Halo 3 - Record setting $170M on first day

indamixx99

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Wow, I didn't think the release would be this big!

http://videogames.yahoo.com/news-532002


Halo 3 outsells every other entertainment release in history
Video game nets record $170m on first day

Confirming the expectations of many industry pundits, Microsoft announced today that its flagship Xbox 360 shooter Halo 3 had the biggest entertainment launch in history, generated a record-breaking $170m in the United States on its Tuesday debut.

Halo 3's launch day sales total eclipses prior record-holder Spider-Man 3, which produced $151m in revenue over its opening weekend in May 2007. Retailing at between $59.99 and $129.99, depending on how many extra gewgaws you like to get with your games, one sale of Halo 3 generates considerably more revenue than a movie ticket, making direct comparisons problematic. Microsoft isn't letting that stop them, though -- especially since Spider-Man's numbers represent three days of sales next to Halo's one.

The Tuesday launch was marked by long lines outside game stores nationwide, as eager consumers turned up ahead of the midnight launch to guarantee themselves a copy of the game, which brings the story of its iconic star, Master Chief, to a close. Microsoft backed the launch with a $10m marketing campaign, and many opening day events were livened up with visits from Microsoft marketing teams. Master Chief himself even made an appearance in Times Square on Tuesday, where he rang the closing bell at the NASDAQ stock market.

September 25 also marked Microsoft online service Xbox Live's most active day to date. More than one million gamers logged onto the service to play Halo 3 online in the first 20 hours of its release.
 

HamburgerBoy

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With the hype of the first two games, the endless commercials pumping into every child's favorite cartoon channel, and a shitty Mountain Dew spin-off named for it is the success any surprise?
 

Judgement

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How much of that will they lose in recalls due to damaged disks?

**I'm sure it will still be a ton, I'm just jealous I don't have a 360 :p
 

flxnimprtmscl

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I don't get it. I thought Halo (for PC) was boring and repetitive as fvck. I've heard Halo 2 is more of the same, though I've not played it myself. What's the big deal with 3? Third time's a charm?
 
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Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I don't get it. I thought Halo (for PC) was boring and repetitive as fvck. I've heard Halo 2 is more of the same, though I've not played it myself. What's the big deal with 3? Third time's a charm?

Its Halo 3...Halo brand name..nuff said.
 

jagec

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It's not "Master Chief", it's THE Master Chief. Rank, not name.

I liked Halo, because it had great melee and neat physics.
 

LikeLinus

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Originally posted by: enyce2k9
i never found halo that cool, i rather play super mario world.

$170 million dollars worth of other users disagree with you...lol.

People who bash it are going to come out of the wood work first. Those who like it are too busy playing it right now.
 

AdamK47

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Originally posted by: jagec
It's not "Master Chief", it's THE Master Chief. Rank, not name.

I liked Halo, because it had great melee and neat physics.

Master Chief
 

RbSX

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To be honest it was more of the same disorganized shit, it is a fun game though.. and GREAT multiplayer which is probably the most appealing factor.
 

mugs

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Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I don't get it. I thought Halo (for PC) was boring and repetitive as fvck. I've heard Halo 2 is more of the same, though I've not played it myself. What's the big deal with 3? Third time's a charm?

Its Halo 3...Halo brand name..nuff said.

How is the name selling games if the first two games were so shitty?
 

UberNeuman

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I don't get it. I thought Halo (for PC) was boring and repetitive as fvck. I've heard Halo 2 is more of the same, though I've not played it myself. What's the big deal with 3? Third time's a charm?

Its Halo 3...Halo brand name..nuff said.

How is the name selling games if the first two games were so shitty?

The name Star Wars sold the shitty prequels.... People get hooked into the hype...
 

mzkhadir

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I don't get it. I thought Halo (for PC) was boring and repetitive as fvck. I've heard Halo 2 is more of the same, though I've not played it myself. What's the big deal with 3? Third time's a charm?

Its Halo 3...Halo brand name..nuff said.

How is the name selling games if the first two games were so shitty?

