The enxt halo game should release during 2018. I wouldnt worry much about that that.

It would be nearly unprecedented, and nothing short of amazing for Halo to make any kind of significant comeback (in comparison to previous franchise launches).  One of the best ways to make an attempt would be waiting 10 to 12 years for a real next gen launch, similar to what we're about to witness with battlefront 3. The problem being 12 years without a Halo for MS would be too risky. They need to start building up a new IP in the next few years here.

2.5-3.2 is not what its goign to sell. It sold 1.5 million in 5 days in the us alone withotu digital. It should eb around 2.6 million by now.

This is what I've been saying. I think the rises come from bigger games and the trust after ppl buy digitally the 1st time. Of course that's why it rises. Then the developers or whoever are offering good digital pre-order incentives as well. 

Star wars battlefront beta had 9 million players and last i checked you couldnt get that beta unless you got it digitally.

That's "okay" for Halo, I guess? Not bad, I believe. How about a worldwide prediction? Maybe 2.5m including digital?

Show me a few established big selling game series that have a current gen entry that have a higher first week than their predecessors on last gen.

Fifa? Nope, CoD? Nope, Mario Kart? Nope (MK Wii was released later in the US), Assassins Creed? Nope, Battlefield? Nope. etc.
You won't find many and the reason for that is simple. The generation is still very young or in the case of the WiiU, the userbase was never comparable. While userbase isn't everything, 50m people more can make quite a difference.

I never calculated with 30% digital sales, just saw it mentioned here and there. Then I compared x% of a high number to x% of a much lower number. Doesn't mean that I think that 30% is true.

Now, where do I discredit VGC numbers?

Error in counting method.  When one is counting how many days are left til something, they usually don't include the day they are in.  However, in this case, if we are figuring out how many days Halo has been out, Tuesday must be counted.  So, it's Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, and Sat.  5 days.  6 days if Sun is included, which I agree with you most likely is if NPD is including it in their Oct month.

Come on man, you're better than that. You can't link me to a Gaf post from a nobody and call that evidence. The Amazon information is interesting but hard to tell how significant. Still, lets say for argument's sake that H5G-D is 30%, which seems to be quite a high % and fairly rare, and possibly unprecedented for a major AAA release. It puts total US first week at just short of 2 million, if this rumour is correct, which is 20% lower than the 3 main Halo games on 360. If the digital numbers are going to totally make up the difference to past Halo games then the digital % needs to be 60% of Physical. That is massive and I doubt the digital % is over 50%.  So relative to past Halo games Halo 5 is going to be down by a reasonable margin even with digital sales factored in.

What does this tell us? It tells us Halo 5 sold well, but at least with Halo 5 it isn't the driving force it used to be. It also suggests MS needs to start thinking about something else as a premier franchise. Halo can continue to be produced but if they want 1st party games to be part of making substantial hardware gains they need a new powerhouse franchise as well as putting out regular smaller impact games that have a cumulative effect.

Yep and I believe we'll have abnormal numbers from huge released games. I really think Halo sold a lot digitally.