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Halo 5: Guardians Smashes Record with Biggest Halo Launch (games/hardware) in History
- Thread starter Steverulez
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Halo 5 is rated T.
Read the PR again. It says games AND hardware.
Collateral22
Member
Tomb raider is not exclusive either. Exclusive is something like Halo or Uncharted or Bloodborne or Sunset Overdrive.
Ol No Bones
Banned
Lol. Do you know how war zone even works? Just because you pick up a card doesn't even mean you can use it in a match. Warzone works fine. If you don't like the system arena works great too and you can earn credits for cards as well. You can earn a damn gold pack every 3-4 matches. Even if you decide to to buy packs till you get every card you must increase your req level in a match and while spawning with a sniper or rockets is useful most inexperienced players are gonna die and lose them anyway. Tanks and banshees aren't too hard to kill if your team puts pressure on them. It just works. I wont spend a dime and I will get DLC free. I also have never felt at a disadvantage playing war zone and I am just a little above average player. I don't think you have played it and you are bitching based on what you have read.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Come on now, that's nowhere even remotely close to being true. All it means is each new mainstream exclusive has a legitimate shot to become the new fastest selling, but it is by no means a guarantee like you make it out to appear.
Primethius
Banned
He's saying that MS positions it as an exclusive. They do with Tomb Raider (well, it is timed, so true enough to a degree).
Truth be told, I'm not sure if Titanfall counts or not.
You should be eating crow, That statement they could be 22% instead of 20%, It's all PR spin since they want to brand to show that it's as healthy as ever. I wish they would release exact numbers especially for digital but no company really does that.
You are proving exactly what was said in the UK thread but you are trying to pretend that everyone else is wrong.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Anyone else see the words and it just sounds like they are playing some incredible word games to make it sound much better then it might be.
Including hardware in the revenue equation? Best first party attach rate? Number of streams going on?
Why can't they just say, " we sold 2.3 mill copies week 1, it is awesome! ". These kind of word games makes me think the overall sales are much lower so they found different avenues to make the overall accomplishment sound historic.
Including hardware in the revenue equation? Best first party attach rate? Number of streams going on?
Why can't they just say, " we sold 2.3 mill copies week 1, it is awesome! ". These kind of word games makes me think the overall sales are much lower so they found different avenues to make the overall accomplishment sound historic.
Cosmetic unlockables ≠ gameplay affecting shit
Since the REQ packs are priced fairly and subsidize free DLC, I have no problem with them. It's much milder than some other MP games.
Thats an assumption that it means controller. Its reasonable to assume but lets not take it as fact. To me it sounds like game copy + console.
For comparison
Halo 3 '2007' made $170 million in first day US sales and $300 million in worldwide first week sales. In the U.S., Halo 3 sold 3.3 million copies in its first 12 days on sale. On January 3, 2008, Microsoft announced that Halo 3 has sold 8.1 million copies. According to Microsoft, Halo 3 had sold 14.5 million copies as of 2012.
Reach made $200 million in first day sales, It sold 4.7 million units by September 2011, one year later.
Halo 4 made $220 million worldwide in first day sales. Best selling Halo game in the US during launch year.
Halo 3 '2007' made $170 million in first day US sales and $300 million in worldwide first week sales. In the U.S., Halo 3 sold 3.3 million copies in its first 12 days on sale. On January 3, 2008, Microsoft announced that Halo 3 has sold 8.1 million copies. According to Microsoft, Halo 3 had sold 14.5 million copies as of 2012.
Reach made $200 million in first day sales, It sold 4.7 million units by September 2011, one year later.
Halo 4 made $220 million worldwide in first day sales. Best selling Halo game in the US during launch year.
It's because they sequestered it to one mode in particular, so it's easy for traditional halo fans to ignore.
They somehow think that honest and simple number would be less impressive than their transparent efforts to contort reality into a spectacle of hype with an empty center.
Understanding that the PR spin is not only including Halo 5 copies sold, it is still very telling that the Franchise did good after what happened with Halo MCC.
I also think that the PR spin also helps as a marketing tool, I mean, someone outside of forums such as GAF, will see the news as "Best Halo release ever" and feel compelled of buying halo 5 in the holidays.
I also think that the PR spin also helps as a marketing tool, I mean, someone outside of forums such as GAF, will see the news as "Best Halo release ever" and feel compelled of buying halo 5 in the holidays.
Reckheim
Member
pretty sure TR is published by square enix.
They did the same for Halo 4 and it sold 3 million it first week I think. MS doesn't give sales numbers
Well said.
Not to mention that the controllers were out 3 weeks (?) before Halo 5 release? Why would they include those 3 weeks of sales in the 4th week?
TheRealTalker
Banned
why not tell us the copies
saying the biggest launch can mean anything
saying the biggest launch can mean anything
Triggerhappytel
Member
Man, I had to read over that PR piece a few times to make sense of. Absolute first class spin there. A+
Yeah....this-
kinda reeks of desperation. Shoulda left it out.
Streaming is huge now. It wouldn't make sense to leave it out of a pr release.
Good point
Where did you get 3 million?
Not the XB version.
StrongBlackVine
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A bunch of words that tell us nothing. Whoever wrote that should get a raise though. Some of the best PR spin I have ever seen.
You were probably just unlucky, or had your positioning wrong. Some fucking tank was spawn camping one of our bases in one match I had, and it took long enough to take it out because he kept moving in and out of these rocks. Shortly after two more tanks showed up, and that shit absolutely sucked.
Vehicles and power weapons are not just useful against other spartans either, but bosses as well. I watched a dude essentially steal a boss kill rocking up with a rocket launcher and dishing out mass damage. I have like 15 hours in to the MP and have barely unlocked many of the seriously potent power weapon cards.
And yes, of course I care about collecting cosmetics, making my character look awesome, getting the best weapons, unlocks, emblems etc. That's sort of one of the key incentives to these types of games no? The thing that made Call of Duty so popular in the first place.
I'm pretty convinced this is a forum for people who hate games and want to see them fail.
"I need those numbers so I can use them to help strengthen my argument that Halo is dying and should be dead!!! WHY DON'T YOU RELEASE THE NUMBERS!"
You all sound like Republicans wanting Obama's birth certificate.
Streaming maybe huge but it's not huge for halo 5 on twitch
It's like people didn't see through the PR statement in the OP or just read the thread titled and commented, unreal
Chartzzzz
MaulerX
Member
That's what it sounds like to me. Someone buying a Halo 5 themed console obviously meant to spend their money on satisfying their Halo geekness.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
When they say "biggest Halo launch", they don't just mean the game do they? Probably includes the Halo themed controllers and systems.
PR did a great job with this.
PR did a great job with this.
Okay, fair enough about the weapons.
But you think that spending hundreds of hours to unlock cosmetic armor and visors is a viable life expenditure?
Hah, I burned my tongue with hot coffee.
DarthWalden
Banned
Why can't people just say "Congratulations on the awesome sales" and move on?
Why do you have to know 100% of the sales details to know if did good? Did they play on PR a bit sure, but it doesn't change the fact they made a ton of money and the game is a success, just say congrats and move on holy hell.
Why do you have to know 100% of the sales details to know if did good? Did they play on PR a bit sure, but it doesn't change the fact they made a ton of money and the game is a success, just say congrats and move on holy hell.
Primethius
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Nah, I don't think that was the narrative at all. The narrative was more like, the franchise had a huge decline from past titles.
Something, mind you, we absolutely cannot confirm or deny in relation to the US/WW with this PR.