1 st halo was good
2nd halo - story sucked, mp was good
3nd halo - story's good and so is mp
 

HamburgerBoy

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Originally posted by: mzkhadir
1 st halo was good

The multiplayer is good, maybe, but that doesn't make it a good game when you consider the singleplayer is probably the most repetitive and boring of any mainstream shooter since Wolfenstein 3D.
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Originally posted by: mzkhadir
1 st halo was good

The multiplayer is good, maybe, but that doesn't make it a good game when you consider the singleplayer is probably the most repetitive and boring of any mainstream shooter since Wolfenstein 3D.


was and still prob is the best console FPS
at that time it was pretty much the only console FPS that wasent just a death match
the graphics were great for the time
they gameplay was really good, the 2 wep system and all that
they story was great
the music ws amazing

yes it had some repetitive leveals but nearly every game ive ever played has had them



halo 2 yes was more of the same but more of a good thing is a good thing, single player was basicially the same with a few tweaks, story was weaker but the middle ep in a series is generally weak
the MP however was near perfect

Halo 3 single player is better then halo 1, its more fun and less repetitive,
and the MP is nearly teh same as H2 but tweaked to be better

all that = win
 

aphex

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Of course they set records when the damn games STARTS at $60.
 

arod

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And at the same time not everybody has a 360 and a $60 price tag is much more of a barrier to sale than a $20 harry potter book or $10 movie ticket (both of which i would consider impuse buys).

Still to say it outsold both of those is pretty amazing.
 

JujuFish

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Halo 1 was slow and boring. That was as much as I cared to venture into the series. I don't know how anyone can enjoy it.
 

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Originally posted by: aphex
Of course they set records when the damn games STARTS at $60.

Damn games have been at the $60/$50 starting price for a while now. This is the first game to reach this level of sales which is noteworthy.

Still, I'm interested in hearing the actual number of units sold in the first 24 hours.

All we know so far besides the sales numbers is:
~1.5 million preorders in the US alone.
~4.2 million copies shipped to retailers worldwide.
 

HamburgerBoy

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Originally posted by: Anubis
was and still prob is the best console FPS
at that time it was pretty much the only console FPS that wasent just a death match
the graphics were great for the time
they gameplay was really good, the 2 wep system and all that
they story was great
the music ws amazing

yes it had some repetitive leveals but nearly every game ive ever played has had them

The best console-first FPS, possibly. I'd still take Super Marathon or Deus Ex: The Conspiracy over it any day with great pleasure. If the selection in console shooters is so horrible that you can't find anything better than Halo, why even bother using a console for that genre? Aside from expense reasons (which still don't work for me; in 2001 you could easily buy a 1998-era computer to play superior games like Half-Life at less cost) there doesn't seem like much of a reason to me.

Graphically most of Halo's luster comes shiny textures, more realistic water, and other little technical features. The actual game world was mostly ugly, from plain gray laboratories to eye-burning purple alien ships. A good engine means nothing when you have no artistic merit. Just look at FEAR for another example of that.

The gameplay is the worst and most overrated part about Halo. Vehicles, weapon limitations, a grenade button, and everything else had already been done beforehand and none of them were major enough to make up for other faults in the gameplay, such as almost every level sucking horrendously.

Level design is a critical part of the first person shooter (or at least was, until Halo fucked that all up) and alone ruins the game. All games have repetitive levels? Maybe to a slight extent, but every single level with no exceptions in Halo has copy and pasting. Yes, even Silent Cartographer with the entire underground command center or whatever it was. It's not even like only the appearances were repetitive either; every single command from that annoying bitch Cortana was given before (Watch out Chief! Another dropship!).

The story only gets praise because Bungie released several Halo novels to explain it better. What you got in game was mostly either already done in Marathon or a previous sci-fi movie in parody. The music is good when it's playing, but since it rarely loops and tries to be 'epic' most of the time you're wondering around the same corridors with nothing but silence. A little bit in the way of ambient sound effects would have helped, but they cut all that out (neutral roaming wildlife and such) when dumbing it down.

EDIT: All that = lose.
 

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Originally posted by: ballmode
Goldeneye best FPS shooterever

Did you buy it using money you got from an ATM Machine with your Pin Number?

And goldeneye was the best CONSOLE FPS ever, IMO, but not the best FPS ever...