aygomyownroad
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I haven't bought it. Too close to Fallout 4 for me, and after Halo 4 I will wait for it in a sale
Halo 5 sales in the UK [Excludes digital sales]
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Wat? where do you read that? it says in 2014 it was already 34% who went digital. according to that graph 2015 should be somewhere around 50%
Triggerhappytel
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The latter is not true at all: for example, Halo 2 launched just after GTA San Andreas. Halo 3 launched just before COD4.
All that's happened is Halo 5 is the biggest selling game of the week but has still sold less than all of its predecessors since the original game.
Simply Sami
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No it won't.
Lots of people still play it. Just because you and a few people on GAF don't like it doesn't mean the rest of the world does. It's the most played game on PSN and Xbox live alongside GTA, I bet.
I thought Bungie had patched that?
Ol No Bones
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Aw ok didn't know that. Very cool.
Katana_Strikes
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I'd actually say the contrary. The install bases will be far bigger and by what I've seen and heard (I've long stopped playing) they put a lot right with TTK expansion. If Bungie and marketing plays it right, Destiny 2 could be something else and be even bigger.
JumPeRJumPzZ
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Rest of Europe is probably even lower...
Not really surprising. A close friend already sold the game.
Not really surprising. A close friend already sold the game.
igordennis
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Twitch is very specific in the type of games that are successful in the streaming scene. Destiny for example was a lot lower shortly after launch as well but since then it has managed to craft a niche of a few streamers that make a living out of it streaming Destiny (goth, krafty, lauren, etc). These are the kind of streamers that a game needs to have to be "healthy" on twitch. Its quite rare for this to happen since becoming big on twitch is mostly luck. Seems like Destiny opened up opportunities for a few people to take this role and it remains to be seen if Halo 5 will manage to do the same. I kind of doubt it though.
Dash_Riprock
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With CoD and BF coming this would be inevitable even if it had been a sales juggernaut.
The real question is which of the 3 games will people still be playing into January and beyond...
KurtSloane
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It's amazing how wrong you are, outstandingly so.
Numbers have gone up in terms of sales and player count has increased and holds steady.
Destiny 2 will likely be bigger, if not just as big.
Really? Seemed like far more people commented on sim racing not being a big genre in the U.S..
Anyway, thread title does need to be change if it did better than the first Halo in the U.K.. Still doesn't change the fact that people expected it to do better though.
SmartWaffles
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Keep in mind it launches on a much smaller console base and a significantly bigger digital sale ratio, we are not seeing a full picture here.
Give War A Chance
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Confused if this is COMPLETE sales, or just stand alone, physical copies.
Either way, with the comparisons to others all being the same style of sales, it is incredible that it could be the lowest selling of the franchise.
I'm interested to see if Microsoft comes out and talks up how big the release was in the US. I feel like they always have for Halo, so if they don't for this one, it is not good news.
Either way, with the comparisons to others all being the same style of sales, it is incredible that it could be the lowest selling of the franchise.
I'm interested to see if Microsoft comes out and talks up how big the release was in the US. I feel like they always have for Halo, so if they don't for this one, it is not good news.
Not too surprising, really. Launching a week apart from Black Ops 3 showed a lot of hubris, even for Microsoft.
That player base has moved on to other games.
I'm not sure how much MCC really affected the equation here; our memories tend to be notoriously short.
The real question is how many consoles were sold in the Halo launch window. If it can't even push hardware at this point, they might as well Killzone the franchise and have that gifted team at 343 do something else.
That player base has moved on to other games.
I'm not sure how much MCC really affected the equation here; our memories tend to be notoriously short.
The real question is how many consoles were sold in the Halo launch window. If it can't even push hardware at this point, they might as well Killzone the franchise and have that gifted team at 343 do something else.
justgames7604
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sales cant go down ahah, of course the sales went up.
thekonamicode
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Anecdotal evidence, but I run a small chain of indie gamestores in the states and it's our worst selling Halo launch ever. We've been in business since 1994.
Ill wait for more info but
Halo 5 does not seem to have the same momentum that mainline Halo games used to have, even Reach had more momentum. Halo 4 and MCC did not do it favours
Halo used to have a big marketing push here, Master Chief cardboard cutouts, commercials, soda drinks with Halo logo, posters everywhere, yet Halo 5 is just a game on a shelf, no different than Syndicate, Evolve, Pro Evo etc. From what i played of H5, i though the MP was really good
Who knows, maybe in other parts of the world that same heavy push that Halo always got is still present. But the title seems to have almost no momentum and its just another game, which a mainline Halo should not be considering the pedigree
Halo 5 does not seem to have the same momentum that mainline Halo games used to have, even Reach had more momentum. Halo 4 and MCC did not do it favours
Halo used to have a big marketing push here, Master Chief cardboard cutouts, commercials, soda drinks with Halo logo, posters everywhere, yet Halo 5 is just a game on a shelf, no different than Syndicate, Evolve, Pro Evo etc. From what i played of H5, i though the MP was really good
Who knows, maybe in other parts of the world that same heavy push that Halo always got is still present. But the title seems to have almost no momentum and its just another game, which a mainline Halo should not be considering the pedigree
Surprise, surprise...what did people expect?
The franchise has been around for 15 years now and not much has changed.
Even COD is in decline though they were changing scenarios over the last 15 years at least 3 times.
