RedAssedApe
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NPD Sales Results for October 2015 [Up1: Xbox #1]
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This being Microsoft's biggest franchise, that has got to sting.
I have a feeling Gears is going to drop in a similar fashion. Just transferring an IP to developers that have had zero involvement in it's original success kills a franchise fast.
Obliterator
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Pretty damn insane thing to look at. That decline is borderline unbelievable
Holy crapola
Is he just tweeting numbers from GAF in a fancy graph or does he have access to the actual NPD data?
Ghost Slayer
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Ouch
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Such a shame.
opticalmace
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xb1 304k
ps4 276k
from earlier in the thread, you'd have to dig. IIRC.
I would estimate the number but that bezel is going to make it annoying. Either way looks to be a bit over 800k. Big decline.
Cereal Enthusiast
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It's written at the top (in french). Physical only, one week for Halo 5, two for Halo 3 and three for the others.
Psycho_Mantis
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Halo 5 selling around the same as TLoU in NPD 0_0
Honestly, Halo 5's decline is more than a user base problem. I also don't buy the other shooters reason as Halo 4 and Reach were going up against COD at its prime.
Honestly, Halo 5's decline is more than a user base problem. I also don't buy the other shooters reason as Halo 4 and Reach were going up against COD at its prime.
translation above the graph :
Physical only
1 week for halo 5
2 weeks for halo 3
3 weeks for others
CaptainCook
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A shame if true, best halo in some time. Times are a changing I suppose.
It's already said on the graph in french: physical only, 1 week for Halo 5, 2 weeks for Halo 3, 3 weeks for the others
Zvonimir Boban
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It's a shame that people are missing out because Halo 5 is a fucking incredible game, honestly some of the most fun I've had gaming in years.
When I'm not being screwed by being placed in US servers which may as well be on the moon
How was the PS4 number calculated?
Both numbers are really damn low. Are people holding out for BF or is the age of gaming done?
Ah, not as bad then!
Halo 3 the monster. Not surprising though with the market at the time.
Cereal Enthusiast
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He's a journalist who has some sources (don't know for NPD though). He's on Gaf I don't want to talk for him but I can say that he's very reliable.
Jon Carter
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The PS4 sold less than 300k during a price drop month with a new bundle and a big release? Isn't that pretty damn bad?
It's not a userbase problem stop with that nonsense.
To be fair I believe the other Halo games had more days tracked. However still looking at a massive drop as sequel sales are more front loaded. I think the issue is Halo 4. Game turned many people away from the Halo franchise.
Wow Halo is really dad
Let us wait for November NPD maybe they get the other 2m sold copy there
What big release?
gundamkyoukai
Member
This is such a crazy drop even if you take into account the time of month they came out .
opticalmace
Member
ZHuge posted the combined xb1+ps4 number, so it was simple. I forget how they got 304k for xb1. I think there was some PR saying the % increase from last year or last month or something like that. CosmicQueso (if I'm spelling it right) also had a nod that xb1 outside ps4 by only a bit, so I think the numbers are correct.
I won't doubt whether he is reliable, not at all. But the source of the graph is unknown, it could very well be GAF. Especially given his earlier tweeted hardware number that was also posted a lot in this thread.
I don't get it. Can somebody polygon'ise this for me?
Black Republican
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Black Friday shall be interesting
PS4 taking evey month was getting boring anyways
thank god the bar charts are back
maquiladora
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I said wow.
So in other words it's a completely meaningless graph?
slavesnyder
Member
Last exit black friday, if you are generous.
After that we can move the thumb.
I have no real hope, but out of fairness...
What? It shows H5 had by far the worst opening, sales are extremely frontloaded.
Not really. Insiders have basically said around 20 percent is the high end for digital percentage. So you can bump the number up to a little over a million and it still looks bad relative to other games in the franchise.
Obliterator
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To be honest yes. For the market leader to be that low in its first official price cut month is pretty rough imo
BUT I and many others think its somewhat "artificially low" due to a large number of potential purchases going into the bundles in November.
November will answer a lot of questions on this months hardware for PS4
No?
Japanmanx3
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Hmm I wonder if someone is starting to regret this now
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=182173208
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=182173208
Not really meaningless but it's strange to do the graph the way he did because many will just look at the bars and ignore what is written above.
slavesnyder
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It's including pre-sales also. Not meaningless at all. Even if you double the number to represent week 2 and 3 it's awful.
gundamkyoukai
Member
I can really see this happen now .
Obliterator
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And has gigantic competition in COD, Fallout, and BF.
All games on that chart sold the majority of their first month copies in their first week.
Add about 20% for digital.
So no, the chart is very meaningful.
CaptainCook
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What's the Xbox one install base now? 10 million?
Yep, don't put numbers in a graph which you can't compare. He should of just listed the numbers and the differences between them.
Think your naive to believe that. Many other factors are more likely, such as greater competition, sour taste left by previous games and general franchise fatigue. H5 is one of the best Halo's made, its certainly one of the best MP fps on consoles. It'll have positive WOM to keep it going. And Gears is being made by one of the original leads, if its awesome it'll be fine, the series hasnt diminished due to quality or broken game releases. The spin off to Gears was perhaps a mistake though, I can see that impacting sales, not by much though.