Halo 5: Guardians sells more than $400 million (games and hardware)

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thx1139 on 04 November 2015

Wow what a thread. I cant believe how much people believe that the $400M was made up massively of microtransactions and controllers. Seriously I can see microtransactions adding $ in the long term, but not the first week. There are 4 of us playing in Halo 5 in my family and we have spent exactly $0.00 on microtransactions.

As for digital download I expect that this is the highest percentage game ever for digital download. MS has had advertisements up on the Xbox One for months about pre-ordering the digital version from your couch. We certainly did that and I don't know anyone who didn't purchase digitally. To have it available at midnight launch without a trip to a store. Certainly a huge amount of day 1 sales were digital.

Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

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Barozi on 04 November 2015

whatever the exact numbers are, it's still a lot.

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LurkerJ said:

GamechaserBE said:

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Ethomaz even in this thread:

Halo 5 did flopped big now after these PR.

Even more than we expected.

400 million in revenue is a lot, even if it is a lot of bundles/or controllers/micro transactions, it shows that people spend a lot of money for Halo.

I mean the fact that you had to pick ethomaz as an example. The guy is constantly banned for running around the forums with his anti-MS agenda.

There are a lot of valid points raised in this thread alone, Halo 5 is a massive success. But we are used to talking about a single metric here on vgc, how many units has Halo 5 sold? Is it really that annoying for you when people bring up the fact that Halo 5 will probably sell less than any other mainline Halo game?

GT6 has been dragged to hell and back because of the same exact reason.

What is the point in adding other names if in this thread alone you can find someone who said it?

I don't really care about the units sold*. It is just weird to see people go as 'but because of hardware the units sold must not be great' or microtransactions make it go to 400 million....in the end 400 million is good/great =p.

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plip.plop on 04 November 2015

I know everyone wants to know how many units it sold. (me too) But to discount all revenue sources, specifically microtransactions, comes off as short sighted.

Wasn't there a post recently where EA stated that it makes more money off DLC for their games, than the actual games sales numbers.

Microtransactions, and DLC will start to become a more relevant number to the overall sales of a game, as these also tend to help give a game legs.

Also, Didn't the Taken King kill it digitally on the Sony storefront? Also explains it's lower than expected NPD numbers.

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riecsou on 04 November 2015

kowenicki said:

LurkerJ said:

Leaving VGC because of the down-players? No one would've never joined if that was the case. This place has been the same since I stumbled across it forever ago. People come and go, it's just how things go. Some find it easier to leave when their fave system isn't doing so well though

nobody said people left due to downplaying. To deny this forum's quality has fallen dramatically over the last 6 years is amusing.

Wait, what??? Over the last 6 years, so you are saying that the quality of this forum started to fall right after the $300 PS3 Slim?? Righr when PS3 started thier come back???