Halo: Reach beta logs over a million players on first day

by Richard Mitchell 

It looks like Bungie is well on its way to engaging its expected three million plus players for the Halo: Reach beta. According to a recent news post on Bungie.net, the ongoing Reach beta logged well over a million players on its first public day. Specifically, the beta saw 1,170,112 total players, who manage to frag, stick, headshot, pummel or otherwise maim one another 157,972,986 times over the 14,205,611 games played, totaling 936,864,266 seconds of play time. That's 260,240 man hours or over 29 man years.

If you prefer your jaw-dropping facts to be less numerical, Bungie concluded that the Reach beta saw more action on its first day than the Halo 3 beta did over its entire three-week run.

One stat missing from the rundown: How many jet packs were used? We're presuming the number is incalculable.

I think this beta might just be the biggest one ever.

@yo_john117

it def is the biggest on 360 ever since the last record holder was Halo 3 which lasted like two weeks and the Reach beta has already broken that record in one day. That's insane and Reach is going to be MASSIVE.

Pretty impressive, you'd think no less from Halo =] , but stats are freaky when they compare it to real life time. =s

I can perhaps understand now why the servers suffered so bad, I don't think even Bungie would have expected these numbers.

Wow great stats, this well be a great success.

The only issue with the game I have so far is some camping spots and the Camo armor perk with someone who has a hammer or sword... other than that fun game

To be honest. Wow. But about 25 hours ago I was on and it said total Players 949,000. So Reach is being uber amazing right now.

Sprint is a much deadlier combination with the hammer or sword.

The game looks and plays amazing! it blows 3 out of the water. might get xbox live just for this, though hoping for a PC port.