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aLkaLiNE on 09 June 2016

Isn't the thread title technically incorrect?
This reminds me of the "almost 10 million sold" non-figure.



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Goatseye on 09 June 2016
aLkaLiNE said:
Isn't the thread title technically incorrect?
This reminds me of the "almost 10 million sold" non-figure.

Take that to Halo Franchise Director, ask the mf for a receipt.

I just copy and paste.



thismeintiel on 09 June 2016
Shadow1980 said:
Well, it was at about 1.7M in the U.S. at the end of 2015, which is just over two months worth of sales for it. I don't think we got any numbers for January, but I imagine it was a decent drop. Might've been at about 1.8M at retail as of the end of January. Assuming the U.S. still represents about 60% of Halo sales, that means the global tally would've been about 3M. So, we can probably assume about 40% digital (including bundled copies), which is well outside the norm for a retail-release title.

Still, 5 million globally after 3 months is a big drop-off from previous games. Halo 3 was at 4.83M in the U.S. alone as of the end of 2007 (so probably around 8M globally), and Reach and Halo 4 probably weren't too far behind in their first three months.

Pretty much.  While Halo still sells well, there is no denying it is far from what it used to be.



 

Goatseye on 09 June 2016
thismeintiel said:
Shadow1980 said:
Well, it was at about 1.7M in the U.S. at the end of 2015, which is just over two months worth of sales for it. I don't think we got any numbers for January, but I imagine it was a decent drop. Might've been at about 1.8M at retail as of the end of January. Assuming the U.S. still represents about 60% of Halo sales, that means the global tally would've been about 3M. So, we can probably assume about 40% digital (including bundled copies), which is well outside the norm for a retail-release title.

Still, 5 million globally after 3 months is a big drop-off from previous games. Halo 3 was at 4.83M in the U.S. alone as of the end of 2007 (so probably around 8M globally), and Reach and Halo 4 probably weren't too far behind in their first three months.

Pretty much.  While Halo still sells well, there is no denying it is far from what it used to be.

Can't compare it to the days where FPS were mostly Arena style and the military twitch ones didn't exist back then.



aLkaLiNE on 09 June 2016
Goatseye said:
aLkaLiNE said:
Isn't the thread title technically incorrect?
This reminds me of the "almost 10 million sold" non-figure.

Take that to Halo Franchise Director, ask the mf for a receipt.

I just copy and paste.

Copy and pasting threads is against forum rules.

Posting misleading thread titles is also against forum rules. We use shipped vs sold to distinguish end user sell through, might want to look into that 



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Lrdfancypants on 09 June 2016

Good for halo. I bought it but haven't played it yet.



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Goatseye on 09 June 2016
Shadow1980 said:
Goatseye said:

Can't compare it to the days where FPS were mostly Arena style and the military twitch ones didn't exist back then.

The thing is, Halo sales remained remarkably stable from Halo 2 (released in 2004) on towards Halo 4 (released in 2012). The series ran right through the rise of CoD and similar "modern" military-style "twitch" FPSs, yet never lost steam. It wasn't until 343i's mishandling of the series in the form of the MCC's disastrous first few months that we saw the series go into decline. 343i has done a much better job with Halo 5, and hopefully it's enough to have gotten them back in gamers' good graces. If Halo 6 ends up exhibiting a rebound in sales for the series, we can say that Halo 5 was a fluke dragged down by the MCC's multiplayer woes. They may also get more people back into the series by supporting local split-screen and proper offline LAN play.

It's much easier to get into twitch based FPS games than Halo. People flock to where their friends are playing and COD, Battlefield and others have a greater presence in the market than Halo. Those games started hitting tens of millions in single consoles after 2010 and military FPS cemented itself the king of sales period. 

You're right TMCC was a huge dent in 343i's momentum with Halo but hopefully with a better hardware and writer, they can make no compromise and deliver on all fronts.



binary solo on 09 June 2016
naruball said:
binary solo said:

There's never been any real doubt IMO. Splatoon sales were always going to drop away a lot because the install base is so small, and Wii U will be gone from the market in 2017. Halo 5 will still keep selling for another 18 months at least and it will overtake Splatoon's LTD easily.

I don't see Splatoon being on NX, Nintendo would be mad to do that. Spla2oon needs to be a launch, or year 1 game on NX.

How much do you see Halo 5 selling LT?

Hard to say after this information. I was originally looking at about 7 million, but if this 5 million shipped at 3 months is close-ish to 5 million sell through then I think it could get higher than that. 8 million maybe, but probably not 9 million.



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Nuvendil on 09 June 2016
nanarchy said:
Ryng_Tolu said:

There is an important difference, MS overshipped, Nintendo didn't.

Splatoon gap in sales/shipments was 50k in japan, most likely barely over 300K WW. (which should still mean something like 3.75m WW)

 

We all know MS overship like crazy, there most likely over 1.5 million difference between sold and shipped, if not more.

 

Not to mention that Splatoon is almost for sure gonna be a NX thing at this point, so let's just be over this, even if for some miracle Halo 5 will outsell the Wii U version, no way it beat NX+Wii U combined.

Bullshit, they can only ship what retailers order. That argument might hold for the first month or so when retailers over estimate demand but they certainly won't continue that way for months post release.

Well, that's technically true but it didn't stop MS from so insanely overshipping the Titanfall bundle to the point that there were piles and piles of them still showing up all over the place when Holiday 2014 rolled around, several months after the bundle stopped being produced.  MS also is a large company with a fairly successful console, they have more leverage when negotiating sales to retailers than Nintendo with the Wii U.  Just saying, MS loves to push as many through the channels as possible.  Nintendo has had a hard time this whole gen both getting stores to buy large quantities and meeting demand when it ramps up.



Mr Puggsly on 09 June 2016
celador said:
Not impressive numbers for Halo historically. Will be interesting to see where the next game is with competition getting bigger.

Historically IPs generally dont stay this successful this long and its still doing very respectable numbers.



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