Currently looking. So far, I found that Minecraft sold 400k day one (digitally): http://www.forbes.com/sites/danieln...es-minecraft-on-xbox-360-breaks-sales-record/
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NPD Sales Results for October 2015 [Up1: Xbox #1]
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Currently looking. So far, I found that Minecraft sold 400k day one (digitally): http://www.forbes.com/sites/danieln...es-minecraft-on-xbox-360-breaks-sales-record/
That's not sales, that's leaderboards participation, which is not the same as sales.
EDIT: I'm done arguing with you, this is going nowhere (no offense).
There are a lot of problems with your line of reasoning, but one of them is the fact that Minecraft on 360 was on the Xbox Live Arcade store...which Halo 5 is not. They got you with marketing double talk.
Can you give me a source? Where was stated, that Halo 5 did so well digitally?
Here we go.
"The Xbox 360 version of Minecraft became profitable within the first 24 hours of the game's release in 2012, when the game broke the Xbox Live sales records with 400,000 players online.[125] Within a week of being on the Xbox Live Marketplace, Minecraft sold upwards of 1 million copies"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft#Commercial
"The Xbox 360 version of Minecraft became profitable within the first 24 hours of the game's release in 2012, when the game broke the Xbox Live sales records with 400,000 players online.[125] Within a week of being on the Xbox Live Marketplace, Minecraft sold upwards of 1 million copies"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft#Commercial
You sure about that? Titanfall spent a long time at $20 something dollars. You get it for free with EA access and those numbers will spike when we get the first real titanfall 2 announcement I believe
gundamkyoukai
Member
What the hell does that have to do with anything ?
If you like the game or not don't matter .
4 years between games is a lot of time and they already did a new IP .
panda-zebra
Member
Worldwide.
This is all your own opinion my friend. So subjective and your trying to pass it off as a blanket statement of people hating Uncharted.
How the hell did the entire series reach 21m sold then?
From Major Nelson:
http://majornelson.com/2012/05/10/minecraft-xbox-360-edition-breaks-digital-sales-records/
It's possible they divide the stores by "Xbox Live Arcade" and "Xbox Store" because the former qualifier is what MJ used in his blog post:
Yeah, WW. That was what I was talking about. The 1 million digital was WW...
It is right there. First week digital sales. I can clearly see it...
opticalmace
Member
Looks like we (well, Matt) found the contradiction. I didn't even know they changed the name of their online store. I have a 360 but not an XB1, though.
That's the same number Titanfall used for their 10 million figure.
Lol what do you mean if there's a halo 6? Halo is and will continue to one of the most profitable Gaming IPs in existence, even with its substantial decline. It isn't going anywhere
Will they make H6 more content heavy at launch, most likely. That's a given. 'False advertising' and prometheans have nothing to do with the sales decline. The series has been in decline since H4, and now the numbers show it because many of the people who had 360s and bought H4, now play on PlayStation.
On another note, I wonder if MS will sell Warzone on windows store or something... Maximize revenue potential
fallen_dawn
Member
Just saw that - I assume the arcade and store are treated separately. I find it very, very difficult to believe that Halo 5 sold upwards of 1 million digitally within a week (even if it was worldwide). That would be a really big outlier in terms of digital/retail splits, would it not?
Katana_Strikes
Member
After the UK Halo thread you still can't believe people could continue pulling the digital saviour card but people continue to be in denial.
To add to that, the franchise sold 13 million since the launch of UC3, with most of the sales likely being UC3 of course.
& despite some GAFers saying people only buy it for the single player, in its heyday only Call of Duty had a bigger population, UC3 always had 80k+ concurrent players.
Insure that # is helped by the digital codes in the bundles
Jack The Nipper
Banned
Has to do with a lot. This is the first new halo on a new system. Do you have any idea what that really means?
My whole point is more new ips, more fresh ideas. This is the damn point.
Uncharted is just an example of a game that could eventually tank. Or you wanna wait til it tanks first?
That's bad business sense. But Sony is doing right with guerrilla games imo.
Hope horizon is fun.
God of war remaster mostly tanked, uc ain't doing that well. Yes they are remaster but not all remaster that are wanted do that poorly.
Didn't they do about as good as re remaster? Quite a big difference in game size and money.
But yes, it's damn time for classic resident evil.
AmaterasuOni
Banned
That's why I asked. Does it have any power to survive? SW is going to murder everything, that is the only thing I know.
But hasn't that already been proven. Look, I could be completely wrong. But digital is bigger than you all think. Realistically, these numbers are around 35-40% of all sales. A bit higher than usual, but not totally uncommon. Plus, the bundle contributed to 400-500k sales. So yes, 1 million digital is very likely.
Halo 5 seems to have the most defensive fans of any game I've seen when it comes to sales. They seem to defy logic just to make sales look good.
Lol you're getting baited to hell and back. Best to ignore.
Yes if they make a halo 6, they are better off copying destiny and making a "halo worlds" game
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
I want to know how DQH, ToZ and D5 did ;___;
slavesnyder
Member
Thrown-out couch coop killed Halo for sure.
Let's not generalize an entire fanbase for this, there are people like that for every franchise to be fair.
LOL. Don't even try to act as if the sony side hasn't done it either. Digital is very important, and I'm sure it'll mean alot for UC4 as well...
Aceofspades
Banned
Last week we had "friends circle = 900% digital"
Today we had "Halo 5 sold 1 MILLION digitally!!!"
Large sales in Europe which means they don't count
TLOU2 though is the one which I reckon will be absolutely massive. UC4 I am expecting similar/slightly better numbers than UC3. (About 7-8 mil)
Lol I already gave evidence to support what I said. Now you go and counter that.
Large sales in Europe which means they don't count
Europeans do count that sweet dough...then take a vacation in the Bahamas.
Except your evidence is wrong. You are wrong. It's ok, everyone is wrong sometimes.
opticalmace
Member
No, but other data came through. Somewhere in the 800-850k range, approximately.
Well, I'm not really generalizing. There are a group of people who insist that digital sales contributed an abnormally high percentage to the total sales of Halo 5. That's the fans I meant.
This doesn't have anything to do with Sony or Microsoft side. I never once brought it up. But some of you are so insistent that digital sales are huge for Halo 5 without evidence. And your Minecraft stats don't show anything.
Ghost Slayer
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gundamkyoukai
Member
Maybe you should wait for UC4 sales plus it's the last UC game from ND .
What is bad business is not doing UC4 for PS4 when UC 3 sold 7 million plus .
It would seem so .
Large sales in Europe which means they don't count
First month shipments for UC3 were 5 million (compared to ~850k sell-through for NPD), so the US likely represents ~20% of the sales.
No, but I also gave my point of bundle's. Didn't that do 400-500k? In that scenario, its likely Halo 5 did average when it comes to digital, but the bundle's built it up. Its not that hard to believe it did 1 million digital, and it wouldn't be a big deal.
As a European my response is, I wish!