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Teeqoz on 07 November 2015
Puppyroach said:
If this would be the highest selling digital title in the Xbox store ever, does that include compared to what Minecraft sold on 360 as well?


I dunno. I think it might be that it's the highest first week for any digital title on the Xbox store.



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jason1637 on 07 November 2015
Puppyroach said:
If this would be the highest selling digital title in the Xbox store ever, does that include compared to what Minecraft sold on 360 as well?


Its the best selling game on the xbox store first week. and this 1.4-1.5million is us only at retail.



JRPGfan on 07 November 2015
Azzanation said:

How are these low numbers? Also Halo games have legs, with its amazing multiplayer it will continue to sell months on end. It will probably end around the 4-5m sold in my opinion.

As for the franchise's health, the game raked in 400m+ in its first week, i dont think game sales matter to MS anymore since they have already made there money on it. Halo 6 is only going to improve on this. Halo is far from dead.

I heard that Call of Duty is kinda killing the Halo sales, after CoD launched halo basically sold next to nothing.

That could kinda ruin its legs abit.



jason1637 on 07 November 2015
JRPGfan said:
Azzanation said:

How are these low numbers? Also Halo games have legs, with its amazing multiplayer it will continue to sell months on end. It will probably end around the 4-5m sold in my opinion.

As for the franchise's health, the game raked in 400m+ in its first week, i dont think game sales matter to MS anymore since they have already made there money on it. Halo 6 is only going to improve on this. Halo is far from dead.

I heard that Call of Duty is kinda killing the Halo sales, after CoD launched halo basically sold next to nothing.

That could kinda ruin its legs abit.


I heard its still selling well but cod killed not of sales. My prediction is 50k a day in the US and 80j per day ww.



hudsoniscool on 07 November 2015
thismeintiel said:
Well, when we compare it to Halo 3, the best like for like entry in the series, the Halo franchise is definitely in decline. Halo 3 launched the last week of the month, like Halo 5. Both were the first main entry in the franchise for their gen. Both launched on a small user base, the XBO actually beating the 360 by 2M+ in the same time frame. Yet, Halo 5 did 3.3M just in the US, according to NPD. If these numbers are right, I doubt Halo 5 even did 3M WW. Probably closer to 2.5M.

It's definitely not a failure, but it just continues to illustrate how the XBO isn't doing any favors for Xbox franchises.


I don't think it means the series has declined. If halo 5 did 2-5-3 million worldwide with digital and halo 3 did whatever it did(3.5 million?). That's not that big of a difference and considering halo 3 probably had a marketing budget 3-5 times the size of 5's it's not bad at all.



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

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Snoopy on 07 November 2015
hudsoniscool said:
thismeintiel said:
Well, when we compare it to Halo 3, the best like for like entry in the series, the Halo franchise is definitely in decline. Halo 3 launched the last week of the month, like Halo 5. Both were the first main entry in the franchise for their gen. Both launched on a small user base, the XBO actually beating the 360 by 2M+ in the same time frame. Yet, Halo 5 did 3.3M just in the US, according to NPD. If these numbers are right, I doubt Halo 5 even did 3M WW. Probably closer to 2.5M.

It's definitely not a failure, but it just continues to illustrate how the XBO isn't doing any favors for Xbox franchises.


I don't think it means the series has declined. If halo 5 did 2-5-3 million worldwide with digital and halo 3 did whatever it did(3.5 million?). That's not that big of a difference and considering halo 3 probably had a marketing budget 3-5 times the size of 5's it's not bad at all.


I think someone said in another post this was just the debut month. So it isn't even a full week (4 days).



hudsoniscool on 07 November 2015

Also these numbers don't go through the end of the week just till the end of the month. Missing Friday, Saturday and Sunday for that week. That probably equates to at least 150k retail sales



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

Mr Puggsly on 07 November 2015

Well the biggest opening before Halo 5 was Advanced Warfare, which did 1.7 million. So I imagine Halo 5 will be north of 2 million. Maybe 2.5 with digital.

Even if Halo has declined its still bigger than many popular IPs will ever achieve. Every IP goes down at some point. CoD has also seen a huge decline since MW3, yet still doing great.



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craighopkins on 07 November 2015
TheSting said:
Ali_16x said:


Ugh, I was sure I put Microsoft, going to ask mods to change it.


I believe digital is more than that. Well it's rumor anyway so it doesn't matter 


I agree. all my friends did digital so they can do download before it came out



Insidb on 07 November 2015

I think a 25-30% digital rate would be possible, albeit on the high end. That, however, would be something of a record that I would have expected to see in the PR statement a la "highest digital %/volume/amount/etc. of any console game sold in first week." If it had a Destiny type launch, with Destiny type digital sales, and with maximum digital sales growth potential from 2014-2015, then that would be right around ~25%. That's a lot of ifs, though, but it is a possibility.