So a game outsells another game with twice the User base is amazing results?
You know what's amazing, Halo 5 selling the same as Uncharted 4 with half the user base. < That's what people should be looking at.
Besides Halo 5 has sold over 5m units, I doubt or will be shocked if UC4 has sold more digital copies than Halo 5.

I love when people dont look into the reasons to why. Twice the market you would hope to out sell your competitor. Halo 5 would have sold more copies on the PS4 than the XB1 so either way these comparisons mean nothing.

My question is, why arent we comparing total sales? (Digital) Sounds abit odd espeacilly since Halo 5 has sold more than UC4 lifetime.  

It's easy to just throw out games as if they are anything more than an exception to the rule, but if you apply logic and context you can see why this is just another irrelevant deflection. Halo 3 sold a lot for various reasons. One big reason is similar to the Nintendo games, lack of competition. It came around before CoD4 exploded, and before Battlefield became a legitimate franchise on consoles. Also, hype. I can't think of a single game as hyped as Halo 3, except maybe Modern Warfare 2. You could be puming gas at 7-11 and instead of thanking you for your business, the gas pump would tell you to remember to go inside and preorder your copy of Halo 3. It was ridiculous. Lastly, Halo as a brand was stronger then. You and others act as if people talking about userbase are saying it's entirely the userbase. We have said it's also franchise fatigue, and stronger competition. It's just good old fashion common sense.

I'm beginning to question whether or not you follow the context of my response.  The entire point of my comment you quoted is in the confidence of my claim of H5 having more digital sales than UC4.  

1.) Do you also believe that to--currently--be true?

2.) If not, what points can you bring up that rebut the claim?

Using the 5 million (sold to customers) number O' Connor was specifically used to suggest we could get some educated guess at the rate of physical/digital (at the time).  I'm totally down with seeing contrary points that may suggest my claim is incorrect though.  And I'd hope it sticks to the points/argument b/c my patience is running thin for bullshit snark doesn't contribute anything to the discussion.

I'm beginning to question whether or not you follow the context of my response.  The entire point of my comment you quoted is in the confidence of my claim of H5 having more digital sales than UC4.  

1.) Do you also believe that to--currently--be true?

2.) If not, what points can you bring up that rebut the claim?

Using the 5 million (sold to customers) number O' Connor was specifically used to suggest we could get some educated guess at the rate of physical/digital (at the time).  I'm totally down with seeing contrary points that may suggest my claim is incorrect though.  And I'd hope it sticks to the points/argument b/c my patience is running thin for bullshit snark doesn't contribute anything to the discussion.

I'm beginning to question whether or not you follow the context of my response.  The entire point of my comment you quoted is in the confidence of my claim of H5 having more digital sales than UC4.  

1.) Do you also believe that to--currently--be true?

2.) If not, what points can you bring up that rebut the claim?

Using the 5 million (sold to customers) number O' Connor was specifically used to suggest we could get some educated guess at the rate of physical/digital (at the time).  I'm totally down with seeing contrary points that may suggest my claim is incorrect though.  And I'd hope it sticks to the points/argument b/c my patience is running thin for bullshit snark doesn't contribute anything to the discussion.

Lol, this thread is funny. So much spin.

Let me attempt to make it easy fir everyone even tho we are using VGC highly suspect numbers.

Ok, U4 just passed Halo after about 5 months on the market to Halo's 10-11 months. But let's say Halo is still ahead due to this myth that XB1 games sell more digitally.

So how about this, at its current rate, after its first holiday season U4 would have sold 25% more than whateevr Halo 5's sales are.

And by this time next year, it's sales to halo would be 2:1 at least.

How's that for a bold prediction.

And to those saying the sales of uncharted are attributed to it selling to a larger install base and how great it is that Halo even sold as much as it did..... well, that's no doubt a remarkable observation. Pity while they came up with that theory they didn't account to the fact that U4 has matched halo sales while being on the market for half the time and without a holiday boost under its belt. 

Lol I honestly didn't expect this much downplay in this thread. Got users saying Halo 5 isnt a mainline Halo game. Smh

If you had read even the last 10 or so posts in this thread you would see this is exactley the conversation that's taking place.

To bring you up to speed, the effect userbase has on total sales is potentialy significant, but nowhere near 1:1.

On top of that, Uncharted 4 has sold more than twice as quickly and has yet to go through its first holiday season.

We also have no idea what total sales are for each game since we don't have digital numbers for either game.

Oh, and the idea that digital sales are higher on the Xbox One than on the PS4 is a myth pulled out of thin air as an excuse for weaker software sales.

Wait what? you are kidding right?