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Forums - Sales Discussion - “Halo 4” Makes Entertainment History with More Than $220 Million in Global Sales in the First 24 Hours

Dallinor on 12 November 2012
kowenicki said:
So 4m is an absolute minimum 1st week

What is the biggest selling exclusive release of 2012 before this? Hell, what are the top 3!?

There really hasn't been anything even close to something this size release exclusively for any console this year.

Top 5 Week 1 Launches 2012 (console exclusive)

1. One Piece Pirate Musou -664k (PS3)

2. Dragon Quest X- 384k (Wii)

3. Tales of Xillia 2- 353k (PS3)

4. Kinect Star Wars - 348k (360)

5. Forza Horizon- 331k (360)

Anything else is well below that.

Comparable multiplatforms week 1:

1. Fifa 13- 4.60m (multi)

2. Assassins Creed III- 3.1m (multi)

3. Resident Evil 6- 2.4m (multi)

4. Mass Effect 3- 2.03m (multi)

5. Borderlands 2- 1.8m (multi)

Top 5 selling retail exclusives 2012 total (console only):

1. One Piece Pirate Musou-0.95m (PS3)

2. Kinect Star Wars -0.93m (360)

3. Dragon Quest X - 0.59m (Wii)

4. Twisted Metal- 0.56m (PS3)

5. Forza Horizon- 0.49m (360)

I think thats it.



 

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yo_john117 on 12 November 2012
archbrix said:
yo_john117 said:
How does this compare to the amount of money COD makes?

Well, COD has pulled in higher WW money on its first day since MW2 in 2009:  

COD:  MW2 = $310m+

COD:  BO = $360m+

COD:  MW3 = $400m+

But what makes Halo 4's $220m so impressive is that it only released on a single system as opposed to COD's three platforms (including PC).

Wow! So in reality Halo 4 could come close to MW2 360 day one numbers. I would be very impressed with that.



toadslayer72 on 12 November 2012

Awesome, I had a feeling it would do well. I think it will continue to do so as the word spreads of how good it is. Between this and BO2, MS is gonna be raking that much more in.



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D-Joe on 12 November 2012
ethomaz said:
D-Joe said:
ethomaz said:
GAF said there are 500k LEs of Halo 4 in the market... that's puts the numbers around 3.3 million units in the first day.

LE console?

The LE console comes with a normal copy of Halo 4... so no.

This.

So why count out this?I understand if count out LE console since NPD didn't track it



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psrock on 12 November 2012

I'll wait for the numbers, nice revenue though.



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ZaneWane on 12 November 2012

so much for halo being in decline



VGKing on 12 November 2012
ZaneWane said:
so much for halo being in decline

It is in the UK.



dsage01 on 12 November 2012

Can't wait for GTA V to break both Halo 4 and COD's numbers!



yo_john117 on 12 November 2012
VGKing said:
ZaneWane said:
so much for halo being in decline

It is in the UK.

You can't say that off of one single week of a game's release. If it has good legs then you'd be wrong.

It could very well be in decline in the UK but one week is way too soon to judge (I'm sure you can appreciate that with all the flak the Vita and 3DS have gotten right after their release)



ethomaz on 12 November 2012

D-Joe said:

So why count out this?I understand if count out LE console since NPD didn't track it

The $220m is the average sales of LE ($99) and standard edition ($59)...

500k LE ($99) = $45m
$220m - $45 = 175$ for SE = ~3,000k

So 3,500k units but the EU sales is more expensive so aroun 3.3 million units sold in day one... the number can be 3.1 million too but over 3.3 million is almost impossible with this revenue.

I think Microsoft is not counting the SE bundled with 360.