Halo 3 Registers Biggest Day in US Entertainment History with $170 Million in Sales
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Surprised B3D users, please raise your hands 
I've been at the Central European launch party, and the MS rep said they plan to make $1 billion from the Halo franchise this year. Can't really see how, even if they sell +200% of the game this year they'd barely reach half of that...
I've been at the Central European launch party, and the MS rep said they plan to make $1 billion from the Halo franchise this year. Can't really see how, even if they sell +200% of the game this year they'd barely reach half of that...
I'm sure the Xbox live numbers are a bit inflated given that the Gold features are being sponsored by some companies for a couple days (i.e. free).
Going by AntShaw's friend's Legendary edition number, that's over 415K sold @ ~$130/150 (USD/CAN) -> over $50M. I'm interested in how many copies were sold during that timeframe however. It must be less than 2.38M, otherwise they'd have bragged, no?
Going by AntShaw's friend's Legendary edition number, that's over 415K sold @ ~$130/150 (USD/CAN) -> over $50M. I'm interested in how many copies were sold during that timeframe however. It must be less than 2.38M, otherwise they'd have bragged, no?
$170M of revenues given that average price is probably above $70 means it didn't quite hit Halo 2's 2,4M copies sold in one day... Total failure!!!1one
(besides day 1 USA sales!)
Yeah, that seems impossible. They would need to sell almost 12M copies of limited edition SKU.Surprised B3D users, please raise your hands
I've been at the Central European launch party, and the MS rep said they plan to make $1 billion from the Halo franchise this year. Can't really see how, even if they sell +200% of the game this year they'd barely reach half of that...
(besides day 1 USA sales!)Yea they're probably also counting on auxiliary products. The rep did say 'Halo fanchise' not 'Halo 3 game'.Perhaps they're also overly optimistic on toy sales.
I wish I could make that kind of money in 24 hours
a major junk of change no matter how you look at it.
Thats huge, good for them!!.... I'm not surprised with all of the marketing! The Best Buy Add last week where selling Package deals on Samsung DLP TV's and XBOX360's, If you bought the TV/360 package you got an instant savings of $350.00!! more or less making the damn 360 free.... do you believe that $hit:.... I would have been there if I had the money...they had a 720p 50" DLP and the XBOX360 for $1199.00
a major junk of change no matter how you look at it.
Thats huge, good for them!!.... I'm not surprised with all of the marketing! The Best Buy Add last week where selling Package deals on Samsung DLP TV's and XBOX360's, If you bought the TV/360 package you got an instant savings of $350.00!! more or less making the damn 360 free.... do you believe that $hit:.... I would have been there if I had the money...they had a 720p 50" DLP and the XBOX360 for $1199.00
phew, at least one of my predictions today came true (i also thought that usa had a good chance of beating samoa in the rugby (96% of ppl said USA would lose) WS won 25-21 btw )
>> “Halo 3†is the conclusion to the epic trilogy
conclusion??!! um i dont think so, you can bet the house or there being more halo games
>> “Halo 3†is the conclusion to the epic trilogy
conclusion??!! um i dont think so, you can bet the house or there being more halo games
I think that will include Halo related peripherals and whatever else they attach it to. From the reports I read earlier, Halo related perpherals and even the Halo SE 360 were evidently selling quite briskly as well.
$170M of revenues given that average price is probably above $70 means it didn't quite hit Halo 2's 2,4M copies sold in one day... Total failure!!!1one
Yeah, that seems impossible. They would need to sell almost 12M copies of limited edition SKU.
The ASP in one article was said to be $78.
At any rate, 3 has a significant amount less install base to sell into. Remember that 2 came out 3 years after Xbox 1 launch (2004/2001). 3 is coming out 2 years after 360 launch (2007/2005).
360 has outsold Xbox1, but not enough to make up that year deficit.
The fact 3 is hitting pretty close to 1's numbers, mean the Halo attach rate is higher this time around.
Oh yeah... I completely forgot about the Halo 3 Xbox 360. How limited is it? And those $60/$70 (USD/CAN) Halo controllers... yikes.
Being as that would equate for amost 1 million sales in 24 hours. No. Calculator is your friend.
No if and's or buts, thats a lot of revenue for a 24 hour period.
Half a billion seems a bit high. There were 200k PS3 on launch day. That'd top out at $120 million if they all sold and were all $600 SKUs, so the hardware wouldn't have got that much. I think the Sony press release was total earnings, which included games and peripheral sales.
