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Halo 3 scores $300 million in first-week sales

cooly99 | October 06, 2007 | News | XBOX 360 
Halo is still new but yet it earned more than one million dollars on the first day since preordering. Think about what it might be sell 2 months? Wow 6 million! Halo 3 is the fastest selling game on the Xbox 360. The Xbox live unsurprisingly has 2.7 million gamers.
Xbox 360-exclusive Halo 3 made $170 million on its first day on sale in the US alone, and also broke Australian sales records according to figures released down under. Now Bungie has one more reason to celebrate, as week-one sales have clocked in at a rather reasonable $300 million worldwide.

Halo 3, which is the fastest-selling game ever, is being billed by Microsoft as "one of the most successful entertainment properties in history." The company released a statement saying that initial figures from retailers are also showing the Halo effect having an influence on console purchasing--Xbox 360 sales have more than doubled since the game's release.

Unsurprisingly, the game is also faring well on Xbox Live, with more than 2.7 million gamers having had a go online--over a third of the 7 million total registered Live users. Forty million hours of online games, which adds up to 4,500 years, have been played in the first week across the globe, with almost 30 million achievements unlocked.

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    cooly99 | October 06, 2007
    wow halo is top in the xbox 360
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    W00tbeer1 | October 06, 2007
    They are not going to make as much as much per week as the first week, but they are going to make a lot more. I think in a couple of months they will hit over $1,000,000,000. Thats just my opinion.
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      Kazooieman | October 07, 2007
      $100 Million is a little big, this is just my estimate but i think that in 2 weeks time almost every will have this game and no more sales for it will come... (just an opinion =D)
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    cooly99 | October 06, 2007
    i agree since everyone i know played halo 1 and 2 thats why
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    Incidnia | October 06, 2007
    2.7 million. Is that it.?


    I saw 1.16 million people on Halo 3 alone today.
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    Chad | October 06, 2007
    I knew it would be a pretty high number, but I expected it to be just a little bit higher than that.
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    KingX2 | October 07, 2007
    2.7 million members online seems a little short of how many people play Halo. Those are damn big numbers, nonetheless.

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