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2008ProchargedGT on 04 November 2015

What's the highest selling exclusive and the highest 3rd party game week 1. We can get an idea of the sales between those two data points



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SvennoJ on 04 November 2015

I was afraid for a while that the old MS spin was gone since Spencer took the helm. It seems they haven't lost the touch, back in full force! I guess they were just waiting for the season to start. More meaningless crazy stats incoming for BF week.



fireburn95 on 04 November 2015
poklane said:
bananaking21 said:

the highest rated Xbox One exclusive, first-person shooter game of 2015, according to Metacritic.

I dunno about how that sentence works with English grammar, but I think the comma indicates it's the highest rated Xbox One exclusive and the highest rated FPS of 2015, not the highest rated XB1 exclusive FPS of 2015.


commas aren't exclusively used as a replacement for and.

"An Xbox one exclusive first-person action rpg set in a dystopian setting"
In this sentence, commas can be used to break up the sentence so you're not reading it as one long description of something
"An Xbox one exclusive, first-person action rpg set in a dystopian setting"

Essentially that sentence can read as both ways.



Faelco on 04 November 2015
Synesthesia said:

"Halo 5: Guardians has made history as the biggest Halo launch and fastest-selling Xbox One exclusive game to-date"

The wording here is odd... Is it the biggest Halo launch on Xbox ONE or biggest in Halo franchise history as a whole?

"with more than $400 million in global sales of Halo 5: Guardians games and hardware"

What exactly is the point of being so unclear if it supposedly did so well? This just seems bizarre how hard the statement goes out of the way not to make it clear. Given how over priced the bundle was and that hardware is a very general term that goes beyond just the console. We still have zero clue on halo's sales.

No conclusions can be made at all on how well Halo did or if it performed poorly compared to its predecessors IMO. Microsoft is trying their hardest not to let us figure it out.

 

We can guess pretty easily that the software sales are not as good as the previous games, that's what the "best software + hardware" means. 

 

Awesome PR spin, almost a joy to try to analyze it ^^  (thanks Halo 5 for giving Xbox One owners a great FPS game and other people another great mystery game! :D ) 



SWORDF1SH on 04 November 2015

It might be the lowest selling Halo but the micro transactions might make it the most profitable.

But it's hard to congratulate MS with the amount of spin. Give us sale numbers! The sales can't be that bad!



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Jazz2K on 04 November 2015

Lolll this thread... this game shouldn't be praised or do any good... gotta get that pop corn gif...



fireburn95 on 04 November 2015
Kyuu said:
bananaking21 said:

the highest rated Xbox One exclusive, first-person shooter game of 2015, according to Metacritic.

 

LOL!! what a spin!! this is the ONLY FPS exclusive they have in 2015!!

 

very strong sales regardless. lets see how it performed in the USA once NPD comes. 


the highest rated Xbox One exclusive, "And" the highest rated first-person shooter game of 2015 (So far, and on any system) No spin there.


When @ Gamescom last year microsoft said

"Coming 2015, only on xbox"

',' doesn't exclusively mean and. It can also be used as a continuation of a sentence in the right context.

Otherwise it would've meant

"Coming 2015 and only on xbox"

Which implies something else. So essentially that can read as two ways, it could mean the and as you say, or it can mean, as an extension, the highest rated xbox one exclusive fp shooter.



ice on 04 November 2015

https://news.microsoft.com/2007/10/04/global-entertainment-phenomenon-halo-3-records-more-than-300-million-in-first-week-sales-worldwide/

http://majornelson.com/2012/11/12/halo-4-makes-entertainment-history-with-more-than-220-million-in-global-sales-in-the-first-24-hours/

http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/28/halo-reach-sold-350m-in-16-days/

MS has been doing this PR for a while, last time I knew those games still sold well. No units for any of those PR statements



d21lewis on 04 November 2015

Good for them. Excited to see the real numbers. Should silence everyone--both the lovers and the haters.



Faelco on 04 November 2015
iceland said:
https://news.microsoft.com/2007/10/04/global-entertainment-phenomenon-halo-3-records-more-than-300-million-in-first-week-sales-worldwide/

http://majornelson.com/2012/11/12/halo-4-makes-entertainment-history-with-more-than-220-million-in-global-sales-in-the-first-24-hours/

http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/28/halo-reach-sold-350m-in-16-days/

MS has been doing this PR for a while, last time I knew those games still sold well. No units for any of those PR statements


So... Halo 3 made 300 millions FW, and Halo 4 220M on release date. SOFTWARE. Halo 5 made 400 Software AND Hardware. And 1 $500 Bundle > 8 $60 Bundles, plus controllers, headsets and microtransactions.

 

Pretty sure Halo 5 sold less than Halo 3 and 4 now (well, the PR spin with the hardware was pretty telling already...).