I have played every Halo game until 5 and guess what - people get bored with doing the same stuff over and over and from what I've been hearing Halo 5 is great but it's also more of the same.
FPS games have simply been played to death last gen and folks are moving on. Who would have thought...
The franchise has been around for 15 years now and not much has changed.
Even COD is in decline though they were changing scenarios over the last 15 years at least 3 times.
I have played every Halo game until 5 and guess what - people get bored with doing the same stuff over and over and from what I've been hearing Halo 5 is great but it's also more of the same.
FPS games have simply been played to death last gen and folks are moving on. Who would have thought...
It's like I'm on a merry go round. The thread ain't that long. Read through it a little.
Kenzodielocke
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Read the thread please. And others that claim the same should do that too.
I'm in the UK, so you can give me more credit. I bought a digital copy off the US store. Was cheaper than retail, and my brother gets a copy to use on his Xbox by default.
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JoJo UK
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I'm not sure if it's already been asked/answered but does anyone know who digital sales would be counted? I assume it's by the store they were bought from, not the location where the sale was made, ie. someone in the UK buying from the the US store would class as a US purchase?
I know 1 person that bought H5 physically, everyone elase I know bought digitally and most from the US store in order to save a few quid. Also thinking about it this was also the first Halo where I only needed to buy one copy for my son and I. In saying that I'm not sure if that would have a massive effect on sales as I dn't think many other people are doing the whole 'set an XB1 as home console and signing into another' thing.
I know 1 person that bought H5 physically, everyone elase I know bought digitally and most from the US store in order to save a few quid. Also thinking about it this was also the first Halo where I only needed to buy one copy for my son and I. In saying that I'm not sure if that would have a massive effect on sales as I dn't think many other people are doing the whole 'set an XB1 as home console and signing into another' thing.
Palette Swap
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That's exactly the stake here. UK is basically the second biggest market for Xbox outside of North America, so if a flagship title sees a significant drop there, it means Xbox is even more NA-centric than before. - barring a similar drop in NA, which I don't expect.
Simply Sami
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Did you miss all the adverts?
The question is how many people in the UK purchase digitally, and at that from XBL marketplaces outside the UK due to the insane local digital prices. Personally I bought it from the US so I'm not counted for UK.
justgames7604
Member
damn, that's rough.
KurtSloane
Banned
Of course not, sorry should have been clearer, TTK sales where very goid, the didn't flop as would be expected based on the poster I quoted.
Of course. Blops3 and Battlefront will steal some players and potential buyers.
Where's that infamous graph of the player count falling drastically for Halo 4 after Blops II came out? Could be a repeat situation.
Ol No Bones
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Oh shit! Your friend sold it! Halo really is dad..
Oh totally, I do that all the time on PS4 as well. But then, even if digital sales were counted, we wouldn't be counted in UK numbers.
digoutyoursoul
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Concern trolling getting out of hand
Triggerhappytel
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Keep in mind that the first half of your comment is false and the second has already been addressed dozens of times.
-MD-
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I actually haven't seen a single one outside of the last couple UFC events being sponsored by Halo 5.
That is no argument. That is MS kind of spinnig the logic.
Even if we keep that in mind,Halo 5 still doesn't seem to sell consoles in UK.
Auto-Reply
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It's the first Halo that didn't create any buzz in my circle of friends (it's a small circle so it doesn't say much for the overall situation).
Just by looking at gaf threads it seem less in the spotlight than previous installments here though I wouldn't be surprised if my memory is playing tricks on me.
It's like "another episode of a Halo themed game has come out" withouth splitscreen and more build for the pro-mp player base than usual. It's not the big next game, the big 5, the long awaited sequel everyone was anxiously waiting for. That's how it feels like at the moment.
Just by looking at gaf threads it seem less in the spotlight than previous installments here though I wouldn't be surprised if my memory is playing tricks on me.
It's like "another episode of a Halo themed game has come out" withouth splitscreen and more build for the pro-mp player base than usual. It's not the big next game, the big 5, the long awaited sequel everyone was anxiously waiting for. That's how it feels like at the moment.
A touch dramatic to say that no? It's just 1 game.... If every title sells less here now then fair enough but if not...
How could you say that? Look at this awesome exposure during the launch day in Norway:
This site even scored the game 9/10.
ethomaz
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If you saw the TTK success then you will know it is the opposite... Destiny will go up.
Hmmm might as well, it is a good game, might as well let as many people as possible get it
Katana_Strikes
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XBone sales in the UK should be a little higher than 360 sales at the same time frame (it took 360 another 6 months to hit 2m which is where the XBone should be now or thereabouts) when Halo 3 launched. Yes, these don't include digital but even if you say digital at the very most is 50% of retail here, you are still looking at (outside of the original Halo) the lowest selling mainline Halo game ever by quite a margin.
Blackleg-sanji1
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People yelling concern trolling is getting out of hand! It happened in the fallout 4 screenshot thread as well. Any amount of criticism,bad talk is now shitposting/concern trolling for these big franchises apparently
ArchedThunder
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The fact that MS hasn't made a comment about the game's sales makes me think it may have underperformed worldwide. I kinda fear for the population, the anemic list of gametypes, the aiming system that many are having issues with and then CoD and BF being right on the horizon makes me think the game could have a bumpy holiday.