Somewhere, someone has got to make a lot of money on this game, and are now probably laughing all the way to the bank. The previously best selling Halo game, Halo 2, has now been overtaken by Halo 3.
I like Halo3 much better, its got alot of great features 4 player co-op is awesome with some friends, great gameplay plus online is run & gun fun, add Bungies constant support just keeps making a already very deep game even better.
Wow. amazing sales. Never thought it would be inching towards 10 million copies sold. That means every 3rd Xbox 360 owner owns a copy of Halo 3. Amazing!
As a ps3 only owner....xbox owners sure buy there games, unlike ps3 owners. We have a fantastic game in Killzone 2 and the damn game will only hit 3.5 million lifetime probably....i dont understand ps3 owners.
infamous, it isn't the PS3 owners fault - it is sonys fault for not advertising their games. I knew so many people the week before the release of killzone 2 that didn't even know what killzone 2 was!
Halo3 was fun, graphics were pretty good, tuned gameplay and great online. Nothing not to like about the game really but I don't like the Green suit anymore it looks so basic and kinda lame sometimes I'm like Halo was pure luck that it was so successful however the gameplay holds up even today on combat evolved save the vehicle controls for the warthog.
"As a ps3 only owner....xbox owners sure buy there games, unlike ps3 owners. We have a fantastic game in Killzone 2 and the damn game will only hit 3.5 million lifetime probably....i dont understand ps3 owners."
That is because Killzone 2 is another beautiful disaster like Haze. I am sure I will get disagrees like mad for saying this, but what the hell where they thinking when they designed the control scheme for this game? The PS3 controller is already awkward enough on a FPS without adding a delay!!! If they would have had a normal control scheme this game would have been truly epic. I am sorry though I simply can not stand the controls. IMO Resistance is leaps and bounds ahead of Killzone 2.
Anyway back on topic. Halo 3 is truly an amazing game. The number of people playing it and the number of sales it has speaks for itself. Halo is more tailored to the run and gun audience and it is the more tactical people that bash it. Personally I love both tactical and run and gun, but r&g is still my favorite.
the way i see it, most people bought a ps3 as a blu ray player. that's why you hardly see ps3 games (exclusive or not) on the npd top 10. i mean come on, i bought killzone 2 and i frigg'n love it man. sony fanboys here keep hyping their exclusives and what happens? they don't sell as expected. they're too busy hyping ps3's exclusives they forget to go out and buy them - nice! oh and those comments about killzone 2's npd sales were only for 2 days.....yeah, well compare that to gears 1, gears 2, halo 3's first day sale - notice the difference? sony is also at fault. one would think by now, they'd know how to advertise their big triple a titles. who knows, maybe sony thinks that by using their own loyal fanbase, word will get around at little to no cost to them and their exclusives will sell like hot cakes. thing is, that strategy doesn't work. least not for them thus far. if killzone 2 came out on the 360, you better believe ms would have hyped the living sh!t out of it and it would have sold like crazy. much crap is said about ms buying exclusives here and there, or that the 360 can't do this or that, in the end the xbox 360 does something ps3 has been struggling to do this gen....sell their games in the millions. it's not to say that selling 300 - 600k is bad, not by any means, but you would rather have your title sell in the hundred thousands? or millions? that's the difference between ps3 and xbox 360 owners. 360 owners actually SUPPORT and BUY games. oh before i forget, i love sony fanboys who trash halo 3....is there a ps3 exclusive that has sold that much? me thinks not.
One more thing to all those who hate on halo (don't care if you're a 360 owner or not), you personal opinion is just that - i respect. But no one can deny that halo is in a league of it's own. that's the power of that franchise, sure better looking games come out, but halo multiplayer will always be at the top or at least in the top 3 on live. soon you'll see COD MW and COD WAW fall off the charts as the newer games come out and you'll still be seeing halo in there in the 1st 3 spots. I don't think there's ever been a console game with that lasting appeal to gamers.
@ DNAgent's comment below
lol, let me guess, you tried to play halo 3 online, got your ass kicked, put on your best dress and went back to flower - super!
sony and it's gamers don't know how to market a game worth sh1t, you don't smother the game in hype and at the same time diss every game out there that opposes it.
every fvcking insult that N4G's ps3 members deliberately said about 360 and it's selection of games....not one person out of n4g heard it, out of the millions of gamers there are in this world.
(this should be a turning point for those who wasted time hyping killzone, rather than making childish remarks about how bad halo3 is in comparison, those people should have made a more friendly and welcoming approach to hyping killzone2.)
