The new chapter in the Halo series also eclipsed the biggest movie launch in history, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, in terms of U.S. opening day sales. (Of course, Microsoft doesn’t have the data to show whether its Xbox 360 blockbuster beat Harry Potter on a global basis).
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Microsoft said the new Halo game was on track to sell more than $300 million in global sales in its first week. Overall, lifetime sales of the Halo franchise have surpassed $3.38 billion since the series first launched in 2001. Halo 4 had 4 million players in its first four days, spending 31.4 million hours playing the game and pushing total game play hours for the series past 5 billion hours.
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So did I. The title had me breaking my heel to get in here.
Even the DS and PS2, best selling portable and console, didn't sell that much.
And we thought they were talking about units, sold on ONE console alone, the X360
The new chapter in the Halo series also eclipsed the biggest movie launch in history, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, in terms of U.S. opening day sales. (Of course, Microsoft doesn’t have the data to show whether its Xbox 360 blockbuster beat Harry Potter on a global basis).
The global king Harry Potter remains unchallenged.
But will be getting it along with Black Ops 2 later today! 
however those are impresive #s tbh 
