Halo: Reach sells 4 million units in week 1

According to sales tracking firm VGChartz, Halo: Reach has sold 4 million units in the game's first week on sale. Off to a great start, eh?

[bmw69]

Top 3 week ones of all time? Very nice!

http://www.vgchartz.com/wee...

[seij555]

Its funny how they try to be as accurate as possible oh wait.

[Tinted Eyes]

isnt this the same site that was dead wrong about halo odst selling 2 million in one day?

lolvgchartz

[drewboy704]

It sold over 2 mill in the first week so u may have forgotten what an article said a while ago

[Tinted Eyes]

Umm I'm glad it sold well bungies hard work paid off, doesnt change these numbers a INACCURATE.

Nice assumptions though lol

[trancefreak]

Is it necessary to call out a particular fan base. It makes your actions no better.

And btw im a Sony fan boy and I loved every minute of halo reach because its a fantastic game that any gamer should try. Especially if you are a hardcore fps'er such as myself.

[sinclaircrown]

One other thing that won't matter in the end: Your happiness about how many copies a game sold. If platying the game made you happy, I'd have no issues with what you said.

Just think, when one day you're sitting with your grandson on your knee you can tell him that vivid memory of happy days gone by when a video game sold millions!

then he'll say "you must be rich then!"

and you'll say "No no kiddo. All the money from the sales went to the company that made the game. I got nothing out of it."

[FlipMode]

good numbers

[ukilnme]

@ sinclaircrown

Check my comment history. I love gaming. I don't play the sales card but I do wish continued success for the gaming industry which is driven by sales. If my comment upset the Halo haters...oh well.

[Imperator]

360 games are known to sell the largest amount when they come out and this is Halo. I think we all knew it would sell millions. Just look at Halo 3's numbers.

[air1]

and you can tell your grandson how butt hurt you get when a game sells very good on a console you dont have/like.

funny how you cant be happy for a game that sells good all cause you get no money from it, unless its a ps3 game that is.

f$ck sales who cares... let all the games sell like 2 copies so the video game industry can crash. /s

[Tinted Eyes]

Yeah i love gaming to, yet your first comment was attacking me just because i bashed vgchartz and not halo

[sinclaircrown]

Please find one comment of mine that shows I'm a 'fanboy' of any one console.

[drewboy704]

As a playstation fan boy would say... Wait for GT5!!! but seriously we all knew this game would rape in the sales department. also they didn't include japan yet so its more than that. But good for Bungie

On another note the 360 doubled the sales of the PS3 and Wii combined this week. Prob the limited bundle which I purchased happily.

Just look at the disagreeing PS Fans because that not what they would say

[drewboy704]

Also when Japan sales come in Reach will move into 2nd. It only needs 30,000 more and Im positive more than 30000 japanese people bought it

[N4PS3G]

actually it sold 44,000 in japan

[kissmeimgreek]

pretty sure nintendoeverything.com said it sold 43,000 so 2nd place should be a go! Anyway, whats the #1 opening week?

@tinybigman

thats what i thought...

[drewboy704]

my point proven

[tinybigman]

MW2

[tinybigman]

Yea it put up crazy numbers. One more thing I hate this fing site about 85% of the time. Getting disagees for answering someones question is beyond retarded.

Time to log out from this place

[MrMccormo]

I know it sold a lot, and I know it sold around 2 million on the first day (or something like that).

But this IS VGChartz. Let's wait for reliable numbers from someone like Microsoft....er...wait. Let's just give up hope of ever knowing how much it really sold.

[kissmeimgreek]

umm MS is always quick to point out how well there games sell (if they sell well that is).

[Anon1974]

Yeah, and oddly enough, Microsoft never quotes VGchartz figures. In fact, no one does anymore. There was a time when VGChartz adjusted their data when NPD data or official numbers came out. That practice died long ago. Now, VGChartz is just guesstimates, and not even close to accurate ones. Look at their sales data compared to NPD data for August. 10% off PS3 data, 20% off on 360 and Wii. Look at NPD versus official data from each company. They overtracked the 360 by 30% this first six months alone, PS3 numbers are off still by over 2 million.

There's no doubt in my mind that Halo: Reach sold big, but a 12 year old could have told you that was going to happen, and probably be more accurate in the prediction of the actual numbers. How wrong does a site have to be before we stop quoting them as news? It's not 30% wrong, obviously. How bad does it have to get? Do their numbers have to be 40% off? 50% off before we stop seeing these fake numbers being masqueraded as news? Personally, when I see 10%-20% off on a regular basis, that's enough for me.

[tinybigman]

i'm shocked that it didnt beat MW2 360 numbers wow. anyway good numbers for Reach it's actually the only halo game i truly like.

[lowcarb]

He was talking about Halo games and nowhere mentioned disliking other 360 games.

[avengers1978]

AND THERE DONE!

[kyiren]

I was expecting so much more, so that is less then 10% of all there 42 million sold. maybe there really is not that many working 360s out there.

and then at TGS there are only 20 million gold acc# so i think that what 20% give or take wow not that much.

