Beautiful Ninja
Member
You do realize that the point of twitch is to do both at the same time, right? Destiny players seem to manage both OK.
Halo 5 sales in the UK [Excludes digital sales]
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You do realize that the point of twitch is to do both at the same time, right? Destiny players seem to manage both OK.
Are you actually buying a halo license at that price, or just game sharing someone else's? That's going to impact digital units even further.
Super_Cobra
Member
First of all good numbers. Not the same previous halos did and what people expected. But halo franchise is nowhere near as big as it used to be.
End of an era?
Call of duty is heading that same direction. We need a new shooter.
End of an era?
Call of duty is heading that same direction. We need a new shooter.
Zekra Dezivad
Member
Battlefront will be huge, really.
I thought it was really funny though.
I'm kind of sad to see m0dus getting so upset about it.
Cave Johnson
Member
Real question: didn't TR, sell as much as FO3?
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I noticed with Halo 4, the franchise seemed to decline in popularity. Halo 5 looks and plays fantastic, it's a shame that it's doing even worse.
Maybe if Microsoft isn't happy with sales, it'll suddenly make sense for them to bring Halo to PC.
Maybe if Microsoft isn't happy with sales, it'll suddenly make sense for them to bring Halo to PC.
AmaterasuOni
Banned
And SW:B destroys Blop3 I think.
Just because it topped the chart doesn't mean it didn't sell poorly considering it's franchise history.
And your friends choice of purchase do not mean that 90% of sales in the UK are digital, that's incredibly unlikely considering the difference in prices between buying from an online retailer or supermarket and from the digital stores.
Dunno. If that was a concern to me, I'd have bought from Simply Games or similar and had the disc 2-3 days earlier than launch.
Yeah, but Twitch is heavily tilted towards PC titles and they only titels that really do well for consoles are on multiplat. Look at Destiny's numbers. It's usually always the top console game but it's out on what? 4 different platforms?
Woah, holy moly. Calm down.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Actually, out of 100 friends and I, 99 of us bought Halo 5 digitally; so my conclusion is that 9900% of Halo 5's sales must be digital!
Roufianos
Member
So the UK digital market is massive thanks to that guy and his 9 friends?
I love how he fails to realise that they're all part of the same demographic.
Personally I don't know anyone who's ever bought a game digitally. That's just my exoerience though and I'm not going to universalise it. Obviously some people did buy it digitally but only a minority.
Digital hasn't really taken off over here due to the pricing. Sometimes the games are £20 more than in the shops and you lose thf opportunity to trade them in. Sure Halo is cheaper than other titles but people just aren't in the habit of digital purchasing.
If it was a niche title then you'd expect a higher percentage of digital downloads but Halo has broad appeal and I suspect only core gamers are the only ones who buy digitally.
I love how he fails to realise that they're all part of the same demographic.
Personally I don't know anyone who's ever bought a game digitally. That's just my exoerience though and I'm not going to universalise it. Obviously some people did buy it digitally but only a minority.
Digital hasn't really taken off over here due to the pricing. Sometimes the games are £20 more than in the shops and you lose thf opportunity to trade them in. Sure Halo is cheaper than other titles but people just aren't in the habit of digital purchasing.
If it was a niche title then you'd expect a higher percentage of digital downloads but Halo has broad appeal and I suspect only core gamers are the only ones who buy digitally.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
lmao some people just don't understand what "failed" means in this thread.
I see lot of UK GAF buying it digital from US store. Because its cheaper than physical
Duxxy3
Member
I wouldn't bet on it.
On topic - For now I'm staying away from Halo 5 because I play Halo JUST for the campaign. From the little I read it sounds atrocious.
Palette Swap
Member
Week after COD, week before Star Wars Battlefront. That release slot is a kill zone.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
Why are digital games so much more expensive in the UK?
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
That's my take as well, anecdotally speaking, the majority of people I play with went digital (from a variety of stores), I bought my code from an online retailer who was undercutting the store on the console. There's never been a more divided marketplace, imo and Halo releasing has led to more people getting Xbox recently. It's all anecdotes though.
Outside of GTA there hasn't been much else to topple COD. Maybe Star Wars can but I doubt it.
Caayn
Member
And I would kill for a physical copy instead I got the digital one, thanks 343i. There are plenty of folks that want physical.
/anecdotal evidence.
Can Crusher
Banned
Halo 5 is clearly not as "anticipated" as other big games, no matter how much marketing MS tries to shove into it.
343 has utterly failed to give the franchise exciting new life. But sure, I bet it sold a million in digital sales first 24h in the UK alone.
343 has utterly failed to give the franchise exciting new life. But sure, I bet it sold a million in digital sales first 24h in the UK alone.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
The shops sell below RRP.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
Christ, who the hell is telling you that? It's not even close to atrocious. (but paying $60 JUST for a Halo campaign, any of them, would always be ridiculous to me)
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
So, I'm guessing we'll see the PC version sooner than expected.
Mike Works
Member
Shit man, Microsoft is doing gangbusters in your friendship group. Sony better hope VR takes off next year or else they may never be able to win back your friendship group.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
343 made a really good game Halo game.
Steverulez
Member
Ive no idea whats been said but even with some issues I can't see much in the way of "atrocious", reviews left me a bit skeptical and I thought it was great
Palette Swap
Member
Like the rest of Europe: RRP. Basically, publishers set a theoretical recommended price, retail undercuts that price by 20-30% while the publisher uses that RRP on online stores.
Really? When?
AmaterasuOni
Banned
I could make a bet. SW: The Force Awakens is most likely going to be the biggest movie ever. Only the movie's buzz will sell millions of Battlefront on holidays. SW is just another kind of consumerism hysteria, it affects everyone everywhere.
DudeWithNoName
Member
Yeah, thread title change if this is the case.
I've not bought physical discs in nearly a year.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
I see. I had no idea.
Ol No Bones
Banned
Totally anecdotal but all my friends went digital on this one. I wouldn't be surprised if more than usual went digital to play at midnight. We preloaded that bitch. There was big group for past halos that went to midnight launches at a brick and mortar store. If those people were smart they preloaded.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
Never mind all the good feedback from the vast majority of the reviews, I'm going to base my opinion on that one tweet that GAF clung onto last week.
Atrocious, lol.
This seems to be an on going problem. Some really ridiculous thread titles that bring out the shit posts.
UK GAF≠UK videogame buying market at large.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
It was released last Tuesday, you should check it out.
If they were smart, they would have gone with someone like Simply Games who would get it to you a couple of days before launch at least, assuming they had a decent price.
Man I looked on in envy as a bunch of people were playing MGS V 5 days early from them while I waited on my CE.
Why? NPD threads only track physical games as well and those numbers are more than valid. We can't start discrediting these things now just because Halo 5 is performing up to par in a certain region.
Bruno MB
Member
Tomb Raider sold about 100,000 units on Xbox 360 and 80,000 on PlayStation 3 in its week launch.
Fallout New Vegas (Xbox 360) 133,000 in its first 2 weeks.
travisbickle
Member
Someone must have done a franchise rise and fall chart?
A 5th game on a 3rd console, plus all the side games. There's not many franchises that get to this many games.
A 5th game on a 3rd console, plus all the side games. There's not many franchises that get to this many games.
Super_Cobra
Member
Halo 5 UK digital sales outsell ps4 globally.
KurtSloane
Banned
So suddenly Halo 5 is the game where most people bought it digitally? Would this be the first AAA game to go mostly digital?
More likely sounds like anecdotal information pushed as the norm.
More likely sounds like anecdotal information pushed as the norm.