Too many unknowns to really get any firm idea on what the deuce is really going on in terms of total sales.

Some thoughts :

Halo 5 is not a failure (duh) by any reasonable perspective. However, it may be in decline in terms of unit sales.

This PR release isn't really that different on the whole than previous first-week Halo MS PR efforts.

However, there are a few things that are odd, like :

They say Halo 5 software and hardware. What does that entail?

Definitely :

$60 Retail Game
$99 LE Game
$249 Super Mega Game
$500 LE Bundle

Possibly :

$70 Controller?
Headset?
REQ Packs?

And then you have the fact that a decent portion of the 'retail' sales could be counted as 'Digital' due to them being just codes that you have to redeem and download online (LE Bundles, etc).

Anyway, we'll know more as time goes on.

My guess : the series is in a slow decline, but still will have outstanding attach rate and a core fanbase that will still be fairly strong by the time Halo 6 comes out. People have to remember that ALL mainline Halos seem to sell in the same general range of ~10M LTD, plus or minus a few million from beginning to peak to decline. So if Halo 5 sells 7.5M LTD + or - a million or so, that's still a pretty big deal.

I don't know what kind of legs it will have though. This isn't 2007 anymore, there are FPS's coming out of our ears, and a bunch of them are about to drop that may cut H5 off at the knees in terms of attracting fans outside the core day-1 types over these holidays and beyond.

Any potential X1 FPS fan buyer on the fence certainly is not very likely to buy a $500 bundle when they could grab a $349 X1 with whatever game and snag Blops3 or Battlefront for roughly $100 cheaper.

IGN claims Halo 5 saw the Biggest launch in franchise history.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s89rZBV0zBQ

Article: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2015/11/04/halo-5-guardians-sees-biggest-launch-in-franchise-history

Awesome. Great opening!

Cant wait to see how much it boosted the Xbox One.

That's not the important question. The important question is if it did well for a Halo game.

Economically no (dlcs and LE bundles = huge revenue generation) it wasnt a flop.

Sales wise no (even if it looks like it only sold half of what older halo titles did, in the UK) it wasnt a flop either.

I'll translate kowen to You.

the forum is bad now because instead of making fun of sony fans I'm being made fun off. Ever since ps4 steam rolled x1 he have been very defensive and then ran from here. Just showing to talk good on ms finnancials or make fun of sony global loses.

- Moderated, Carl

They probably bought the Pr.

"Halo flopped! The 400 million USD just happened, because it moved much hardware"

That is probably the weirdest logic I have seen in a while.
I was one of those who thought moving hardware is a good thing. Silly me.

They are just paraphraseing the same PR text we have here.

Its again based in the 400$ million (hardware & software) sales revenue bit.

Basically xbox PR retold back to us, by IGN.

I don't normally read every posts especially if it has too many comments by the time I get into a threads.  Still I'm not sure if he meant it in a literal way but if he believed that, he is definitely  out of touch with reality and probably a bit bitter from the destiny threads.  Still, he doesn't represent the whole vgchartz community nor the sony fans as a whole in vgchartz.