!



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Insidb on 04 November 2015
kowenicki said:
What an excellent example of why so many people abandoned these forums.

Bitterness on another level in here.

Funny as fuck.

Excellent result. The fact is Halo 5 was directly involved in generating almost half a billion dollars of revenue in 1 week for Microsoft. Down playing that is borderline insane.

I think people are letting fanboyism (both sides) cloud the reality of this situation for MS: they care more about their investors than they do about their popularity or threads on VGC. If their investors seem $400M generated in one week, they give MS a big, fat thumbs up. People then buy their stock (because most of their investors are shockingly NOT fanboys), and their valuation goes up. That's all they really care about, and this is a good way to accomplish that goal.



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DonFerrari on 04 November 2015

What a load of spin and no break down



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pitzy272 on 04 November 2015
bananaking21 said:
i guess we will have to wait for NPD to get a clear number of how this game actually sold. we know it did 150k in the UK first week, guess NPD will tell us most of what we need to know, since the USA and UK will be by far the two biggest markets for this game.


People keep mentioning npd, but npd data doesn't always give specific numbers for software, right??



hudsoniscool on 04 November 2015
kowenicki said:
What an excellent example of why so many people abandoned these forums.

Bitterness on another level in here.

Funny as fuck.

Excellent result. The fact is Halo 5 was directly involved in generating almost half a billion dollars of revenue in 1 week for Microsoft. Down playing that is borderline insane.


Agreed 



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.

method114 on 04 November 2015
Insidb said:
kowenicki said:
What an excellent example of why so many people abandoned these forums.

Bitterness on another level in here.

Funny as fuck.

Excellent result. The fact is Halo 5 was directly involved in generating almost half a billion dollars of revenue in 1 week for Microsoft. Down playing that is borderline insane.

I think people are letting fanboyism (both sides) cloud the reality of this situation for MS: they care more about their investors than they do about their popularity or threads on VGC. If their investors seem $400M generated in one week, they give MS a big, fat thumbs up. People then buy their stock (because most of their investors are shockingly NOT fanboys), and their valuation goes up. That's all they really care about, and this is a good way to accomplish that goal.

I don't really think it works that way. If I had a company that generated 400 million dollars of revenue but it took us 3 billion dollars to do it that's not a healthy company to be investing in. I'm not saying this is the case for Microsoft.



hudsoniscool on 04 November 2015

The only thing usable for software sales is the attach ratio bit. By my reckoning the highest attach ratio at launch for a first party game on X11 is forza 5. 315k on 1.1 million consoles. That's a 28.5 attach ratio. A 28.5% attach ratio on 14.6 million would put halo 5 at 4.15 million copies. This is all going off vg charts but this seams a little high to me. My guess was 3 million including digital week 1.



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.