So Halo 5 has been out for a little more than a year now. I was wondering how its sales numbers stacked up against past Halo games this far into its life span. Has anyone heard anything about Halo 5 sales? Thanks!
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Before someone inevitably shows up to compare it to Halo 3’s sales numbers, I’m just going to preemptively make two points about that:
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EVERYONE knows Halo 3 is the best selling Halo game ever. By a mile. It’s no secret. Everyone and their mama and her mama had a copy of Halo 3.
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Don’t compare the sales number between a game that has been out for 1 year verses a game that has been out for over 9 years. Compare the year 1 sales of Halo 5 and the year 1 sales of Halo 3 … and, spoiler alert, Halo 3 still wins by a couple million and no one should be surprised.
That said, Halo 5 has sold over 5 million copies making a crap ton of money. Just not as much as Halo used to. It’s somewhere around CE numbers which, considering CE didn’t have online multiplayer, is not that great (though at the time, not a lot of games did, so I don’t know if that’s a fair comparison, but for a mainline Halo title [not a spin-off] that’s a little low). But it was still a financially successful game in that it turned a serious profit.
Simplest way to put it is that it’s sold enough for Microsoft and 343 to justify producing more games under the Halo franchise.
Week one sales = $400,000,000. I understood that number to include physical copies only. Someone please correct me if you know otherwise. If it is only physical copies, then assuming average price to be only slightly higher than $60 (accounting for limited editions) then you’re looking at somewhere around six million. Again, assuming that digital copies are not accounted for in these numbers, I would speculate much higher sales than the commonly reported figure. I spent launch night with two of my Halo 4 buddies and both of them went digital. And that’s the end of my wild speculation.
The game is COD Infinite Warfare with a Halo Texture Pack like in Minecraft. They put in stupid RNG loot boxes and microtransactions that no one wants to pay for because it is already a $80 game. The Campaign is not good neither the multiplayer.
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> The game is COD Infinite Warfare with a Halo Texture Pack like in Minecraft. They put in stupid RNG loot boxes and microtransactions that no one wants to pay for because it is already a $80 game. The Campaign is not good neither the multiplayer.
Please don’t revive old topics thanks, particularly when you have nothing of value to add.