I don't know. Either way, its clear October massively disappointed. PS4 was very likely down YOY, XB1 barely kept its footing, and Halo 5 MAY have sold less than 1 million physical in the US. Like I said, we did hear Halo 5 sold roughly 1 million digital, so that MAY be a saving grace, but I don't know at this point.
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NPD Sales Results for October 2015 [Up1: Xbox #1]
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I don't know. Either way, its clear October massively disappointed. PS4 was very likely down YOY, XB1 barely kept its footing, and Halo 5 MAY have sold less than 1 million physical in the US. Like I said, we did hear Halo 5 sold roughly 1 million digital, so that MAY be a saving grace, but I don't know at this point.
God damn, that's less than half the sales of the previous entry.
MCC must have killed the franchise cold.
I mean this is given. Previous Uncharted games didnt set charts on fire. So not too hard to beat and U4 will definitely have more hype than previous entries. Because the Naughty Dog name have gotten much bigger since TLOU.
On halo's case, they are already battling against biggest entertainment launch and what a cultural phenomena was that Halo 3 launch. On top of that new developer who did not have a great track record. Believe it or not but all this adds up. But I must say H5 is definitely one of the best Halo MP game I have played, so its sad the decline is huge.
Pretty sure it will chart but near the bottom.
Obliterator
Member
I hear ya just its crazy. Both AAA games released in October totally cratered
Yeah, I realize saying "five is plenty" sounds crazy. But AAA releases are frontloaded enough that there's a rhythm to all this madness. The first week is huge relative to follow-ups, except in cases of breakout hits. Games have tails (heh) but usually it's a steep drop after the first week or two.
Steverulez
Member
Both had broken games last year... Halo usually has something release each year even if its not specifically a brand new title.
theprodigy
Member
nah...everything else would have to crash and burn in December or XCX needs 500k minimum
sure would be nice if it did though!
Halo and Assassin's Creed are going down. But Destiny and Watch Dogs are taking their place. Everything's cyclical.
The fact that nobody gives a shit in this thread pretty much sums up why AC sales are down.
NOBODY GIVES A SHIT!
RespectThySole
Member
If Halo can't even break a million, Tomb Raider sales must be pitiful.
Ryng_Tolu's crusade for Splatoon outselling Halo 5 worldwide is looking more and more reasonable.
We got the sequel to Alan Wake after all!
However, yoshi is a played out franchise in an oversaturated genre, not to mention it's lukewarm reception. XCX is arguably a more important software pillar, and it shows due to the higher investment.
And shouldn't general trends not have a significant impact on chart placement? I suppose one could argue that given some "increase coefficient" of holiday sales, a game's sales is increased in terms of the number of systems it's on, thus giving an inherent advantage to multiplatform games, but that seems like overly soft and faulty math.
Maybe I'm just undervaluing yoshi a fuckton. It makes me curious what yoshi's numbers were, though.
Obliterator
Member
Oh I hear ya. Not everything is doom. November software sales will be amazing.
Just god damn is it crazy seeing those franchises just run out of steam like that
Sangetsu-II
Member
Did I miss anything? Just woke up.
Had a NPD dream where I tricked Phil Spencer with Sony's lame PR Spin to get him into developing a VR headset.
Had a NPD dream where I tricked Phil Spencer with Sony's lame PR Spin to get him into developing a VR headset.
I wager it will chart 5-9. You have Fallout, COD, SW:Battlefront, Halo, AC:S, some sport games and then Tomb Raider.
I think Halo 5 will have better legs, especially as people realize the game isn't broken, and is pretty good. But 343 better blow everyone's minds with Halo 6, or its game over.
DarthWalden
Banned
Yup which legit makes me sad, game is fantastic but it had no chance launching exclusively on xb1 the same day fallout launched.
Liabe Brave
Member
The digital won't mean much. Halo 4 sold more than three times as much when digital was already well established. It's gone up even since then I'm sure, but not anywhere near enough to make up for a 70% decline in retail.
Star Wars, Fallout, CoD, Madden, NBA, FIFA are all locks. Destiny, WWE and Assassin's Creed are on sale literally everywhere on Black Friday. Who knows what Halo will do. Hell, I wouldn't be shocked if GTAV randomly did another 300k+ considering it's 15 dollars everywhere.
If Tomb Raider makes it then it will be barely.
Obliterator
Member
TR has to be sub 200k unless it gets a crazy deal
Primethius
Banned
Halo 5 is likely above > 840k and below < 1000k
Good estimate is around ~940k. But nothing concrete so far.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Come next year we will see if GT going to join them or sales were low because of poor timing .
You shouldn't have come back, man, this thread is going nuclear any minute now.
On a more serious note, Cosmic and Harker both heavily hinted that Halo 5 was under 1 million.
CitizenCope
Member
Good on the consumers. I hope that is the reason. THE biggest blunder in my 40 yrs of gaming. This consumer could not resist and bought an XboxOne and H5 though. No regrats.
DarthWalden
Banned
I dont recall being given the option to buy halo 4 digitally when it launched.
The Mad Draklor
Member
XBO beat PS4 by a small margin (we don't know how large is the gap, yet).
XBO sold 305K.
Obliterator
Member
Did MS ever say that was product actually sold to consumers?
What the hell? Cosmic and Harker are as concrete source as any source can get, aside from Cream, of course. Some people are really having a hard time accepting this.
It starts adding up when one factors that they probably meant all tie-in content, from controllers to consoles to Live memberships and beyond, as some have suggested.
I think some people probably just don't know how legit they are.
Steverulez
Member
Well the PR included digital, hardware and global numbers... which NPD does not, even though Xbox One isn't very strong worldwide it'll add up in that time.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
NBA 2K, Madden, Minecraft, some family game, ROTR.
If around 600k is the cut-off point for this November like it was last November it won't chart though.
Sangetsu-II
Member
This is the one that annoys me and I really hope the lackluster sales won't directly impact CD. If there are lay offs that would be a tragedy.
That tag though :L
I do not think the bolded is really a true statement IMO.
It would be more valid to say that digital games are becoming well established this Gen..
Japanmanx3
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They were pulling in revenue from basically anything Halo branded... Not just the game.
And when was it said Halo 5 did a mil digitally????
Warm Machine
Member
Yeah it wasn't available that way. It was also the last physical game I bought. At that time I just started buying Games on Demand titles so had it been available that it how I would have gotten it.
Well, at least make sure you have your hazmat suit on, then.
i believe you are in the denial stage. you have no idea what ms counted to get to that figure because of how much spin there was
Baroquemantic
Member
Current gen only games have been releasing for a while now. Remasters will likely be here the whole gen and that's perfectly fine.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Nah ND name has just gotten bigger since then .
I can see UC4 staying flat but NA was not it's best region anyway .
Obliterator
Member
Tomb Raider isn't gonna chart at all I'm betting. At least if the cut off point is anywhere near last year
Liabe Brave
Member
Wow, I stand corrected then. That seems very odd for 2012.
If we assume excellent digital sales, then Halo 5 could potentially get to 40% of 4's sales rather then 30%.
lol that thing is going to sell like shit. But I guess they want a bit more out of Beyond since that release way too close to PS4 launch.
It's not all a waste of time and money, porting can help them come to terms with new hardware quicker like what Bethesda and Naughty Dog did.