Halo Series Tops 60 Million Units Sold - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 19 October 2014 / 10,084 Views
Microsoft announced in a news post about the Halo: The Master Chief Collection that sales for the Halo franchise have sold more than 60 million units. There has been more than six billion hours of play on Xbox Live.
"Thirteen years ago, Xbox made gaming history with the release of Halo: Combat Evolved," read the news post. "Then, ten years ago, Halo 2 changed the face of gaming forever. To date, more than 60 million copies of Halo games have been sold worldwide, driving over 6 billion hours of gameplay by fans connected to Xbox Live."
The Halo franchise has sold 57.47 million units at retail, according to VGChartz. That would put digital sales at a minimum of 2.5 million units. The majority of the sales are in North America with 40.47 million units sold, followed by Europe with 12.61 million units sold.
Halo 3 is the bestselling game in the franchise with sales of 11.93 million units at retail. Halo: Reach has sold 9.60 million units, Halo 4 has sold 9.12 million units, and Halo 2 has sold 8.49 million units. The original Halo, Halo: Combat Evolved. has sold 6.43 million units and the remake has sold 2.27 million units.
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Well deserved and hopefully it has more sales to come!!!
Congrats to MS, Bungie, and 343 for creating one of the best franchises ever!
Europe gotta get with program and join in with the Chief. C'mon brethren.
Some will but an increasing amount of Europeans are choosing PS4. Even the British are now choosing PS4 instead of xbox.
this generation of gamers is not very smart.
Halo is the best franchise ever
10 years.. 60 million sold. 4 games. and now a complete remake.. the same people are buying the same games.. let's count it as 60 million sold.
It's not impressive. 12 games/versions = 60 millions isn't impressive. I liked the first game.. but them all are pretty much the same: Run, shoot, die and re-spawn. Reach atleast got upgraded in the graphical section... FPS are easy simple games anyway.. People are buying them for the multiplats.. they should just kill the story lines, cause the story sucked.. there is no story.. it's mission briefings.. that's it
"That would put digital sales at a minimum of 2.5 million units"
Not really. That doesn't take into account games that shipped over the years but weren't sold.
I do not believe there is a lot of Halo games standing on shelves right now...
Are you saying you can walk into any shop and see brand new Halo games sitting on store shelves? If so tell me where because I could do with some brand new copies.
