Halo Reach is exclusive to the Xbox 360 and Black Ops will be on both the 360 and PS3, so the COD game looks to be the most sold game thanks to being open to both systems. Looking at the chart on N4G, Halo Reach is top with “63340” and Black ops third with “46950”.
Microsoft on Thursday announced that its new videogame Halo: Reach garnered more than $200 million in sales in the U.S. and Europe in the first 24 hours of its release. The company and industry analysts had expected the title to do well, and Reach did not fail to deliver.
In comparison, the previous installment Halo 3 racked up $170 million in its first 24 hours in the U.S. alone in 2007.
Halo : Reach has managed to break its first Xbox 360 record, that of the number of Xbox live users simultaneously playing online.
Bungie, the developer behind the game, posted yesterday that Halo : Reach has surpassed the all-time record for Halo 3 concurrent unique users on Live.
The game was only launched yesterday morning and it is not surprising that Halo : Reach has shattered that record so quickly; after all, there has never been that many Xbox Live players.
Microsoft’s newer, slimmer Xboxes that don’t come with the 250GB hard drives (but do come with 4GB of internal memory) cannot play certain Halo: Reach gametypes because of an apparent lack of storage available to cache levels and other game code.
Tests by Nukezilla show that the Xbox slim 4GB brings up an error message when attempting to join a co-op campaign mission.
If Nintendo has Mario and Facebook has FarmVille, then Microsoft has the Halo series. It has been the company’s “killer app” for its Xbox game consoles, a nine-year franchise, its games selling 34 million copies worldwide, netting nearly $2 billion to date. It has also spawned a market for Halo paraphernalia, including New York Times best-selling novels, comic books, action figures and apparel.
We are quite happy with the results we got out from flying economy to Sydney, Australia to catch Microsoft and Bungie in their latest efforts to market what is around the corner with the help of NASA space cowboy, Buzz Aldrin.
Halo, the epic Xbox series needs no introduction and neither does Halo: Reach full preview as title nears release!!
Halo: Reach, the latest, and possibly last, installment hitting the UK on September 14th – in less than a week’s time. With the full version already released to the press, an open multiplayer beta and a pirated leak, we already know a whole lot about the monster title and, fortunately, it’s all good – very very good.
As if you aren’t hyped enough as it is already, Microsoft is doing everything it can to provide you with a variety of Halo goodies in preparation for the release of the highly anticipated Halo: Reach. Started on September 7th, Xbox Live will have a new daily treat when you boot up. It’s Microsoft’s little way of both reminding you that Reach is going to be awesome and also giving you some discounted avatar items and themes.
f you caught the first version of the "Deliver Hope" trailer late last month, then you know how this live-action short ends. But while the extended version of the trailer may not clock in at the Master-Chief-homage time of 1:17, it's also significantly more powerful. We get to see more of the Battle of Reach as imagined by a live-action director, and it's seriously epic stuff.
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