Well I see 32% in 2014 for PC and consoles... Coming from 21% in 2013. So I think 40-50% in 2015 is possible...
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Halo 5 sales in the UK [Excludes digital sales]
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Well I see 32% in 2014 for PC and consoles... Coming from 21% in 2013. So I think 40-50% in 2015 is possible...
Thanks for finding that. I was looking for the survey. Also yeah digital game sales for example in Germany are even lower on consoles. Which shouldn't surprise anyone considering the prices they ask for on the digital stores.
Ivory Samoan
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Halo 4 was quite a while ago now, digital sale numbers have skyrocketed since 2012.
I have a feeling Halo 5 will have pretty long sales legs with the MP being so strong, and Xmas a few months away.
Digital in the UK was the most expensive easy to buy it (45 vs 39 in multiple stores) Digital on consoles isn't a huge % in the UK due to higj digital prices and low retail.
You don't think the fact that the PC is pretty much 100% digital skews those figures?
Dude stop trying to use anecdotal evidence it's not working.
I wonder what U.S. sales were like as someone said its been a week and no PR statement so ms may be unsatisfied with its performance
You could get halo for £39.99 and cheaper online for launch.
Obviously 10 is far from being a reliable data set as there's no chance of it outselling physical by 900%, but as from for example the poster above. 20% is far too low. There's no way 1/5 are buying digitally.
hooijdonk17
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Congratulations MS, you turned your best franchise into something even I can't give a shit about.
HALO 2 was on the OG Xbox. I doubt it's install base. Install base never stopped Halo before because it shifts consoles if needed and/or has a high attach rate.
This is much more likely to be Halo 4 failing to be "sticky" with majority for MP, a narrative that now excludes those that haven't bothered with EU (they may a big mistake with this IMHO) and lingering effects of MCC.
If word of mouth on MP is good enough it might improve but the franchise took a big it with 4 and MCC.
I was always there day one for the SP which I enjoyed in its cliched Science Fantasy way and then moving on to coop/MP.
Not so with 5. I have no interest in all the blue team, Locke whatever stuff and I've found the way the narrative has gone boring now, over focusing on Spartans, politics and over aggrandising its C grade SF story.
Coop with buddies is gone and while MP is good the whole isn't enough to make me feel I need the game enough to get an XB1.
I've tried it at s friends and dropped SP as it just interest me now. MP I thought was very good particularly at 60fps and that's what they need to focus on short term I think.
Personally though I think the whole narrative approach needs s major rethink and reboot.
After Halo 3 I think many (myself certainly) thought we were going to see. New cycle with new enemies, a new place in deep space and a sense of a soft reboot). Instead Halo 4 started with more covenant (yawn) introduced new foes who were dull and it turned out I needed to read books to even get what they were after (no thanks) and then it screwed the pooch being overly self referential. MP that didn't feel like the Halo MP I wanted really was the cherry on top.
Halo 4 wasn't bad as such, it was very solid really. But it wasn't what I (and I think many) wanted. MCC then eroded confidence in 343 to deliver robust code. When Halo 5 marketing kicked off it felt like it was for the hardcore into the EU and not for someone like me who only plays the games.
In fact outside the MP that's how I would sum up H5 at this point. Designed for the smaller EU hardcore not the larger games only demographic.
Pretty sure it's a lot higher this year. Cannot find the link, but for ex The witcher 3 digital made %50 sales.
Both franchises are past their prime in terms of hype and are coming after the two most broken games the industry has ever seen. I don't think the problem is the UK.
PdotMichael
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The Star Wars of the video game industry indeed.
Newtype-001
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You can buy it wayy cheaper online. Just stop.
Look on site 17. It says Console is 9% while PC is 58%.
That includes PC though
Well I almost never traded in my games. And if I did I just got about 10 Euro in average. So I just go with the digital games and save those 10 Euro from the beginning
Bitch Pudding
Member
So you say it's legit to compare Halo 5 to other games which have recently been released on XBOX One. And I for one do not get how Halo 5 was not able to beat Sony-marketed Destiny... That's just bad.
