- Plunderfuq
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Posted by: An average gamer
Posted by: Plunderfuq
Alright,game on! Im predicting a climb to 6 or 5 on live post Christmas and into the next couple of months. About a 20,000 population jump with solid retention. I have my reasons and my sources for why I think this will happen and a few things could help foster even more population.
Care to put some numbers down on what you believe will be the result of the holidays besides just losing player, which frankly would be impossible for the next couple of months.
As much as I love Reach, you are misinformed.
I am a cashier at Toys R Us. I see what sells first-hand as I am chiefly in electronics. What is selling is not Halo Reach/CEA. Mostly, the popular Xbox games right now (which aren't Kinect games) are FIFA, NHL, NBA, and Madden 12, CoD MW3, Skyrim, and NFS. Out of all of those, CoD and Skyrim are selling the best. For every probably 20 of those, a copy of Reach/CEA sells.
Beyond that, I also know that the focus isn't on the 250 GB bundles of the Xbox with the digital download of Reach. The main focus is on the Kinect bundles. Microsoft is really pushing those on us, and the consumers. Our Black Friday ad had the 4GB + Kinect bundle for $200 plus a gift card and we have been pushing only that bundle since while barely getting the others in stock.
Reach isn't high on sales, or priority, really. I still think it's great, but, at least from what I've seen, it's not really doing much for sales.How many year old games did you see bundled with new xbox's(total sales for Black friday alone were close to one million)? How many year old games are even making any sort of showing in sales this years holiday season? How many year old games have new ownership which has a vested intrest in the future and present success as much as I imagine 343 is?
I could go on like pointing out to you that Toysr r us is not the only store selling copies of Reach and even if ten new players came out of your store, expanded accross the US, the numbers are BLAMMING astounding.
Never fear, you wont have to wait long to see the jump, it should be apparent the day of Christmas and continue with the January release of the live numbers. Further proven when the next numbers for live are released.