Halo 3 sales top £84m in the space of 24 hours
Writen by walking leaf on Saturday, 29 of September , 2007 at 12:40 pm, ,
The highly anticipated First Person Shooter (FPS) that is Halo 3 has broken all records as the biggest-selling video game on the Xbox 360 platform.
Developed by Bungie, the third sequel based on the war between aliens and humans led by Master Chief, means the game publishers has earned more than £84m ($170m) in sales after its first 24 hours on release.
It has already gain more money as an entertainment product than even the Spider-Man 3 movie and with millions of gamers playing this game and going online via Xbox Live, it is set to reach un-imaginary levels of popularity in the next few days.
In fact, official figures reveal by Microsoft and GameDaily tell the true story of how successful Halo 3 has become in a single day… More than 1.4 million people have gone online since its launch and more than four million online games of Halo 3 were logged in the last 24 hours.
“Halo 3 has become a pop-culture phenomenon,” said Shane Kim, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, in a statement.
Indeed it has and for those interested in how many copies is sold; GameDaily presents a breakdown of the three different editions of Halo 3.
Using the knowledge of $170 million made figure by Microsoft and checking with retail sources, GameDaily calculated that “every four standard copies sold, two limited edition copies and one legendary edition is sold.” This means 14 percent for Legendary, 29 percent for Limited (or Scratched edition, as gamers found the disc to be scratched when brought new) and 57 percent Standard. They figure the breakdown is:
Standard edition: 1,600,000
Limited edition: 694,000
Legendary edition: 187,000
A truly impressive statistics don’t you think?
Category: Videogames
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Comment by Snige66
Made Saturday, 29 of September , 2007 at 5:51 pm
Yeah just mind blowing stats. Shame the game doesn’t live up to the hype. Dont get me wrong I like it sure enough, but it’s just not BioShock, and I’m looking forward to COD4 much more.
I do like it ( single player ) a lot more than Halo 2. That was never played for more than 3 or 4 hours. This is much better. The alien weapons you can pick and use are much better this time, though are pretty much the same ones.
The musical score is brilliant as are the aliens you fight.
My biggest gripe is the floatiness to the controls. When you jump, it’s like it’s in slow motion and you jump way to high. It’s gastly, and quite how all the testers didnt hate aswell I’ll never know. I knew the testers didn’t mind it cos I got the Limited Edition which comes with a second bonus disc, which is actually very good.
What’s not so good and my second biggets gripe, is the fact that. like so many others, it’s been scratched cos of the hopeless disc holder of the case.
I do think the game is ace and is bound to be great online, not had chance top try it yet ( want to get reasonable good at it before getting my ass wiped by some 10 year old ). That point makes me laugh ( Actually it doesn’t ), because the point of annoying US kids playing online was sited by some twat PS3 fanboy hating the game and posting on the PLAY.COM reviews. Jesus ‘king fanboys are such a ‘king pointless waste of air, and they all need to be rounded up and killed. Seriously. I pull the trigger.
Back my point though, it is a bloody good game, but not close to the hype. The one good thing is that because it’s so popular, getting a game online will be a sinch for years to come.
Comment by Yink
Made Sunday, 30 of September , 2007 at 7:41 am
My nephew just got himself a xbox 360 & halo 3. I haven’t played any of the halo’s I have seen it played though many times : )
It just looks like halo 2 to me, lol
But mighty impressive stats indeed.