360 fanboys are slacking on the allmighty HALO

but still good for 1 mill in one week

[Machina]

Impressive! More than Halo 3.

[LeeRoyJenkins]

Uh Oh!

[naznatips]

And damn well deserved. I've been playing it non-stop for 2 weeks since I got the review copy.

[Duke_Silver]

thats a pretty solid debut week

[Omega4]

Was expected, and a massive hardware boost too. Shame it didn't beat MW2 though.

[Paralex]

Of course it didn't beat MW2. Call of Duty has a bigger following.

[Garrus_Vakarian]

Of casual, Bobby Kotick d-riding, band-wagoning, sheep. :D

Can't wait to see how many people pay for Premium Call of Duty.

[SonyPS360]

Well Halo fans paid less for more, so they're the winners really.

[SpitFireAce85]

I agree with Omega4 i hate MW2...

[GamingForever]

That's pretty good!

[BornToKill]

dolla dolla bill y'all

[franco]

getting mine soon... damn empty pockets

[TOSgamer]

sales tracking firm? haha

[red2tango]

It's sad that games that deserve these sales don't even get half of what a par game does

[Unicron]

Yup. Halo deserves it (Bungie is a great team), but I'm amazed at the amount of quality games (on par as you put it) who fail to see such recognition on all 3 of the big systems. It's disappointing.

[STICKzophrenic]

Halo: Reach is hardly a par game.

Maybe if devs of other games that supposedly deserve more sales were as close with their fanbase and community as Bungie is with the Halo Community, they too could have sales like this.

I know someone will bring in marketing, but what is it that keeps Halo selling strongly months and years after it releases? What is it that keeps people PLAYING the game months and years after it releases?

It's word of mouth. People talk about the game and get their friends to play it and have fun, so they go out and buy it. It's the fact that Bungie releases the Weekly Update almost every single week, keeping their fanbase abreast of what's going on in the development cycle, keeping them up to date with the latest news, etc. Bungie and MS have had an awesome strategy with always keeping a steady stream of info, screenshots, ViDocs, trailers, etc. Everything that's done keeps the fans in the know, and not many devs do that with their fans.

[ukilnme]

Couldn't have said it better myself. No really...I couldn't have.

[drewboy704]

I think reviews state otherwise in terms of being on "par" but you bring up good points about the updates and how halo just keeps being played for years.

[STICKzophrenic]

"I think reviews state otherwise in terms of being on "par" but you bring up good points about the updates and how halo just keeps being played for years."

I'm not sure if he's saying it's on par with other Halo games, or with other games in general.

If he's saying it's on par with other Halo games, I agree. I think all of the halo games are great. However, if he's saying it's on par with other games in general, I disagree. I think it's well above par and is in the top echelon of the best games.

[Unicron]

Quality of the game aside, you have to admit that people love to be part of something big and popular. The quality is the key factor that KEEPS them coming back. One also cannot deny the appeal of a large, popular franchise (look at how many people still love Star Wars after the crap prequels).

[SonyPS360]

Has nothing to do with the review scores of 9/10+ across the game franchise then.

[Omar91]

doesnt matter its on vgcharts or not. you know this game sold about this much. its an awesome game and its halo... come on.

[gypsygib]

I'm surprised the say this but Reach deserves it, the game is like crack - both SP and MP. I don't know why either, the story isn't amazing (actually fairly lacking) and the MP seems very basic compared to BFBC2 but I can't stop playing!

[N4PS3Fanboys]

Incredible. And a huge boost in 360 hardware. So much for all Halo fans already having a 360.

Americas Sales for Week of September 18

360: 156,249 (+69%)
DS: 146,104 (+16%)
Wii: 67,938 (-8%)
PS3: 65,063 (+14%)
PSP: 29,063 (-35%)
PS2: 9,687 (-2%)

The 360 got a 69% boost from Reach and the PS3 got a 14% boost from Move. Also, the 360 outsold both the Wii and PS3 combined.

Europe + Others Sales for September 18

360: 116,934 (+71%)
DS: 92,455 (-1%)
PS3: 58,167 (+18%)
Wii: 51,807 (-3%)
PSP: 28,304 (-14%)
PS2: 15,685 (-7%)

Again in Europe the 360 outsold both the PS3 and the Wii combined. Total domination across the charts!

[mittwaffen]

Any halo 3 fan+new players would make it likely. Word of mouth travels, since this is one of the few exclusives, and halo games make people go crazy for it.

Good to see 360 doing good, since it is an American Company at a time when most are hurting.

Keep it up, more money into our N.A. market.

[SonyPS360]

12 people have disagreed with facts.

If you told them that the earth was spherical, I think you'd still get disagrees.

[ipunchedGOD898]

You know that VGChartz "guesses" what they think is the forecasted sales, right? Let me try my hand at it: I think the game will sell 2 million units, give or take a million.

[alb1899]

i will like to fail like that!

[JJFNIGHTS80]

Who cares of course it will sells over a million.

