Microsoft VP: Halo 3 Surpasses 5 Million Copies Sold, Mass Effect Sells Over 1 Million

December 11, 2007 9:54 AM

Bungie's Halo 3 (X360) has sold more than 5 million copies since the game debuted in late September, Microsoft corporate VP of marketing Jeff Bell told GameDaily BIZ.

In its first month of availability, Halo 3 totaled over 3 million copies according to sales figures from September. Shortly after its release, developer Bungie broke away from owner Microsoft, though it will still develop exclusively for the Xbox 360. A new set of multiplayer maps for the game, said to be the first of many, was released this morning.

Bell also noted that BioWare's hotly anticipated sci-fi RPG Mass Effect (X360), which Microsoft published, sold over 1 million copies within its first three weeks on the market.

"When we look back at 2007, we'll say this was the best holiday lineup in video game history," claimed Bell.

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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Murdoc.

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December 11, 2007 10:03 AM

Until the next best holiday lineup in video game history which has the potentially to broken every year, so really; yawn.
- aggressor
  
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  December 11, 2007 10:05 AM
  
  I dunno, I think the previous best was in 1998. That's a big gap.
  - Murdoc.
    
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    December 11, 2007 10:21 AM
    
    Are we talking sales or what we precieve as "big" good games coming out at once? Then I think it's perception based, especially if we're going to include the casual gamer now.
    
    But yeah, after thinking about it, I can't remember the last holiday season I was excited about stuff and then dissapointed, hehe.
    - pbmader
      
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      December 11, 2007 12:27 PM
      
      in terms of units sold, who give a sh*t if its the biggest holiday season. i'd rather play one really good game that sold 100,000 copies than 10 ordinary ones that sold 25 million copies.
  - Adrenaline
    
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    December 11, 2007 10:28 AM
    
    SiN and Half-Life were great