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Halo: Reach Sells Over 3 Million Units In The First 24 Hours

With final pre-orders of just under 2 million units in the Americas and nearly 600,000 units in EMEAA, Bungie reporting that Reach surpassed the one-day XBox LIVE record for concurrent unique users at over two million unique users and as much hype as the release of Modern Warfare 2 last year, nobody doubted that Halo: Reach would be big.

Well, preliminary day 1 sales are in and it looks like over 3 million units of Reach were sold in the first 24 hours of availability across the Americas and EMEAA (Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa).

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pwnd_of_lol4988d ago (Edited 4988d ago )

Reach...

Played Reach all day today and it's the game every Xbox360 owner should get.

movements4988d ago

Now that's how awesome games should sell. Games like Uncharted 2 and even Alan Wake......

But yes, great numbers

darkcharizard4988d ago

Outsold them combined in 24 hrs!!

coolbeans4988d ago (Edited 4988d ago )

Awesome games should sell more...awesomely like Reach's numbers :P.

Akagi4988d ago (Edited 4988d ago )

@darkcharizard: Uhm, Uncharted 2 has sold 3.5m.

jeseth4988d ago

Being a Playstation person primarily I like the direction that Bungie went in with Reach. I like the anonimity of being part of a small unit in a big war instead of being so centered around Master Chief.

Reach looks cool.

Hideo_Kojima4988d ago (Edited 4988d ago )

*facepalm*

In 48 hours maybe but not in 24.

shazui1234988d ago

Uncharted 2 alone has sold 3.71m units

Natsu X FairyTail4988d ago

how long did it take UC2 to sale that much though?

a year?

jetlian4988d ago (Edited 4988d ago )

official UC2 sales was feb and it was near 3 million. either way reach caught it in a day. I remember a day or 2 ago I said reach would catch it or ME2 within 1 week and possible both. Seems like I was right.

darkcharizard4988d ago

I'm sorry, I don't remember pwnd_of_lol's comment as spam!

Please don't ban me!

*phew*

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movements4988d ago

Microsoft should say thank God of Halo..... But now that Bungie's gone.....well.....

I don't know where the franchise goes from there.

Hideo_Kojima4988d ago

Do you really think 343 will be as good as Bungie?

GuruStarr784988d ago

I think 343 will be OK......as long as Microsoft can do better quality control and not release games made by a publisher that are "half baked"....like Crackdown 2 was.....they really dropped the QA standards and gave us some garbage when a new developer took the game over.......I hope they have learned from their mistakes.

Halo is the xboxs flagship title, they should be very careful as to how they produce future games.....The sad thing is though, is that the Halo name alone sells......so they could make a crap game, throw the Halo title on it, and sell millions.....

Bnet3434988d ago

We don't know how good 343 Industries will be, but they got that MGS4 guy Ryan Peyton, Corinne Yu, and Frankie from Bungie as well as other big names. They got an all star cast of devs over there. You gotta be thinkin' they're going to cook up something big.

hennessey864988d ago

has ex members of bungie on there dev team including some who worked on combat evovled

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DigitalAnalog4988d ago

If my memory serves me right, ODST sold 2 million the first 24 hours. Obviously this official follow-up should do better than that.

-End statement

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user39158004988d ago

Started to play the game and did not realized 6 hours went by, called to work sick. Anyways thgis is one hot series, the best one if you ask me, reach has done it.

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tinybigman4988d ago (Edited 4988d ago )

All of you arguing back and forth are complete idiots.

Guess europeans don't like halo much like americans do. M$ better thank its own citizens for making this series as big as it is.

Still hold to my statement above the new one.

GodGinrai4988d ago

*scratches goatee*

i live in london and i bought the legendary edition AND the reach console. my local gamestation was packed monday night..

kinda shoots down your logic.

well desrved Bungie and MS. Reach is pure unfiltered awsomeness!

8thnightvolley4987d ago

are u kidding me europeans dont like reach WHAT!?.. the line i had to wait for to get it was almost an hour long.. wait here in manchester UK... halo is big here.. all my friends are one halo reach...

tinybigman4987d ago

so why didn't it do what MW2 did over in europe?

talltony4988d ago (Edited 4988d ago )

Its pretty cool and challenging on legendary but why is this game just so blurry? It looks compressed to high hell. That tech they are using where when you are far away from a object the details are less defined is very noticable to not so far away objects. Its like when you get to a certain distance it starts to get its details but when you are not close enough you can notice the blurriness. Its actually kind of annoying.

SaberEdge4988d ago

I was scratching my head at this comment because I was thinking almost the exact opposite. When I was playing Halo Reach I was noticing how crisp details and textures were even at some distance away. Most games I have seen lose detail at closer distances.

talltony4988d ago

No it is noticeable in reach. For example walk looking down at the ground texture and notice a mysterious invisible clarity line that makes things clearer up close while noticeably blurry only past 15 feet in front of you. Either it's the engine or it's because my xbox only has component which I highly doubt either way this is my honest unbiased observation.

Pistolero4988d ago

i have seen that in other games but i have not noticed it in Halo Reach....all i know is that Reach has some of the best graphics i have seen in a console game.....the huge vistas, detailed textures, amazing gun models and character models, the colors and art work...it all adds up to a visual buffet.

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dark-hollow4988d ago

Sooo where are those people who said that reach will sell 3 million only by the end of this year?

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Bnet3434988d ago

Yes I think, wow and people thought this wasn't going to outsell Halo 3. People forget, waaaay bigger install base now. The New York Jets were playing the game and players from the Chicago White Sox were in line for the game. Everyone is getting this game it's crazy. I just got the game from UPS just now he he. Gonna go out and play this baby all night! Woo hoo! I love everyone! :D

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HeroXIV4988d ago

Yahoo, on Modern Warfare 2: "Things have been rosier on the Xbox 360: earlier today, Microsoft spokesperson Major Nelson tweeted that the Xbox Live service just hit a new record of 2 million simultaneous players."

VGchartz on Halo Reach: "Reach surpassed the one-day XBox LIVE record for concurrent unique users at over two million unique users."

So... which one is right?

bmw694988d ago

Why can't both be right?

Hideo_Kojima4988d ago

becasue it would mean 2 million people played the game online NON stop and they all logged in at the same time and logged off at the same time.

testerg354988d ago

Guntrol, huh? Thought it meant that at one point there were 2mil+ users. Not sure where it means logged on/off at the same time.

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6 Friendliest Characters in Games

GF365: "Oftentimes, video games have characters who are antagonistic and really not very pleasant. Here are some of the friendliest characters in games where you might not otherwise expect to find them."

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thorstein262d ago

Dogmeat: *bark!*

Translation: you are dead to me.

JSONEHUNDRED262d ago

You can probably add Karlach to this from BG3

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10 Best Lore-Rich Video Games

Talented writers can build worlds that are as wondrous as real-life. Here are the best lore-rich video games for you to get immersed in.

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shinoff2183498d ago

How'd fallout not make the list. Atleast over cyberpunk, tales , and halo. Fallout been around since what 96 98 and has 5 6 games into it. It's full of lore when you play it. I'd even add star ocean to a point.

robtion497d ago

Agree Fallout should be on there.

MadLad497d ago

And somehow Planescape Torment doesn't even make the list.

Crows90497d ago

Hollow knight surpasses these.

shinoff2183497d ago

In lore? I must be missing something

Crows90497d ago (Edited 497d ago )

Yes in lore. Easily missed... absolutely. Never played a game that had me loving the world and lore behind it as much as that one. Most of course wouldn't be able to experience it since it is a more difficult game.

DarXyde497d ago

I can't speak for all titles on this list, but by the time you get to Dark Souls III, the lore is a bloody tapestry of intricacy

Crows90497d ago

Played them all. Im not saying the games on the list dont have good lore...I just think hollow knight had more lore that is hidden but present and more easily explored and accessed. The souls games have tremendous lore but theyre mostly hidden and stay that way unless you look for it and research it. The lore is not very accessible.

DarXyde496d ago

Crows90,

I think that's a somewhat fair assessment. For me, the Souls games are less upfront about the lore, but it does invite your fascination through NPCs, items, locations, bosses, etc. There's this kind of natural progression where the picture becomes just clear enough by doing the essential tasks, but it really makes you want to explore every inch of the world.

TheColbertinator497d ago

Suikoden and Legend of Heroes also have massive lore setups.

agent13497d ago

narration is more important than lore i'd rather watch the story and characters in a more cinematic way instead of searching for notes and stuff that's why i love sony exclusive games like uncharted and gow and hate from software games

shinoff2183497d ago

The article was top ten lore in video games. I think they did a bad job picking games out. I know what you mean though. I just like a variety of games and genres.

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Halo’s best Bungie campaign has its worst feature fixed after 12 years

Halo’s best ever campaign mode developed by Bungie has had its most annoying feature fixed after more than a decade, making the sci-fi FPS game better than ever

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SullysCigar583d ago

Awesome news - so can we look forward to playing Halo: Infinite with no online issues circa 2033?

just_looken582d ago

"You can download the improved Reach AI mod at Mod DB" This was a mod 343 did nothing so the online will be fixed in our dreams.

SullysCigar582d ago

Par for the course with 343.

Profchaos581d ago

They did say they had a 10 year plan for infinite we just all assumed it would be DLC could of been a 10 year netcode rollout.

But seriously this is a mod the community won't be able to modify infinite in the same way

Cikatriz_ESP582d ago

Combat Evolved was the best campaign, and it's not even close.

just_looken582d ago

You should have tried this version of reach when it first came out remastered for a year there was no sound because 343 could not locate the sound files.

It was a special challenge.

badz149582d ago

more like the bunch at 343i are simply mentally challenged

ACEMANWISE582d ago

Well I guess 12 years is faster than most fixes. I guess this is a cheap way to "remaster" something nowadays.....by just fixing something that used to always be broken.

zidane1341582d ago

Did you even read the article? This is a mod to improve AI from back almost 2 gens ago. Nobody is claiming this is remastering anything. Yeesh.

Crows90582d ago

Halo is dead. Microsoft has other shooter franchises it cares more about now. 343 are no longer Xbox golden studio. They are likely to shift things around or even close it all together and give the IP to someone else.

343i decided to pummel the IP into the ground...and when they see it didn't quite look like Glenn's face they decided to just keep on pummeling. Not sure if Glenn is the IP or the fanbase in this case though.

Profchaos581d ago

343 were never the golden studio they were a hastily thrown together b team when bungie said we want to do something else cya

Crows90581d ago

Well ...I didn't want to say it but I agree. Makes you wonder why Microsoft gave them the IP and didn't keep Bungie or any of the talent they acquired from any studio.

CobraKai581d ago

“ Halo Infinite, Halo 3, or Halo: Combat Evolved. It’s hard to say which of the sci-fi FPS games offers the best experience all round.”
He lost me with Halo Infinite.

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