Over half of US 360 owners bought Halo 3

by Richard Mitchell { Dec 18th 2007 at 2:15PM }

Do you live in the United States? Do you own an Xbox 360? If you answered yes to both of these questions, there's about a 1-in-2 chance that you own Halo 3. At least, that's what GameDaily says. How do they know this? Elementary, dear reader. With an Xbox 360 installed base of 7.9 million units in the US and 4.1 million copies of Halo 3 sold in the US, that's an impressive 52% of US 360 owners with a copy of their very own. Furthermore, Halo 3 had a profound effect on console sales. As analyst Anita Frazier noted, "That is why content is so important - a really killer game drives hardware adoption more than any other factor (including price cuts)." So, for the record, if anyone asks you, Halo 3 is the most successful thing ever.

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: bungie, bungie-studios, business, console-wars, halo-3, halo3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

andyg8180 @ Dec 18th 2007 2:19PM

and one-half of those people traded it in lmao!! I still have mine, but i dont play it...

ryan @ Dec 18th 2007 5:23PM

i have to say halo 3 got old quick.

COD4 is truly combat evolved. :)

Project Ekim @ Dec 18th 2007 2:26PM

I have mine sence launch and havent stoped playing it its very fun and the keep adding things nearly every month. Halo FTW

Anticrawl @ Dec 18th 2007 2:36PM

The majority of the people on my list traded it in and got things like COD4.

I personally would never trade my copy in but at the same time I never play the game. Would rather play Shadowrun, The Orange Box, or COD4.

Project Ekim @ Dec 18th 2007 2:39PM

The thing is if you dont have good friends on the game to have fun with halo is not that fun alone. I spend hours in forge and custom games with 100s of friends then jump onto matchmaking for some levels it just never get old for some reason.

Anticrawl @ Dec 18th 2007 2:43PM

The only thing that kept me playing passed the first week was glitches and fooling around in forge/custom games. I unlocked every achievement within the first week the game was out and beat it on legendary by myself in the first day or two.

maltinej @ Dec 18th 2007 5:18PM

traded it after a couple days.... so i guess im part of those stats... yes i bought it... but traded it in after a weekend....

Alucard @ Dec 18th 2007 2:51PM

I forgot to take my copy of halo3 out of my xbox360 before repair now is lost forever or in some technician's xbox360 at the service center at texas. I'll just probably buy a used copy from gamestop

Loban @ Dec 18th 2007 3:37PM

Just got my copy from Gamefly. Can't wait to get started on the campaign. But I also have Assassin's Creed, Super Mario Galaxy, and Umbrella Chronicles. Man, there aren't enough hours in the day.

franoculator @ Dec 18th 2007 2:55PM

Halo 3, a great value...

I bought halo 3 about a week after it dropped, for $50 at gamestop. When CoD hit and obsoleted Halo 3 (queue the flaming) I sold it on ebay for $47.

That was a lot of gaming for $3.

JeremyK @ Dec 18th 2007 3:00PM

Britney Spears sold 14 million copies of her cd one year.

Popularity means shit. I'll take CoD 4 any day of the week... or Rainbow Six...

Seriously though I like Halo 3 but it's still one of the most overated franchise in the history of gaming.

Jon @ Dec 18th 2007 5:13PM

pssst...you might get in trouble saying such things around here. but, *cough* i agree *cough* ....
*slips off into the shadows*

ccc @ Dec 18th 2007 3:04PM

Yeah everyone on my list got rid of it, but either way now its free if you buy a 360 thats how successful it is. Glamorised trash. Mainstream simple gamming for the masses. It dose good for my beloved 360 but outside of that I almost despise what it is and what it stands for almost as much as sony.

wtfmate? @ Dec 18th 2007 3:25PM

and what exactly does it stand for? all the evil and tyrany of the world and the very basis for starving children all over the world? or could it be you're just one of those people that hates anything that a majority loves? its a video game for christ's sake...

Anticrawl @ Dec 18th 2007 3:19PM

I just prefer a more tactial experience in shooters now rather than the run and gun days of old. The only game that can pull off mindless run & gun anymore is Unreal, other than that I need some sort of cover and weapons with a variety of features and specs.

ccc @ Dec 18th 2007 3:22PM

It desirves about half the attention it gets if that, otherwise without it Bungie is little more than some scrub former mac developer that has nothing else to fall back on and would probably not even exist anymore. That whole statement they made about 10 seconds of fun was funny shit and the most scub thing I have ever heard a developer say.

IMO @ Dec 18th 2007 3:24PM

Whatever, to each his own I guess.

IMO CoD4 and Orange box are to of the most overated games released this year. Halo3 was overhyped but I loved it, and I still play it. While I do have Orange box and CoD4, I had more fun with CoD2 and played it alot more, still think it's the best in that series. As far as Orange box, it's a good shooter but should've stayed on pc, it took me a while to even care what was going on, and when I finally did, I was bored.

