August 2012 NPD: THQ's Last Stand

[CorruptedDragon]

your crazy it was at least 13 people

No, I actually owned 7 Xbox's myself, which is why there were 13 operational units, but only 7 actual owners.

[Indy_aka_Rex]

I would think with a higher install base it would do better, anyone know how many more people have the 360 from when halo 3 came out??

There is no guarantee that a higher install base = higher sales. After a certain number of units sold, a greater amount of customers more or less means a better chance of maintaining high numbers, not selling more.

You can look through PS1, PS2, X-Box, Gamecube, 360, Wii and PS3 sales and you'll notice a patern that, most sequels on average tend to sell as much or below their previous entry, on certain releases it could surpass a previous entry, but it's incredibly rare that the amount sold over the previous entry is significant enough to argue that the amount of users gained in the time between their releases directly affected those sales. Having 60+ million users does not guarantee you'll sell 60 million units, it just guarantees there's more people out there that -could- prevent your franchise from underselling.

[rodrigo]

Couldnt find numbers but read an article from may of this year saying it stand at 67 million xbox's 360 worldwide. So yeah it will do 10 million easy worlwide.

[Almril]

Out of the three Onnie mentioned, BLoOPerS 2 is the only one that will most likely match or surpass its previous entry. Halo has lost a lot of momentum since 3, and I think Revelations did more harm than good for AC.

I actually think Halo 4 will get pretty close to 10 million. Just because the return of Chief will bring the storytelling back to the kind of triumphant setpiece factory that Halo had before. ODST and Reach were pretty downbeat games, I actually liked the more focused and melancholy storytelling in those two titles especially ODST, but that's another thing. If the multiplayer ends up in a good place, I think the return of the old kind of campaign will give it better legs.

[Averry]

I actually think Halo 4 will get pretty close to 10 million. Just because the return of Chief will bring the storytelling back to the kind of triumphant setpiece factory that Halo had before. ODST and Reach were pretty downbeat games, I actually liked the more focused and melancholy storytelling in those two titles especially ODST, but that's another thing. If the multiplayer ends up in a good place, I think the return of the old kind of campaign will give it better legs.

Yeah, this is the first new Master Chief game in 6 years. I'm not sure how anyone can argue that saturation has hurt Halo...and then simultaneously point to the Call of Duty as another detractor. For all we know this is the year that sales actually don't eclipse the previous version and a few of those people pick up Halo instead.

Also...the press is going to be all over Halo 4 in ways you haven't seen for a long time. For being a 6th game in a series, journalists are really talking up 343's job they've done.

I'm already convinced that after the game comes out, people are going to be asking the question "why did we ever give Bungie that much credit?"