Halo 5: Guardians has managed to sell over $400 million during the first week after its release. This information represents a new record according to the video gaming producer Microsoft. This gets the lifetime commercial sales of the famous game series to over $5 billion, making Halo 5 the biggest week-selling rate of all Xbox One games until now. These are huge numbers for a single game and they could help Microsoft during its continuous fight with Sony models to place its gaming system ahead the PlayStation 4.
this is a first-person shooter, with gamers playing their missions through the perspective of a character. The perspective changes to third-person for a series of cinematic effects and game play series.
Halo: 5 maintains many of the primary features of the franchise’s famous emerging experience. Gamers get into their operated armor and control the character’s movements. The armor offers deflective protection, which is reduced while defending the person wearing it from weaponry fire but is renewed after a brief period. Lastly, if automobiles are present, the players can drive them whenever they want, without having to pause the entire game for a running screen or technical modifications.
The software producer did not say in detail the number of copies sold so far. But considering a $60 tag price, the figure may be over 6 million units marketed all over the world. Halo 5: Guardians obtained a ranking of 8 out of 10 based on the gaming evaluation aggregators and it is the best-rated console title released by Microsoft.
Overall, Halo 5 players have totaled than 20 million hours in this gaming experience, with more than half of them spent in campaign mode. Its multi-player mode has been played for 8 million hours of total time with around 6 million multi-player games across Warzone and Arena mode.
Halo 5 possess a Requisition System, in which people can collect points and obtain better equipment for their Warzone fights. Gamers have earned more than 40 million REQ features and 500 million cards. These are incredible numbers for a game platform that has a rather short history in the entertainment industry.
The game’s live mode also has a record title as the most-watched game release that has ever been transmitted, with over 300,000 streams during the day of the launch. Content from these broadcasters gathered 5 million views during the first days after the release. This made Halo: 5 the best-selling game for Xbox stores, but all these statistics have been published by Microsoft in its official reports.
Image source: Thisgengaming
Share this:
