Halo Wars Sells A Million Copies In Only 3 Weeks
Microsoft’s latest plunge into the Halo universe has already surpassed the 1 million copy sold mark, making Halo Wars the best-selling real-time strategy game on a current-generation console.
Nearly 3 weeks after the game’s initial launch in Asia, Halo Wars has sold more than one million copies worldwide, which Microsoft says makes it the best-selling real-time strategy title on the current crop of consoles. Naturally, real-time strategy titles don’t historically do too well on consoles in the first place, but still, a million copies is a rather impressive number.
Microsoft also offered up some more numbers with their announcement. Did you know that 2.6 million multiplayer matches have been played since Halo Wars launched, or that 118 years worth of time have been spent playing the game on Xbox Live? Well now you do. No need to thank us.
The lesson here is having Halo in the name of your game certainly does move a lot of copies, though nowhere near as many as an actual Halo first-person shooter title. To put things in perspective, Halo 3 had 1.7 million preorders. Still, good job to Ensemble Studios & Microsoft for this achievement.
