[quote]Microsoft has announced that Halo 5: Guardians generated more than $400 million in global sales during its first week, meaning the Xbox One game is now the "biggest Halo launch" of all time. The figure includes sales of games and hardware, and drives Halo franchise lifetime revenue to over $5 billion.
By comparison, 2012's Halo 4 generated $220 million its its first 24 hours and around $300 million in its first week. A specific unit sales number for Halo 5 was not announced.
In addition, Halo 5 has become the fastest-selling Xbox One exclusive ever, while it also enjoyed the highest launch-week attach rate (game sold with console) for any first-party Xbox One game. On top of that, Halo 5 was the most-played Xbox One game overall on Xbox Live during its launch week.
"Fans have logged more than 21 million hours of total gameplay, including 12 million hours in campaign mode alone," Microsoft said in a statement. "The widely praised multiplayer modes have also led to nine million total hours played with nearly seven million multiplayer matches played across Arena and the all-new Warzone mode. In addition, Halo fans are taking to the new Requisition System in a big way, with over 45 million REQ Packs acquired, totaling more than 568 million REQ Cards."
Microsoft also announced that Halo 5 has become the "best-selling digital game ever" through the Xbox Store during its launch week.
"The success of Halo 5: Guardians is a testament to the innovative work from the entire team at 343 Industries to bring this installment to Xbox One and the incredible community of fans who have come to love the story, characters and gameplay central to the franchise," Xbox boss Phil Spencer said in a statement. "The game represents all the possibilities of Xbox One and has earned its place as the anchor title in the greatest holiday games lineup in Xbox history."
Halo 5's launch on October 27 represents only the start for the game. Microsoft plans to launch more than 15 free DLC maps by summer 2016, while the $1 million Halo World Championship gaming event will begin later this year. Looking further out, 343 Industries has started work on Halo 6.
For more on Halo 5, check out GameSpot's review and what other critics are saying.[/quote]
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[quote]The figure includes sales of games and hardware,[/quote][quote]and hardware, [/quote]
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3 RepliesIt's just tragic. People continue to feed these monsters who only put out one garbage product after another. The pain will never stop because morons keep buying it.
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18 RepliesEdited by dsikn355: 11/5/2015 4:07:03 PMBillions? I doubt it. Open week sales only proves people wanted a game they didnt fully know about. The figure they will never release is the amount of trade ins and part ex's of the game lol. And comparing previous halo sales is redundant as the price per game has increased hence the larger money made. Try get the units comparison next time as that will tell you what game actually got sold more.
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Thing is, that's might also including sales from bundle sales.
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One thing I noticed: they included how much time fans had spent in Campaign mode 'alone'.. I think [i]somebody[/i] knows that their campaign was a tad short, right boys?
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1 ReplyLol, I have a question. So to all those players saying Halo 5 is going to fail, did it? I don't think so. Lol get rekt.
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[quote]Sorry that you sony kids can't handle this.[/quote] Sorry you have to make fun of the opposite yet equal console to make yourself feel better. I never liked Halo after 3 and don't want to come back. Just my opinion not stating facts.
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9 RepliesLegendary campaign need help gt: bmac625
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24 RepliesEdited by Lethenza: 11/5/2015 10:13:36 PMThat sucks. 343i and Microsoft got away with their false marketing.
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19 RepliesXbox fanboy logic: "Ps4 doubling Xbox sales doesn't matter." "LOOK AT ALL THESE HALO SALES. PS4 SUCKS! SUCK IT SONY PONIES!" I see.
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5 RepliesToo bad Halo 3, Halo Reach, and Halo 4 didn't have related hardware sales that Microsoft could combine with game sales. Oh wait, they did. Gosh, then why did Microsoft wait until Halo 5 to include hardware sales? No conclusions to be made here.
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7 RepliesLet me correct that [spoiler]fallout 4 beats halo sales and puts 343 to shame with false advertising [/spoiler]
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2 Replies... But than came fallout 4
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4 RepliesYour profile name's more interesting
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Did anyone else think it said reach at first?
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2 RepliesThat's some vague PR'ing and twisting to get that number. Not announcing raw numbers tells us it's below past entries. The UK Week 1 sales indicated this as Halo 5 Week 1 sales were substantially below what past entries had been.
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Nice. Not surprised in the least! The game is super fun.
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2 RepliesAhem[quote]The figure includes sales of games and hardware[/quote]Meaning Halo 5 didn't sell as many copies as Halo 3. The Halo renaissance is not upon us.
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No surprise here, The game is awesome! And that's coming from a bungie/halo vet
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This isn't raw numbers...
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I want to see Halo succeed. (In general, I want to see all games succeed for the folks who enjoy them.) However, that figure "includes sales of games and hardware". So console bundles and controllers and such are probably in that figure. Still, great revenue generated by a great franchise.
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2 RepliesI was just gonna post this, but then I saw yours. Good news.