Today, Microsoft released global sales numbers for Halo 3's first week on the market and let's just say the Halo 3 money machine continues to churn away. $300 million is the magic number and is the total sales Halo 3 made in the first seven days at retail, adding an additional $130 million to its 24 hour US sales record. Not only did the game make a massive amount of cash, but Microsoft is also reporting that Xbox 360 hardware sales have nearly doubled compared with the weekly average. We think we can safely say that Halo 3 is a financial success ... a really big financial success.
Halo 3 pulls in $300 million in its first week
Today, Microsoft released global sales numbers for Halo 3's first week on the market and let's just say the Halo 3 money machine continues to churn away. $300 million is the magic number and is the total sales Halo 3 made in the first seven days at retail, adding an additional $130 million to its 24 hour US sales record. Not only did the game make a massive amount of cash, but Microsoft is also reporting that Xbox 360 hardware sales have nearly doubled compared with the weekly average. We think we can safely say that Halo 3 is a financial success ... a really big financial success.
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10-04-2007 @ 12:50PM
MisurA said...
Hey Dustin, post something about www.halo3league.com man.
Site gives the ability for users to create not only free but cash tournaments with top prizes ranging over $1100! Tournaments can be customized with pretty much any option that you can choose in a custom game with any game type. Just huge man!
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10-04-2007 @ 12:51PM
ryan said...
umm, no im looking at the back of my copy of the GOTY edition of Elder Scrolls 4 right now and it says it's compatible with my 1080p TV.
even my old scratched up copy of Elder Scrolls 4 could go up to 1080i not just 720p.
the resolution of it is much much clearer than Halo 3. Halo 3 has the resolution of Doom 3 and Riddick for the Xbox 1, no joke.
i still stand that if you are going to have "1080p" on your game box it really better do it. it's plain false advertisement for the HDTV owner. "Oh cool! it is compatible with my 1080p TV!" when it's really not. =(
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10-04-2007 @ 1:09PM
Scott Ores said...
seriously, every forum that i go into there is one or a couple haters, making fun of the resolution of halo 3, this is kinda making me sick by now. cause now all the halo haters have a reason to get all the fanboys going, before it released on the 25th was it?(got mine on the 21st) they had no arguement. all they would have to say is "halo sucks" to get us going, i only have one question; does the resolution really matter that much? if there was no game and you were just watching the screen with 1080p resolution, would it be better then the game? i can already hear all you say yes, so no need to waste more of your life trying to prove to the halo community that it sucks cause i'll tell you a little secret right now(they don't care what you think. all the haters out there deal with the fact that halo 3 is going to beat out the sales records of your precious record holder !!!!MARIO!!!3!!!!
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10-04-2007 @ 1:17PM
ryan said...
no it doesnt matter if it ran at 1080p or 720p at all. Halo 3 is a really fun game regardless of the graphics issue.
what is wrong however is the false advertisement issue. when you make features for a game and print that promise on the box they should be there. agreed?
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10-04-2007 @ 1:33PM
Scott Ores said...
that's an agreeable comment, but your issue is whoever printed the label, why would bungie just strait up screw over it's community like that for no reason? maybe to save money? or maybe it was cause they thought that the way the game was being developed, all the greats look outside the box to create new and exciting games, bungie just chose to use two buffers and render it the way they did because of lighting, and the rays of sunlight coming through the caves as you drive through tsuvo highway puts a little smile on my face, you gotta admit it does for you too.
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10-04-2007 @ 2:11PM
Whocares said...
" so i think its pretty stupid of Bungie to false advertise the gamebox like that. "
How is that false advertising? the box also says 720p and 1080i. is that false advertising? what about when a game is in 720p. I dont see anyone complaining about the box saying 1080i and 1080p. The fact is it might not be native resolution but the 360 can upscale the game to those resolutions with no problem. yes, it might not look as good as a game with native 1080p but it still supports 1080p upscaled. I play in 1080p and I dont have a problem with it. The last time I checked anything over 480p is HD. It still looks better than most games out right now.
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10-04-2007 @ 3:35PM
jose_edwaldo said...
@11
FIFA won't beat that, because it came out in Europe (UK at least) in the same week, and Halo 3 beat it, despite FIFA being out on every format under the sun.
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10-04-2007 @ 4:02PM
Pos said...
Thaths great news make 1 bilion fast so they dont loose much money on the 3 year warranty thing.Get more MS studios games out and get more money!! And FUCK all the PS3 fuckers and buyers!!! I hope they all die enola gay motherfuckers!!
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10-04-2007 @ 5:49PM
Spitkicker said...
Oh c'mon guys...the 360/Halo haters have to have something to latch onto. Let them talk.
I personally could give a shit less about what resolution it runs in. It looks amazing and more importantly plays amazing. The lighting effects are top notch..you can try and dispute this if you want but you would be lying to yourself.
Congrats on the RECORD BREAKING PROFITS...I myself added $130 to that..and I am not disappointed.
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10-05-2007 @ 12:51AM
ryan said...
@Scott
aside from the sweet water effects (which are better than bioshock) the lighting is what reminds me i'm playing a next gen game. it is really very pretty. i wish i could say the same for the human character models. yech.
@26
while Halo 3 may "work" with 1080p output most people think that 1080p support means it will look really freaking awesome,not an upscaling of a 640p resolution.
if my game looks no different from 1080p to 1080i and 720p then yeah, i see that as false advertisement.
bungie's involvement or not, i think it's still a stupid decision to make the buyer believe Halo 3 takes advantage of all that a 1080p TV has to offer.
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10-05-2007 @ 2:04AM
Wes said...
Look Ryan.
No game runs in 1080p across any console system period. Every game is upscaled except 1 game. 1 game in history. Virtua Tennis 3 or something like that. A not-that-great Tennis game released for xbox 360/ps3.
However, if you put in anyyyy game for the xbox 360, the signal that comes out of the back of your xbox 360 going to your tv is 1080p. (assuming you set it to 1080p and your tv supports it)
Its not false advertising. a 1080p signal is going to your tv. The box says 1080p. If you fooled yourself into thinkin that 1080p is the ultimate in high definition super duper viewing! weeeee! Maybe you bought into the PS3 hype about 'The High def starts when we say it starts as we're 1080p!.
Regardless, all console systems upscale and have a lower native resolution. Even oblivion. Yes oblivion may have less jaggies, but I've enver seen 100 enemies on the screen at once with sevearl highly detailed spaceships flying ahead battling it out at the same time.
Sure, they could have made a high details game where there's only 5-10 enemies at a time on the screen(see gears of war) but it wouldn't be halo.
If you really are sooooooooooo concerned about your 1080p, why don't you go play Virtua Tennis 3? Its got 2 characters up to 4 characters in double matches. Its a really involved indepth game. HUGEEEEEEEE number of enemies on the screen at once (2). So its no wonder they can make their character models as detailed and rendered in 1080p, there's only 4 of them. Even less than GOW or Halo 1.
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