Ooh. If this is true, I'm grabbing popcorn - lots of it.

I wouldn't be surprised - they appeared to have butchered the story in the campaign...and the Bungie fans jumped to Destiny, until disappointment rushed to them...

1.5 million is beyond horrible for a Halo. Halo is Microsoft's largest and most popular IP with hundreds of millions of $ being spent on it every year. If true with so low and a marketing budget like this its going to be a long time before they even break even. Past Halos have sold alot more and with smaller install bases. Maybe Halo is no longer that big and other games have surpassed it in popularity. For comparision Uncharted 3 sold 3.8 million in its first 24 hours and the last of us remastered edition sold more than a million in ist first month. Plus microsoft's game tend to be very front loaded and sell most of there lifetime sells within the first 1-2 weeks.

And for their $400 million revenue in a week PR statement they must have included all xbox hardeware not just Halo themed stuff.

Probably because the guy is like someone in a inner circle thats friends with a guy that has access to real numbers.

And this "guy" was curious how well Halo sold, and asked that person (and got told  1.4-1.5m).

Also if you give out preciese numbers you risk giveing away where those came from.

I doubt those numbers.

You can add ~15-20% for most games nowadays to account for digital. If you want to be extra nice, you can add ~30% but I doubt most console games get 30% of its sales through digital today.

Sorry wrong person.

I'm guessing if he gives out the right amount it might comprimise his source.

1.5 million for 4 days in the US isn't that bad. With 25% digital that's what almost 1.9 million. About 2 million for the whole week. +200k(including digital) for uk. And idk another 500k rest of the world that's 2.7 million fw. If those are the numbers why is that so bad. Halo 5 launched on a console In a bad situation, and to a measly 14.5 million people. My guess all along for fw was 2.7-3.1 million.

What does halo normally do? All shooters are getting lower numbers. Not just halo....

Those numbers are ww i think