I really don't see that like some big achievement, despite Halo 5 was released 1.5 year earlier, PS4 has twice bigger instal base than XB1.

This is the problem I have with some of the extended universe Halo media out there. I get that the silent protagonist lends itself very well to games, but not so much to film/tv, but I couldn't sit through that CGI Halo movie (I think it was Fall of Reach? or something) that gave you all this backstory about John and his training to make it into the Spartan program. Took away too much of what made MC great.

I much prefer the silent guy in the suit.

But...he's quotable, to some extent. He's far from being a silent protagonist, nor designed as one, because while Bungie always had in mind leaving the image of him up to the players, they did search for specific voices from the very start (in this case they went for a Disc Jokey that had never had experience in videogames before, I don't really know why).

A silent protagonist is someone like Chrono Trigger, or Gordon Freeman. Considering MC's run so far, he's far from it, especially when even memes were made around some of his quotes, like "Finishing the fight" and so on.

Well, it could or could not have sold more than UC4 digitally, we don't have any numbers to prove or disprove. We know the ratio for Halo 5 was 25-30% at that time (could be higher or lower now) and we have no info for UC4 so who knows.

I don't remember being rude or anything to you, but if I were sorry.

No, and it was funny, and as you saw the reasoning after it get even better.

You also forgot that Final Fantasy have never had a main line game. Or all those games where you change the name of the protagonist.

Just when I though we already have moved from this. If WiiU reached 100M, would Splatoon have 50M sales?

And just to finish what imagedvd was saying... yes, having a bigger userbase can lead to more potential buyers, but when looking at trends and it shows the title being unpervious to userbase (very little flunctuation between userbase size and sw sales) it mute your argument as the main reason being userbase.

So what you are try to tell me that Halo 5 sale numbers would have same if XB1 installed base is twice of current one!? Of Course that we can assume if installed base of much bigger than Splatoon would sell also much better.

If we watch VGC numbers, Halo 5 sold 4.2m on instal base of 23m, wile Uncharted 4 sold also 4.2m on instal base of 44.7m, basically attach rate of Halo 5 is almost twice bigger than attach rate of Uncharted 4, that far more impressive despite its lees time on market.

We already had several people showing that attach ratio doesn't accompany total HW sold. So although there is more potential buyers they don't translate to sales when userbase increase.

Halo 3 sold better than all other Halos on X360 even on a much smaller userbase than the others (also smaller than X1 and still sold 3x more). Uncharted was selling around 7M on 85M userbase of PS3 (started smaller on UC1 and closed bigger on UC3, a part could be attributed to userbase, but most would go for the franchise growing popularity) but now we have 5M on a userbase that is half of PS3, so it still shows that the franchise have grow even more.

Double of instal base does not mean equal exactly double of sales of some game, but sales would definitely be noticeably better with twice bigger instal base. So I really dont see point of comparing sales of some game where one has twice bigger instal base.

Halo was arguably a more well known franchise and had beginnings before Uncharted. 

I didn't see too many people making your argument when PS3 games were being outsold by 360 despite the 360 having a considerable lead in sales. It was always "haha Sony lost this gen" by the so called "other side." This is why these console wars are silly and pathetic. And having a 1.5 year lead doesnt mean anything? Hm... people make their own facts I guess. 

PS3 and Xbox360 has similar instal base, PS4 has double instal base over XB1. Having double instal base definitely mean much more than having 1.5 year lead in sales for some game.

This is not taking digital sales into consideration, but that's huge! VGC isn't 100% accurate, but it's in the same ball park most of the time. Maybe the numbers differ like 10-20% on this one.

MS must be really disappointed anyways for Uncharted even being close to the numbers of their best selling 1st party IP. Great for Sony, and hopefully this will be a wake up call for 343 Industries that their take on Halo just isn't working.