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binary solo on 13 November 2015
GribbleGrunger said:
H3ADShOt3 said:
So then every game that launched in October flopped?

I hate the word 'flopped'. They did badly.

Perhaps October is going to become a dead month, because everyone knows crazy deals are just a few weeks away.



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GribbleGrunger on 13 November 2015
binary solo said:

Perhaps October is going to become a dead month, because everyone knows crazy deals are just a few weeks away.

Yes, that's something I've considered too. MS could well have set the wheels in motion with their crazy deals last year and now people are playing the waiting game. Black Friday could become even more of a stampede.



 

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bananaking21 on 13 November 2015

Bombctobor!

PS4 BOMBA! down YoY with a pricecut?! BOMBA!
Uncharted NDC BOMBA!!
Halo 5 sub 1 million? BOMBA!
XB1 is the only "decent" seller. its 300k, up YoY, but with its biggest exclusive it should have been more.



KiigelHeart on 13 November 2015
binary solo said:
Also, where is MS's $400 million from Halo 5 coming from? With around 1 million in physical game sales coming from the USA and only some % of 305K as direct hardware revenue, where's the rest of the revenue coming from? Has the world outside of the USA suddenly become a far more popular place than the USA for Halo?

I've been thinking the same thing. I just can't see them shipping in $400 million worth of Halo-stuff and then brag about it. Well, I quess it's possible tho.



Goodnightmoon on 13 November 2015
H3ADShOt3 said:
So then every game that launched in October flopped?

Except Yoshi! :P



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bananaking21 on 13 November 2015
KiigelHeart said:
binary solo said:
Also, where is MS's $400 million from Halo 5 coming from? With around 1 million in physical game sales coming from the USA and only some % of 305K as direct hardware revenue, where's the rest of the revenue coming from? Has the world outside of the USA suddenly become a far more popular place than the USA for Halo?

I've been thinking the same thing. I just can't see them shipping in $400 million worth of Halo-stuff and then brag about it. Well, I quess it's possible tho.


its shipped. not sold. they probably over shipped and bragged about it. 



KiigelHeart on 13 November 2015
bananaking21 said:
KiigelHeart said:

I've been thinking the same thing. I just can't see them shipping in $400 million worth of Halo-stuff and then brag about it. Well, I quess it's possible tho.


its shipped. not sold. they probably over shipped and bragged about it. 

Maybe. Doesn't seem very smart tho, given that this PR is mostly aimed for shareholders, it's misleading. Their PR is just making things worse.



bananaking21 on 13 November 2015
KiigelHeart said:
bananaking21 said:


its shipped. not sold. they probably over shipped and bragged about it. 

Maybe. Doesn't seem very smart tho, given that this PR is mostly aimed for shareholders, it's misleading. Their PR is just making things worse.


they probably felt pressured to release a PR statement or people would have thought it would have under performed. they probably knew what people would know the numbers, so they threw them off with the 400 million PR, which you are still going to see people use. and fanboys use



pitzy272 on 13 November 2015

No way it's true. Halo must've done at least 1.5-2mill

How much does nba typically do?



KiigelHeart on 13 November 2015
bananaking21 said:

 


they probably felt pressured to release a PR statement or people would have thought it would have under performed. they probably knew what people would know the numbers, so they threw them off with the 400 million PR, which you are still going to see people use. and fanboys use

Well I think majority of their customers and gamers don't read their PR or even follow sales so feeling pressured just seems unreasonable. And if they were going to do their PR with shipped in $´s why include hardware at all? Yeah sure 400 million is impressive number to throw around, but it just backfired.