This just proves that quality gameplay will prevail every time. Sure, Halo 3 may not look as good as other Xbox 360 or PS3 games, but it is gameplay quality that matters most, and Halo 3 delivers top notch next-gen gameplay. Just like PS3 supporters say that sales don't matter, it's all about quality - Halo 3 proves that gameplay quality trumps graphical prowess.
GUNS N Swords speaks truth. A lot of PS3 fanboys here hyped KZ2 to hell and bashed Halo 3. And for what? KZ2 didn't come close sold a million at launch, while Halo 3 is a a chicken laying golden eggs for Bungie. Now I understand why Microsoft never saw KZ2 as a threat, it barely even touched Halo. And for the record, please shut don;t speak to me if you don't know who I am. Calling me a fanboy is not going t help the situation at hand for you fanboys. I love it when people talk sh*t and it gets shoved right back in their mouth. Honestly, it doesn't matter what side your on. 360 PS3 Wii w/e.
"hat is because Killzone 2 is another beautiful disaster like Haze. I am sure I will get disagrees like mad for saying this, but what the hell where they thinking when they designed the control scheme for this game? The PS3 controller is already awkward enough on a FPS without adding a delay!!! If they would have had a normal control scheme this game would have been truly epic. I am sorry though I simply can not stand the controls. IMO Resistance is leaps and bounds ahead of Killzone 2."
Haze wasnt a beautiful disaster, it was in fact, the opposite. and the control scheme is great for this game. it was designed well for that controller, it is not a 360 controller, which is suitable for FPS and no, Resistance 2 does not leap ahead of KZ2, especially in the graphics department. Killzone 2 was never a beautiful disaster, it did lots of things right. as I said before, I love this "double standard" that people put to this game.
People have been trying to make this game fail for a long time because they hate the dev team that does it, not to mention the company that supports this dev team, and you know what? they cant. so they nitpicked this game to death. Im not going to talk any farther than this, because this is a Halo topic.
That being said... answer this question please --> WHY haven't MORE PS3 owners bought Killzone 2 then?
Do more than 2/3rds of PS3 owners actually --> BELIEVE <-- in the negative things so-called detractors of the game --> AND the detractors of the developers AND the detractors of Sony - say?
Orrrrrrrrrrrr --> MAYBE <-- just maybe - there ARE NOT as many shooter fans in the current PS3 install base as many might have thought... Hmmm?
Just curious as to why you liked Halo 2 better than Halo 3?
Was it the horrible ending of the Halo 2 campaign you adored? Which made the top ten of worst endings for a video game of all time. Halo 3 on the other hand had an excellent ending.
Or was it the Halo 2 multiplayer you liked better. While I liked the game a lot at the time, it was spoiled and tainted with online cheating and network manipulation that ruined night after night of play. You'd just come down from an anger burst about some a-hole cheating and you'd run into another cheatin' fool. Halo 3 mulitplayer may not be perfect. I mean, I miss some of the maps from Halo 2 and all that, but they have done a better job preventing most of the cheats and network manipulations.
Now, if they could just fix the grenade system, because that stinks up all three games. If I throw a grenade at you in real life and you shoot me dead before my grenade goes off, my grenade still goes off. This will happen every time unless a grenade is faulty. But in the Halo games, it is hit or miss, and usually not, that a grenade will still blow up after the thrower is killed.
halo3 is a really fun game.. my all time fav mode, Griftball .. well the one like NFL ... mega fun.. 10 million sales.. comparing any game as a halo killer is a very big mistake many should not make coz 10million is a monstrous number to beat. and the only thing that can ever top that no is a Wii fit which i dont consider a game... or another halo FPShooter. no other game would reach that number well i dont see any maybe gears2 might try. but that game would have to be on the 360 since 360 gamers buy a shyt load of games.
isnt this the second article that did this...first it was hhg claiming kz2 was a failure because it had vgchartz.com numbers and everyone beleived him...now qg.com does the same thing with h3...and again everyone beleives this website...
Look if the information is not released by its Publisher...speculation means nothing...This thread should be locked or closed or even removed because the source is giving guestimated numbers...
If you like Wii fit, then yeah I guess. Don't know why you are comparing the two. Sure, Wii fit has sold a lot, but you know that that game is aimed for casuals.