Half life2 has excellent voice acting and the facial animations are still amazing other than that I didn't care about what was going on, it didn't do a good job in pulling me into the story. Portal is the best thing on that disk, but considering you get 5 games, i'm not complaining, just not impressed. And what's with the cyclops E.T. wannabes? Can you get more crapppy for character desighn?

Call of Duty 4 while good, is the Halo haters game. It's online matching is garbage as it doesn't even try to pair you with people of your skill level and ranking, and while it's addictive and fun, it isn't any more so than Halo3 or 2 for that matter. The single player was good, allthough I didn't really care for most of the S.A.S. missions and I didn't/don't want to play this as much as I did CoD2. What sold this game are it's graphics plain and simple. It's fun, controls are tight, and theres lots of things to do but overall there is nothing standout about it, and frankly I felt more burnt by those two titles than Halo3. Granted, I'm a huge Halo fan, but i'm a gamer first. Did Halo3 live up to the hype? yes and no, but by now means IMO are either one of those games any better and IMO they are worse.

big chad @ Dec 18th 2007 4:29PM

Of that 52%...bout half traded it in for cod4 like myself...OVERATED did somebody say?

Tony @ Dec 18th 2007 3:41PM

I think if anything it just proves people have different tastes. Personally, I found HL2 to be enthralling and for once I was amazed that I gave two shits about the characters in a FPS.

To me Halo 3 is just the most fun to play. I think as time goes on, Forge and other things are going to continue to extend the life of Halo 3 for a lot of people. I'm not selling mine and clearly given how many people play it every day and how many copies of CoD4 have been sold, "half" the people out there haven't done anything with it.

busted @ Dec 18th 2007 3:45PM

Hey Anticrawl...

I just checked your gamertag on bungie. It doesn't show you beating the game on Legendary by yourself. It shows you playing with 1-3 other players.

wtfmate? @ Dec 18th 2007 6:11PM

lol

TORO @ Dec 18th 2007 4:01PM

I enjoy Halo 3 and COD4, so it's funny to see gamers argue amongst themselves to which game is superior.

Atleast we have games to argue about right?? cough ..POS3 .... cough

JJ @ Dec 18th 2007 4:13PM

That is true Toro... except for the fact that excluding Halo 3... PS3 owners probably have the same FPS arguments....

now those poor Wii owners on the other hand...although i do have to admit... Wii Jenga is a bit of fun with a group.

Loban @ Dec 18th 2007 4:19PM

The Wii has plenty going for it. While I do have an Xbox 360 to satisfy the hardcore gamer in me, I do love my Wii too.

Take a look at the top Wii games on metacritic and you'll see it's not lacking in games at all. We're simply in a day and age where one console just isn't enough. I love my 360, but I can't go without my Mario, Zelda and Metroid.

c4v3man @ Dec 18th 2007 5:17PM

It's a great game, good variety in the levels, but best when played with a friend. I think people just like to be 'special', and since there are fewer people who hate Halo than those who like it, this fills their need. With features like forge and the recording feature, Halo3 is unique in many ways to other console shooters. Definately earned it's sales.

albinogoldfish @ Dec 18th 2007 6:54PM

this is shocking....I am shocked

jsaylorsgang @ Dec 19th 2007 8:32AM

I just ordered mine from Wal-mart.com Legendary version for 59.99, sometimes it pays to wait, ut I am looking forward to it, used them money I saved to get COD4, so now I sit in the window waiting for Fedex.

thadwhit @ Dec 19th 2007 8:54AM

That's insane, so 50% of 360 owners did not buy Halo 3. I don't know a single person with a 360 who didn't buy the game within a day or 2 of its release.

BowserUSC @ Dec 19th 2007 9:43AM

I never bought Halo 3. In fact I have yet to even play the game.

Big Filth @ Dec 19th 2007 10:20AM

when i was in line to buy cod4 the day it came out, a nerd in front of me had his halo 3 with him to trade it.

that doesnt mean anything but I just thought Id share that.

secondly, every night on my friend list I see at least 90% of my friends playing cod 4. when h3 came out everyone was playing that, but for the past month at least I rarely see anyone playing that.

lots of people moved on to cod 4. I actually put my copy of h3 in the other day for the first time in 4 ever cause my friend was over who had never seen it and was telling me he was thinking about buying a ps3. (i just threw up in my mouth a little bit). I played a couple of matches, and it was cool for sure. but I went right back to cod4.

theyre different games obviously, and both have awesome things going for them, but multiplayer in cod4 is just more rewarding, youre always progressing and unlocking things. Best system ive seen in a multiplayer game yet. not to mention the single player in cod4. its awesome, but then again, halo 3 on legendary with 3 other people co op was one of the best experiences ive had in gaming. that shit was awesome.

3rd

ive got 980/1000 gamerscore in cod4 only missing the 30 intel achievement and I have all 30 intels. I had the slo mo cheat on when I picked up the 30th and I wont give me the achievement and I cant pick up any more intels cause theyre gone. it hurts, deep down inside, it hurts.

imo

cod4 > halo 3

what does this have to do with the post? no clue.

am I bored? extremely.

if I could leave work right now and go home to my beloved 360, what would I play?

call of duty 4 without a doubt.