Because 360 didn't fire the chart until 2nd half of the gen when xb360 slim with kinect launched, also was much cheaper than ps3 most of the gen.  Also with the 1 year advantage over ps3, it manage to have a good install base outside US and UK unlike xb1.  In other words, without a kinect this time around, no 1 year advantage, no price advantage and struggling to sell outside US and Uk, xb1 has no chance of keeping that pace the whole gen.

The 1.5 was only tracked from tue oc 27th-sat oct 31st.

1. That's 5 days not 4
2 99% of games launch on a Tuesday and have 6 days of tracking first week
3 This equals 1 day missing
4 Can you confirm that it's tracking for October to the 31st or do we count the overspill of the whole week into the next month like NPD would do or any tracking data tracking service.

Every Halo has an audience. I can pop in any Halo game on 360 and find thousand of playing at any moment. Even if you dont like 4 or 5, many  will do so for years.

Personally, I think Halo 4 is the best. But I have fun playing certain modes on all of them. I'm playing 5, but I've also been spending time with Reach.

Edit: Now that I think about it, you're probably focusing on campaigns while I'm discussing multiplayer. Halo 4 and 5 have good campaigns. Arguably better pacing and definitely better story telling and Bungie's trilogy. I really liked Reach's campaign, probably my favorite from Bungie.

Thank for this and yes I would agree - I had not taken into consideration all these factors. Great response and well thought out.

Seems like an overall succesful launch of Halo 5. Hopefully MS in the very near future can establish another IP or two with staying power. It would go a long way in staying competitive.

Even if this doesn't include the sunday, that's as many days as both Halo 3 and Halo 4 had in their first weeks. First week means the first calendar week, not the first 7 days btw. If a game launches on saturday, then its first week will only be that saturday and sunday. Likewise, Halo 5's first week is from Tuesday to Sunday (which is almost a full 7 days anyway).

I dunno. I think Xbox is the Anti-Nintendo in terms of 3rd party support. 3rd parites know that for most games a Xbox release will make its money back and they mostly see that there is commercial benefit in not having a complete hardware monopoly. And even if Xbox is not doing very well games will still sell decently enough.

People who think Xb one has a chance of selling like 360 are delluding themselves, but it's also pretty clear that Xb one will pass Xb og LTD fairly easily and thus it will acheive an install base that would be pretty respectable under most circumstances. Only the final LTD for Xb one is likely to be disappointing because MS squandered what it achieved with 360 in a manner that seems to mimic Sony's squandering of the PS2 achievement, and in the minds of some people if MS had done things right Xbox would be the number 1 global console hardware. So if they end the generaion 2:1 behind PS4 that is a huge loss of potential.

I of course never though Xbox had a chance of being number 1 globally even if they got everything right. But I was expecting Xbox to sell something more like 1:1.2-1.3 vs PS4 globally, until the Xb one announcements and PR nightmares happened. Ultimately if MS is not disappointed with this generation then they won't have learned anything. And we know Sony was ultimately disappointed with the PS3 generation because with PS4 they showed they learned a lot, and they produced something that allowed the market to forgive, even though they won't have forgotten. I just hope Sony doesn;t think that by the end of this generation people will have forgotten. If they think the gamer market has forgotten they may well screw up again. Perhaps the fate of Xb one will help Sony not to delude themselves into thinking the market has forgotten.

QB looks like it could be a big exclusive.

I feel it will have as much staying power as Alan Wake unfortunately. If it isnt a massive success it would be nice to see them stick with it tho.