Halo is also aimed at casuals. It's a run & gun shooter and it's a casual shooter. It doesn't take any skill so it's easy for casual gamers to pick up and play while still managing to get a lot of kills.
to be good at halo u cant just be a run and gunner... and if its team deathmatch it is one of the most team oriented deathmatches... you cant win without a good team in Halo...
halo 3 is not a run and gun game. True, it is easy to be an average skilled player in Halo 3, but to be truly better than the average player requires much practice and skill. Since ive played Halo for about 8 years now, i think i would know.
You can do just fine in Halo if you just run and gun. If you deny that, your just not being honest. If you want to get good however, you have to approach it a little differently.
I think this is a testament to Halo's playability/accessibility. If you want to play it casually you can and you'll do fine, but if you really want to get into it, you can get really good.
Halo 3 is not the best shooter out there (IMO), but it is one of the most accessible. That is why we will see this game sell well throughout this generation.
I'm getting tired of these PS3 fanboys. Out of all the consoles, I hate xbox 360 the most and I can't really understand why people play halo 3, because I think it's garbage. But hey that's only my opinion.
Why not congratulate Bungie for making a successful game and stop whining about your "Killzone 2 is the best game evaah, OMAGAAWD". It won't do as well as Halo 3, so why even bother.
Congratulations Microsoft and Bungie, and Xbox fans everywhere!
And I think it's safe to say the Xbox 360 will take 2nd place this generation, and 1st in the battle of hardcore... not just because of this game, but because the 360 is 1/3 ahead of the PS3 in total sales, and the console's top 4 selling games have outsold the PS3's number one selling game this generation. Unfortunately, PS3 fans hate discussing numbers, and opinion overrides any and all proven facts. In other words: emotion > logic.
I don't even see the point in fighting with PS3 fans now. We're going to win. Game over.
360 will never win sh!t. They will always be last. It's frightening to see how you back up a corporation that has delivered 4 good games in 4 years. Then you rant about sales like you actually have shares in MS. 10 million copies is a great achievment for Bungie and even though this game isn't for me, It's probably fun for alot of people. But come on, Halo 3, Gears 1&2 and ME? That's 1 good game/year for the 360. And mark my words, since everything is going downwards for the 360, it won't last past this year. MS will drop support and bring out the 720.
yea they replace all scratched disks for free. Also try not knock your console over when your playing, and you wont have that problem. Moving your 360 while its playing scratches disks, so it not that hard to leave it alone while your playing. For the past three years of constant 360 gaming, i have not had that problem.
Well, it further built on the party system on Halo 2, which I personally have not seen any party system as good as bungie to this date. COD's is fairly good now as well tho, I still prefer bungie's tho. Also Halo 3's video capture and forge are pretty dam amazing for a console game.
those are just there for players' convenience not really a redefining of the First Person Shooter genre, the just made the game convenient for the players to hop in and play with friends..
and on topic.. I played halo 1, it was great, moved to Halo 2, it was meh.. played halo 3 on a friend's 360, it felt like Halo 2 and since I didn't enjoy Halo 2 that made me feel like Halo 3 wasn't new.. so yea.. not hating on teh game, it's just didn't appeal to me.. I like games that feels like Cod4 and Counter-strike...
1. Vgchartz 2. It got outsold by Wii Fit 3. Since xbots care so much about sales this obviously means Wii Fit is a much better game than Halo (I guess it is the real Halo killer)
So wiifit is also better than anything ever released on the ps3, and going by wiifit sales itll be better than any games released on the ps3 for the rest of the generation.
someones a bit sour that their game doesnt sell as well as Halo 3.
If your bitter against sales data, your welcome to take a look at all the most reliable gaming sites and magazines to check out the very high review scores they gave Halo 3.
This is good, if only for the fact that it gives Xbot Butt-Buddies a reason to get up out of bed today.
"Yay!!!!! We recieve absolutely no monetary or gratuitous benefits from these sales numbers for Microsoft's games, but we still celebrate like fake F'n sheep all the same. Yay!!!!!"
@Blazin
I don't NEED a reason to get myself out of bed, because my daily life doesn't revolve around b*tching and moaning that a game for that videogame console in my living room sold more than another game for a different console that I don't own.
The sales numbers for PS3 hardware/software do not dictate my life, unlike idiot internet fanboys like you and your a$$ buddy down there right below you.
wow, for a decent game this sure has sold a lot, i know for damn sure that halo 2 was much better.
Props for Bungie on the creation and success of this franchise and redefining the genre along with it.
congratZ
360's causes disc scratching, hence why many Halo 3 players bought more than one copy.