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Azuren on 19 January 2016
Mr Puggsly said:
Azuren said:
Both games were bundled. One bundle did so much better. It also had better normal sales.

It's open and shut. Uncharted has more brand awareness now.

Were millions of Halo 5 bundles sold for $299? I don't think so.

Halo 5 bundles were $399-449. Uncharted was always a massively bundled series and Sony likes to boast about those numbers.

People neglect mass bundling of Uncharted because of the platform its on.

People ignore the mass bundling of Uncharted because there were other bundles, and they chose Uncharted.

 

Halo 5 lost. It's a downward trend from here. Someone once offered a bet about Uncharted 4 not selling more than Halo 5. I wish I would have taken it, because I'll take it now. 





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barneystinson69 on 19 January 2016
AEGRO said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Well if people had a choice to truly choose any game they wanted, most wouldn't have chose Uncharted. However, that was the bundle Sony was really pushing. Especially on Black Friday and that's a big reason Uncharted Collection has sold 3 million units.

Gears UE also got a big push via bundles as well. Not really worth boasting though because we know why its selling so much.

Its funny people even entertain the idea Uncharted bundles is equal to non-bundle sales.

People certainly didnt choose Halo 5 either.

There were tons of deals that let you choose the game of your preference FREE, 2 X 1, etc and still people skipped Halo 5.

I bought my X1 at Amazon.com, they were giving a FREE game plus a 50$ Gift Card.

People HAD the choice of choosing the free game or the 50$ towards Halo 5 and still they went the other way.

Xbox fans can circle the facts all they want, but at the end of the day The Nathan Drake Collection outsold Halo 5, the biggest Xbox franchise which was newly released at the time.

 

Thats like saying Wii sports outsold GTA 5. But then again, it was bundled with every Wii console. Uncharted bundle was 299 during BF, it must've sold well. Halo 5 has sold 4 million without the need for mass bundling. As NPD numbes show, Uncharted did 250k retail. 

The Halo 5 bundle was 499$, and was put in when Microsoft has plenty of other options available. You can't compare. When more than 1/2 of the PS4's sold this holiday came with one game, and that's counted towards sales, of course it has a big advantage! And I'm not denying Halo's decline, what Im saying is that people are trying to say Uncharted NDC outsold Halo 5, but that really isn't the story.

ut when 



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barneystinson69 on 19 January 2016
Azuren said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Were millions of Halo 5 bundles sold for $299? I don't think so.

Halo 5 bundles were $399-449. Uncharted was always a massively bundled series and Sony likes to boast about those numbers.

People neglect mass bundling of Uncharted because of the platform its on.

People ignore the mass bundling of Uncharted because there were other bundles, and they chose Uncharted.

 

Halo 5 lost. It's a downward trend from here. Someone once offered a bet about Uncharted 4 not selling more than Halo 5. I wish I would have taken it, because I'll take it now. 

They chose? Of course they did! It was the only 299$ bundle for BF, and was the cheapest bundle till mid-december! People always love to go for cheap! Don't tell me millions of people chose this bundle because the game was so epic! It was the cheapest option. Same thing with the gears bundle microsoft had!





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Protendo on 19 January 2016
CosmicSex said:
potato_hamster said:

Again, look at all the other Halo games that sold much better on a lower install base. Look at how Splatoon is selling better than Halo on an install base of 12 million. Install base is not a legitimate reason.

Userbase should be a non-factor when comparing an HD remake collection that many PS4 owners have already played to Microsoft's flagship exclusive title.

One assumes that Halo 5 would have had higher sales if it had a higher user base and this is not hard to grasp at all.   

It did have a higher user base (much higher) than Halo 3, and sold a fraction of the amount.



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barneystinson69 on 19 January 2016
Protendo said:
CosmicSex said:
potato_hamster said:

Again, look at all the other Halo games that sold much better on a lower install base. Look at how Splatoon is selling better than Halo on an install base of 12 million. Install base is not a legitimate reason.

Userbase should be a non-factor when comparing an HD remake collection that many PS4 owners have already played to Microsoft's flagship exclusive title.

One assumes that Halo 5 would have had higher sales if it had a higher user base and this is not hard to grasp at all.   

It did have a higher user base (much higher) than Halo 3, and sold a fraction of the amount.

 

But Halo 3 had virtually no competition. COD 4 didn't come out till november of 2007.



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barneystinson69 on 19 January 2016
Swordmasterman said:
barneystinson69 said:

People are forgetting that just about all the sales came from a bundle. It was a standard PS4 bundle. As I said, it did 250k in the US for the whole year without them.

Did you think that a Remaster cannot sell if it is not Heavy bundled ?, i think that atleast half of the people would purchase the collection if was not bundled.

if you think this way so you also think that The Last of Us Remaster, would not sell well if was not bundled ?.

 

As I stated, the game itself did 250k in the US for the holiday season. Why would current owners of the PS4 be less enticed to buy it if a bundle is out?



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Protendo on 19 January 2016
barneystinson69 said:

But Halo 3 had virtually no competition. COD 4 didn't come out till november of 2007.

That alone is proof that Halo is no longer the franchise it once was. Which is the reason for the thread. Meanwhile Uncharted keeps rising. Halo 5 should be compared to Uncharted 4. We will see how they measure up when the time comes.





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barneystinson69 on 19 January 2016
Protendo said:
barneystinson69 said:

But Halo 3 had virtually no competition. COD 4 didn't come out till november of 2007.

That alone is proof that Halo is no longer the franchise it once was. Which is the reason for the thread. Meanwhile Uncharted keeps rising. Halo 5 should be compared to Uncharted 4. We will see how they measure up when the time comes.

But that's not the point of this thread. This thread is saying Uncharted Collection outsold Halo 5, when in truth it was just bundled with most PS4's this holiday.





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Protendo on 19 January 2016
barneystinson69 said:

But that's not the point of this thread. This thread is saying Uncharted Collection outsold Halo 5, when in truth it was just bundled with most PS4's this holiday.

The truth is that Uncharted (Remaster Collection) outsold Halo 5 (Numbered Entry). None of us saw it coming.

That is a feat!



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barneystinson69 on 19 January 2016
Protendo said:
barneystinson69 said:

But that's not the point of this thread. This thread is saying Uncharted Collection outsold Halo 5, when in truth it was just bundled with most PS4's this holiday.

The truth is that Uncharted (Remaster Collection) outsold Halo 5 (Numbered Entry). None of us saw it coming.

That is a feat!

 

Of course we didn't! But we also didn't know Uncharted was bundled with 1/2 the PS4's this holiday season.



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