[Skadoosh]

The definition of a blockbuster AAA title right here.

[PS3-247]

Nice numbers for Reach. I said it won't pass Halo 3 sales but it should pass it for sure.

I can't wait to see what GT5 will do. I'm guessing 2.5m-3m 1st week for GT5.

[Counter Strike]

Must be weekend Sales!

[Hades1337]

Crazy numbers. Just shows how far the gaming industry has come over the last 10 years or so. Blockbuster games used to struggle to get to 4 million lifetime sales, and now they achieve them in ONE week!

[TheoreticalParticle]

Now we know that it definitely did NOT sell 4 million units in 1 week.

VGChartz is a joke. They're not a "firm".

[The Almighty PS3rd]

Xbox 360: Kickin' arse and takin' names.

[Raptura]

Xbox + Sales Statistics...... Again.....

[XactGamer]

PS3 Fanboys + excuses...... Again.....

[SonyPS360]

Note that VGchartz switches between credible and "bullshit" on here, depending on which console it's posting about.

[SuMtOnE]

Impressive Numbers...

[bustamove]

Not surprising.

[P_Bomb]

All these posts about increasing gaps, pumping more money into the North American market, I just don't get it. Should games come with financial statements and Nasdaq reports now instead of instruction manuals? What's the appeal?

[mittwaffen]

Educate yourself, look at the world around you and not the world inside you LCD TV. You can clearly tell this dude has a PS3 and is offended by comments supporting our own economy.

Just like China, Japan, they all have the right outlook on companies. They are a conservative culture and choose to support their companies 9 times out of 10. Why? Because they hold value to this (Look at how well their countries are doing vesus us).

Its not the soul reason, but its a value North Americans have lost since the time of cheap foreign goods replaced all locally made. To be honest, its extremely uneducated to not support your own country and as of the past two decades have proven this to be good practice.

You know that 'Buy American' saying? It isn't a baseless red-neck claim, its actually more justified then buying offshore goods. Because of more and more reliance on cheap labor, etc; laws passed to allow exploitation of outsourcing job markets (Low Tech/High) are completely messed up due to this instability, and have proven to be a great contributer to unemployment during times such as these.

Educate yourself, and start replacing your manuals with NASDAQ statistics while youre at it.

[P_Bomb]

See, that's exactly the kind of rhetoric I'm wondering about. Bringing up the PS3 even though my avatar is NINTENDO and I never said ANYTHING negative about MS or Bungie in the first place. Talking about "educating" me, lol.

I'm just wondering out loud what the appeal is in sales banter and random PS3 bashing. Buying American (Halo) is hardly gonna help the economy or create jobs the way buying cars from GM would. I'm not even American, lol. Is that really important to gamers nowadays? Avoiding foreign developers? I had no idea. Kinda sorry I asked.

Congrats to Bungie regardless.

[4me2]

People will buy goods that are best quality to what they can afford with their budgets and provide as much quality in live for their families as possible. Nobody wants to overpay for the same quality product (as takes away extra $ from your budget), or pay less for inferior product. Free market work the best, customer votes with wallet.
It is up to elected officials/government to oversee changes and make sure that country stays competitive and offers local companies advantages and breaks they need to push superior product to the market and stay ahead of international completion. Innovation and quality will always sell.

[mittwaffen]

Reading out for context people, I never said foreign = shit, crap, whatever it may be.

I stated P_bomb owns a PS3 (which can be used to support this view), think of it like this... you buy a console at a loss (no profit for either side of the fence) but the software you buy the money goes offshore at the end of the day (Owned by Sony) then split out to Dev's.

That isnt supporting an economy, regardless of quality; you'd be hard pressed to find better made goods in electronics on shore here (when its all made in china) everything is made in china/ off shore because of our lost values for corporate profits, and laws placed to enable this.

It isnt a healthy economic system and is not sustainable (look at the shift of money power USA to China) which is why this outlook needs to start somewhere.

You guys will learn, sooner or later; Jobless or homeless even broke. P_Bomb you should chill out mad, dont take offence since you know...all of your comments are bashing something, defending your console or game. Be constructive, I can tell your not educated on this topic, buying 5,000 000 (million) copies of a game at 60 a pop isnt helping the economy?

---Please go back to school, better yet join the Military, get a free education while your at it. Do you know the trickling effects of money?

Then again i'm not surprised; this is N4G where MS paint pictures on a Google pages website is approved. This is the last place I should be saying anything logical.

Peace out obtuse people.

[specialguest]

But selling nearly 4 mil in the first week is incredible.

[P_Bomb]

@mitwaffen
Yeah, you probably shouldn't talk about people going back to school and getting free educations when you're too frazzled to even know the word is 'YOU'RE'...not 'YOUR'...lol. 'So defensive. I must have hit a nerve. Just nevermind. Debating with a shill who somehow correlates a Nintendo Ba-bomb avatar with the PS3 isn't what I was looking for. Time to move on, lol.

[Claudinho69]

lies

[tacosRcool]

and most of the players are teenage boys whose balls haven't dropped yet