I'd say this is confirmation that NPDGeorge is legitimate:

Originally Posted by CosmicQueso

What a time to be alive.

After so much time in the cave, staring at shadows, NeoGAF is now free to stare at the light of truth. It will burn your eyes at first, and you may want to return to the comfort of the cave. But fear not! Your eyes will slowly adjust to the sun and you will never again wish to return to the darkness.

Wow. Is it a modern version of Plato's story about the cave?

any one is suggesting that you're partial to either side, you only have a behavior not in line with a moderator in this particular post. In any case if you think you should moderate it, so do not threats. And I say this with all  respect.

Oh my. So this will probably be the poorest selling Halo main game. Maybe the franchise is just aging.

This is two confirmation now. I think he's legitimate:

its just a spin, to try make it seem like it did better than previous halo games. so they can say its the "biggest launch in halo history".

Now that it seems that the dust have settled, NOT an impressive month. My first thought was "Wow! The Xbox One outsold the PS4." The 81% increase in and of itself was pretty impressive. But when I finally realized that Microsoft had to pull out all the stops to get there and considering that Halo 5 did not launch nowhere near previously installments, what else can they do short of giving the One away to out "sell" the PS4? Every month cannot be a "Halo 5" month. For the sake of the console industry as a whole, I just hope it's just pre-Black Friday angst We'll see.

So under 1m is with bundle copies but without digital then?

The digital sales wouldn't be much help because the Bundles came with a digital copy of the game.

This is most likely what it actually did. If it surpassed NBA 2K16, it went well over the 1M barrier...

If anything, it seems most people either went digital or were people who already owned the XONE...