Halo 3 Nets Microsoft $300 million

21 Apr 2008 at 18:33:21 by Paul Younger

Microsoft really hyped Halo 3 prior to release and it appears to have paid off. Microsoft issued a statement earlier today announcing that Halo 3 has garnering more than $300 million in sales in the first week alone for Microsoft. Kerching!

Apart from selling a shed-load of games, Microsoft is also reporting that sales of the 360 have doubled in the past week thanks to the game's release. Proof that if you have a AAA title that everyone wants, it can shift the hardware. Take note Sony.

There are also a few interesting stats to sink your teeth into. More than 2.7 million players have now played the game on Xbox LIVE in the first week, that's one third of the Xbox LIVE userbase. On the first day the game was launched, more than 3.6 million hours of online playtime was also logged and that reached 40 million hours by the end of the first week. Gamers really don;t have lives ;)

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