Halo Reach Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Halo 3: ODST was released as a standalone game spinning off from Halo 3. Ĭurrently, Halo Wars has sold 1.31 million copies in North America, 0.74 million copies in Europe, and 0.04 million copies in Japan. On March 19, 2009, Microsoft announced that Halo Wars had sold over 1 million copies, making it the best-selling console real-time-strategy game to date. The game took more than 1.7 million copies in preorder sales, Microsoft says, surpassing the previous record-setting pre-orders for Halo 2. In the U.S., Halo 3 sold 3.3 million copies in its first 12 days on sale and an estimated 2.5 million in its first day. To present day it has sold over 14.5 million copies. It was the fastest-selling video game ever and held the record for biggest entertainment launch in history with $170 million in sales within the first 24 hours and $300 million in one week.Īs of January 3, 2008, Halo 3 has sold 8.1 million copies, and was the best-selling video game of 2007 in the U.S.
Halo and Halo 2 are still some of the most played games for the Xbox console. From the day of its initial release and up until mid-November 2006, Halo 2 was the most popular video game on Xbox Live, even after the release of the Xbox 360 its position was eventually surpassed in 2006 by the 360-exclusive Gears of War. As of September 25, 2007, Halo 2 is the fifth best-selling video game in the United States with 6.3 million copies sold, according to the NPD Group. As of May 9, 2006, Halo 2 is the best-selling first-generation Xbox game with 8 million copies sold worldwide. On June 20, 2006, reported that more than a half a billion games of Halo 2 have been played on Xbox Live since its debut. The game sold 260,000 units in the United Kingdom in its first week, making it the third fastest-selling title of all time in the UK. The game sold 2.4 million copies and earned up to US$125 million in its first 24 hours on store shelves, thus out-grossing the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as the highest grossing release in entertainment history. This was followed by releases on Novemin France and other European countries, and November 11 in the UK. Massive lines formed at midnight releases of the game the event garnered significant media attention. Anticipation for the game was high three weeks before this release, a record 1.5 million copies had already been pre-ordered. The first official release of Halo 2 was in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States on November 9, 2004. As of November 9, 2005, Halo has sold over five million copies worldwide. By July 14, 2003, the game had sold three million copies worldwide, and by January 28, 2004, it had reached four million copies. Halo's retail price remained at US$49.99 until November 30, 2003. During the two months following Halo's release, the game sold alongside more than fifty percent of Xbox consoles. On its release Halo: Combat Evolved broke sales records by April 8, 2002, one million units had been sold: this pace was faster than that of any previous sixth-generation console game.
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