Halo 3 - Global Entertainment Phenomenon

DragoniteBallZ | October 04, 2007 | Press Release | XBOX 360

Major Nelson, the XBOX Live programming Director reported in his blog more official statistics. Within 1 week...
- Halo 3 has sold $300 million worldwide.
- Nearly 3 million people have played Halo 3 online.
- Over 40 million hours have been recorded of online play on Halo 3.
- Over 30 million Halo 3 achievements have been unlocked.

“Halo 3” is quickly staking its place as the most popular Xbox LIVE® game in history with members gathering in record numbers to play on the world’s largest online gaming and entertainment network on TV. More than 2.7 million gamers have played “Halo 3” on Xbox LIVE in the first week, representing nearly one-third of the 7 million Xbox LIVE members worldwide. Within the first day of its launch, “Halo 3” players worldwide racked up more than 3.6 million hours of online gameplay, which increased more than elevenfold to 40 million hours by the end of the first week, representing more than 4,500 years of continuous gameplay. Since “Halo 3 launched,” gamers have unlocked nearly 30 million achievements. In its first week alone, “Halo 3” drove a record number of Xbox LIVE Gold Memberships as hundreds of thousands of new members gathered online with friends, family members and other gamers around the world to collectively compete and complete the game.

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FFXFREAK | October 04, 2007

Um; whoah. 40 million hours have already been clocked on Halo 3 =\, that's crazy =o. Halo 3 fans must really be into playing online xD. The 3 million that have also logged on is pretty amazing. I'm not really surprised but the numbers are pretty big =o.

~FFXFREAK
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W00tbeer1 | October 04, 2007

Wow, thats a lot of money. Over 40 million hours is totally insane!!! LOL 30 Million Achivements! I think some people are really hooked on this game.
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chaosmonkix | October 04, 2007

no the achievements are really easy to get, especially with the skulls being apart of them, its just the online ones that take some time to get.
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Daedric Prince | October 05, 2007

Halo 3 is amazing, like im not even going to lie
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Play ISDF | October 05, 2007

Ack...huge numbers. Well I can't say I'm too surprised but damn, it's bigger than I expected. 1/3 of the Xbox Live members pretty much playin Halo 3 online. Damn.
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Kazooieman | October 05, 2007

The "Over 30 Million Achievements have been unlocked" doesn't really surprise me though...
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Chronix | October 05, 2007

Wow, that is a ton of money damn. And achievment freaks are half of them achievments. And 3 million people playing online that is awsome.
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Dance Floor Killah | October 07, 2007

And to think that those numbers will probably increase during Christmastime. 0_0