Chobel
Member
LOL! You really need to update you info. Digital is 20% at best (around time of release).
A game with PC/Steam/GOG versions.
Interfectum
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Does that Witcher number include PC?
Wouldn't the majority of those Witcher sales be on pc digital, where prices are far better than on PSN/XBL?
reptilescorpio
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TW3 digital wasn't 50% split on consoles, you're thinking of PC if anything.
Got it. But then the report also says, that the digital trend was starting in other countries way earlier and is grower way stronger than it is in Germany.
I bought it for £16 brand new, digitally. It's not UK region based, which would skew these figures, but personally I don't know why people are buying physical this gen.
Yeah, but that factors in PC which is at like 92% digital sales. That skews the numbers.
It was 50% of revenue, and that was mainly due to so many sales happening on their own digital platform gog.com, where they get 100% of the profit.
darkinstinct
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According to TrueAchievements it's sold about triple of Forza Motorsport 6 so far. So in the 3 million range worldwide for the first week. That's not bad but Halo 4 of course sold three million on the first day. I'm sure a lot of people were sceptical after Halo 4 if Halo 5 would be any good so lower sales are expected, they'll pick up in the next week due to good word of mouth.
cr_blah_blah
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Also NPD tracked digital vs physical and released a chart earlier this year pertaining to previous years. Note that digital includes DLC, mobile/social games, subscriptions, and full digital game downloads. And given all those it still barely surpassed physical game disc purchases in the US. Unless digital is taking off at an unprecedented adoption rate in the UK, pretending Halo 5 is going to double up seems pretty absurd. Sorry 900%ers.
Yep.
Chobel
Member
Revenue, not copies. And it includes PC.
Orniletter
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The dude is insane. I don't think there has ever even been a full price non-PC game that made even 50% of it's total sales digitally.
The most impressive results I can remember (and we have solid numbers on) are probably Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Monster Hunter 4 (I think both did around 15-25%).
But thats in Japan. And on a handheld.
Hehe whoops %50 of revenue. My b. Thanks for link.
WordsintheWater
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That doesn't sound good. I find it weird MS hasn't said anything about sales numbers here in the US.
Well to begin Witcher 3 had 25% across all 3 platforms digitally. So how about you, or anyone else for that matter, provide evidence, rather than put LOL like a child.
I'd also speculate that the digital split for this will be much higher based on the nature of the original concept for the XB1, with it being first party and not being priced at £55 on the store, like every other game is.
I'd say it had similar numbers to Halo 2 in that list.
They are, all over europe.
10€ - 20€ more expensive than retail most of the time.
Yeah that's why i said 25-30% at most. No way it's close to 50% with how it's priced
Backfoggen
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As an Xbox owner and Halo good finder Halo 5 doesn't interest me at all. I will play it at some point, just not now.
That 25% is likely dominated by PC sales, which is usually 70-90% digital. I don't think you can extrapolate that for Halo 5.
Because 3/4 of the people buying games still probably know sod-all about dubious key-seller sites or region-switched accounts on their consoles.
Since one of Witcher 3's platforms is PC, I have massive doubts the digital share on consoles was near 20% up to when those numers were released, honestly.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Yes; it's a bit of a spurious headline considering we don't have data for the original game, but that still makes it the lowest selling mainline game from the franchise in ~14 years. And although digital is gaining more and more ground, I think analysts still peg it around 20-25% copies sold for the biggest of releases. And I imagine they're mostly referencing North America when they say that, as certainly here in Europe we get shafted on digital pricing.
Interfectum
Member
That 25% includes PC. That skews the percentage up.
Dudes going full nelson
secondspace
Member
They generally are, but a few games release at around the same price as retail. This has been in that ball park.
On psn for sure. £50 for new games which is about $75-80.
Edit: Just checked, actually most new releases are £55.
GarciaHotspur
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360 install base for Halo 3 was approximatively the same as Xbox One istall base for Halo 5.
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