Never. I don't have GT 1 and 2 launch sales, but Gran Turismo 3 opened better than GT 4 and 5 with 722k (including bundle).
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NPD Sales Results for August 2015 [PS4 #1 HW/SW, 7M Amiibos LTD, 600K LTD Splatoon]
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Never. I don't have GT 1 and 2 launch sales, but Gran Turismo 3 opened better than GT 4 and 5 with 722k (including bundle).
Yep. Fallout 4 won't eat into it's sales nearly as much as Black Ops3/Battlefront. People excited for Halo itself will pick it up early, but once the competition comes out........well, most people aren't going to plunk down $100 - $180 to have Halo, BO3 and Battlefield or 2 out of those 3
I have a problem, I have all 3 pre-ordered
The game was broken. >600k is more than it deserved in that state.
More than 1 million for 2014 in NPD it's a "pretty big disappointment" ?
MS should have released Halo 5 in early October. Even if it turns out to be the best Halo game ever its sales will be impacted by those other 3 games. They are all potentially 1+ million sellers. Add to that TR and they will cannibalize each other's sales. People do not have limitless income.
I really wish you wouldn't put words into my mouth.
A. I never predicted "massive" sales for the game. More in line with what ODST did.
B. I've never used MCC to prove that Halo 5 will sell poorly.
C. I've said the opposite as I expect Halo 5 to sell extremely well.
D. I consider MCC's debut disappointing for reasons I've already outlined above.
Huh? Where did you get that million figure?
Right. The broken multiplayer definitely hurt sales.
Obliterator
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More likely they all do 2+ million November. COD will be like 6 million or more or something crazy. Early October would have been a mich better launch date. Give the game some room to breath.
I bet UC4 outsells Halo 5 globally in the long run though
Usually I would say yes. He has some sort of quality, a rugged wild sexyness to him but that picture you're sporting. One of the few that just makes him look bad :/ Perhaps the sunglasses?
EDIT: ahh he is to thin! That's it.
creamsugar.
I don't think so, Advanced Warfare sold 4.7 million last year... i see a Zhuge tweet where he said the Black Ops III pre orders was bigger... can you confirmed Zhuge?
Maximilian Kolbe
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Don't underestimated the consumer at holiday time.
KyanMehwulfe
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GTA V still in the Top 5 every month it seems....
must be, what, 60m now? if we ever get a DLC expansion pack, and then the first holidays where the game is more heavily discounted, probably gonna push 70m on current gen
then, GTA SA has got, what, an extra 5m or more just from cheap iOS and PS2 to PS3/Steam port sales... seems like it grew over 5m LTD over the last 5 years or so, mostly because of $5 ports or whatever I suppose
so eventually, with at least ports 5 years from now, GTA V should easily pass 75m if it doesn't just purely as a current-gen title
must be, what, 60m now? if we ever get a DLC expansion pack, and then the first holidays where the game is more heavily discounted, probably gonna push 70m on current gen
then, GTA SA has got, what, an extra 5m or more just from cheap iOS and PS2 to PS3/Steam port sales... seems like it grew over 5m LTD over the last 5 years or so, mostly because of $5 ports or whatever I suppose
so eventually, with at least ports 5 years from now, GTA V should easily pass 75m if it doesn't just purely as a current-gen title
Speaking of gran turismo, i'm still shocked with how much it sales.
Growing up here in southern california none of my friends would ever talk about nascar, f1, or anything racing. It was mostly basketball (lakers), football and other sports.
So when you tell me a car game can peak at around 10 million in sales it just blows my mind lol.
I guess it's just a different culture. Racing must be huge across europe.
Honestly the way it sells makes me want to check it out even though im not that into cars lol.
Growing up here in southern california none of my friends would ever talk about nascar, f1, or anything racing. It was mostly basketball (lakers), football and other sports.
So when you tell me a car game can peak at around 10 million in sales it just blows my mind lol.
I guess it's just a different culture. Racing must be huge across europe.
Honestly the way it sells makes me want to check it out even though im not that into cars lol.
Obliterator
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It will dwarf AW. 6 million is a conservative estimate imo
statham
Member
agree with this, MS has too many games this fall.
Advanced Warfare pre-orders was bigger than Ghosts too according to Activision.
CoD entered in a downward spiral, maybe the Black Ops name can stop that.
I didn't really pay attention to COD sales last year, but that seems super low compared to where the series was 2-3 years ago. What was Ghosts' debut?
He is saying it sold over a million in 2014, not just opening month.
Welfare
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>660k in November. Did enough to surpass 1 million in December.
Obliterator
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Ghost was 6 million
54 million shipped until june.
Banjo-Kazooie
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It wasn't free lol why do people keep saying this.
Oh yeah. I misread his first post. I see it now.
Many will buy black ops 3 for Zombies alone.
Ghosts sales were somewhat mediocre for a Call of Duty game.
I think it will be higher than that. The Steam version is just shy of 3M now and it has more or less never been on sale. I think the PC version alone will hit 10M within the next 3-4 years, similar to what we saw with Skyrim.
Sho_Nuff82
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ODST was an expansion of the actually most popular Halo game + a new and well received multiplayer mode + a map pack for Halo 3, which was still one of the top played games on XBL.
MCC despite its problems is still one of the fastest selling Remakes on console. There is simply no precedent to suggest it could have done better.
The Mad Draklor
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Hopefully, Lost Song will do well, too.
I feel that you should present the data as a bar graph, not a line graph.
Obliterator
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No question. Hence 6 million being my conservative estimate. It'll likely open a decent bit bigger than that.
The competition with Halo 5 and Battlefront can hurt launch sales in some level.
Whilst this does show a decline in COD sales.
It's important to keep in mind this doesn't include digital sales which have been growing with each release.
How does MCC sales compare to that of past Halo's? I know it's not directly comparable because this it's a set of Remasters rather than a new release, but the value proposition was certainly very high.
Obliterator
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Doubt it. The Treyarch / Black Ops names are too strong. COD fans may be "mass market" but they are hella educated on the product. This is CODs last hurrah imo
Welfare
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True, but I think the name of Black Ops alone will do a lot for initial sales. A whole bunch of people are still on the 360 and PS3 just playing the Black Ops games that will make the jump for a next gen sequel.
Maybe, but i prefer those graphs. xD
That's true, would be coll know some CoD numbers with digital...
Cornbread78
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Hopefully, since it is getting a physical release this time as well. It won't chart, but hopefully, sells good. If nothing else more people should watch the first 15 episodes of the anime yo understand the backstory, lol
I don't see why ODST is a high profile release but a Halo 2 remake isn't. Most fans consider it the best in the series. Firefight was neat but didn't have any matchmaking. The campaign was a short spinoff. The new map pack was, well, a map pack.
Papacheeks
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Yea, I'll take an avatar bet. And to be clear we are talking retail not bundles.
And we are talking US, and how long for sales? As in how long do we measure sales for each? 1 Month from release?
Obliterator
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The Black Ops brand is a monster.
I mean in NPD in this month in 2015 Black Ops on last gen outsold combined AW sales for the month and also Batman on curremt gen which is only 2 months old.
Think about that. Crazy
Dreadx_Jecht
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I remember some people swearing that the Xbox had this month on lock, a forgone conclusion.
lol
yeah, I think Black Ops it's a powerful name for at least go back at Ghosts level. But I'm feeling that people are getting tired of Call of Duty.
OSDT it's a new game, Halo 2 don't.
That's true, though, will never top the crazy level of Modern Warfare 3... the sales of this game was really unbelievable...