It would be worse than Titanfall, which did over 1 million including bundles.
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NPD Sales Results for October 2015 [Up1: Xbox #1]
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It would be worse than Titanfall, which did over 1 million including bundles.
FunkyPajamas
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Sleep is for the weak. Do you want NPD_george to think we're a bunch of weaklings?
moondoggerr
Banned
This is 4 days worth of sales, right?
graywolf323
Member
8:50am on the east coast and 5:50am on the west coast so yeah a lot of people are still asleep
gundamkyoukai
Member
Seems George is legit then .
Man i hope the ninjas don't get him but George don't seem to give a fuck lol .
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Doesn't mean much since for most, if not all, games sales are very front loaded due to pre-orders and week 1 hype.
ethomaz
Banned
LordOcidax
Member
Not even close... Or did you want to say 15 Millions?
NPD George is creamsugar...
Japanmanx3
Member
Man with Cosmic in here again...George gonna get that verify....what a turn of events. I haven't slept. What a rollercaoster!!!
Cow Goes Moo
Member
i wonder who's gonna be the first icarus
Except for people that obtain the data because of their job, there's no reason to be afraid of NPD.
If I had the data I couldn't care less.
I recommend you read the last 10 pages or so.
MisterR
Member
The Halo 5 sales are very poor. I think Halo 4 and MCC really hurt the franchise. Doesn't help that COD and BF are both releasing right around it too. Now it's just another big game. It's more in the Uncharted category. It's still a huge exclusive, but it's no cultural event anymore. The sales of Halo 5 and AC show me too that people are ready for some new IPs. Especially when you compare them to how well Watch Dogs and Destiny have done.
No way. 30% at best.
igordennis
Member
Goddamn, this sounds like confirmation that NPD George is indeed legit. Wonderful news of true!
Japanmanx3
Member
Even if we do 50% digital (which is an unrealistic number), that still leaves Halo 5 as the worst selling mainline Halo ever and by a big margin.
Amazing and awful, great and horrible, good or bad, they are only empty words.
Right?
MisterR
Member
No. Much more like 25-30%
This reminds me so much of the GAF meltdown last holiday when CBOAT posted his infamous "7-10k". Everyone took that at face value and went into hysterics until the official PR came out and we found out it was actually a bloodbath. Just saying this could be very similar.
That said, these numbers (935k) were not including digital, and only for one country. Maybe the game performed better in EU or even digitally than people expected? Still struggling to come up with $400 million, but that's MS PR for you.
Edit: Thread moves so fast I missed the confirmation. Disregard above lol.
That said, these numbers (935k) were not including digital, and only for one country. Maybe the game performed better in EU or even digitally than people expected? Still struggling to come up with $400 million, but that's MS PR for you.
Edit: Thread moves so fast I missed the confirmation. Disregard above lol.
It doesn't work like that because Xbox owners outside those two markets don't care about Halo anyway.
mejin
Member
Madness, please. Microsoft is struggling really hard outside US/UK. Maybe they have 15M, maybe.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
So looking at this graph and the even just looking at September 15 to October 15 I am convinced people are deferring purchases to November. I guess if there is a silver lining is that HW sales are up YOY, hopefully that trend continues this month and the next.
Personally the Star Wars and COD bundles at a reduced price would have been a far more enticing option than the October fare, and if you could wait one more month for Black Friday you would be saving even more. November sales have conditioned people to wait it out in October I think. I know people that refuse to buy AC at release because EVERY year it is on sale a month later for $35 or less.
Gotdatmoney
Member
Personally I imagine around 300% of sales and hardware being purchased digitally. Huge shift this gen
Lol, no chance. And you stand to get the game a day or two early buying retail copies from etailers, which is considerably more enticing than a midnight preload, especially when etail purchases are usually cheaper to begin with.
I say 25% at best
He'll I'm more digital than physical now and I even bought it physical.
N=1 is absolute /s
Most publishers (and insiders) have been saying ~20% but growing. I find it hard to believe that Halo 5 would smash that trend and sell over half its copies digitally. That seems overly optimistic.
KillerMan91
Member
It's Xbox and Halo. It didn't perform better in Europe.
slavesnyder
Member
That's the spirit!
If you take a Pie and divide it into 10 equally big pieces, then give 9 of the pieces of cake to your friends. You are left with one piece of cake. What colour is it?
Katana_Strikes
Member
Being no.1 doesn't always mean good especially without numbers. Now with numbers it's a different story. And there's nothing amazing about Halo or Xbox here except how they amazing underperformed.
Let me guess all your mates bought it digital?
ethomaz
Banned
It is 900% like UK?
You're right... maybe more like 1.55-1.65 million including digital.
Haha, yeah this is a sales thread where we are all having an intellectual high brow discussion about how software and hardware revenue is affecting the hobby we all love and what kind of impact this will have moving forward. That's what I'm getting by reading this thread . . .
Such enlightenment such insight.
There is no persecution complex, I'm just calling it how I see it. Maybe I'm not reading it the same way as some of you
Seriously, if you have issues with sales threads, don't come in. That's what this is for. For discussion and speculation based on trends and performance. If a major franchise fails to live up to previous expectations, that's a source of discussion, so acting like people are just trying to use it to bask ms or 343 is a strawman.
Please stop with the passive aggressive crap. If you see someone being a blatant troll bashing on it, pm a mod or call them out, rather than just commenting in some super generalizing way.
¡HarlequinPanic!
Member
where's minecraft.
panda-zebra
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gundamkyoukai
Member
Perform better in EU how ?
MS sales are not that great over there and Halo always got most of it sales from USA.
Wildarmsjecht
Member
What.
A.
Twist.
Such an entertaining thread to be sure.
November... Oh you are a month with some high expectations to provide as much lulz as this month.
A.
Twist.
Such an entertaining thread to be sure.
November... Oh you are a month with some high expectations to provide as much lulz as this month.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Any leeh comments yet?
Am I the only person who thinks it's strange to put an (s) at the end of Million when you specify a number in front of it??
I see this all the time, and have no idea why it bothers me.
"They sold 15 Million" looks right to me.
"They sold Millions" looks right to me.
"They sold 15 Millions" just looks and sounds strange. Why do you need the "s"?
Haha, I know it's a bit OT...but why does it annoy me...I suppose it's right or correct grammar either way? I see a lot of people say that, but then many don't. We were never taught to put an "s" on numbers if the actual amount comes before it.