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Subject: Is Halo the number-one selling console game of all time?
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I was just wondering if it was because I simply don't know it. So, is there another game that got sold more than 4 million times. If there is one, which one is it?
I'm just curious, and of course I would like to see Halo "corpse-hump" all the othe console games.

  • 05.06.2004 8:34 AM PDT
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What I dont understand is how does a game get game of the year if there is like 4 other games already with it? Unless they go by catogory.
Anyway halo has won best game of the year as well as some other awards but I dont know what. We need a bungie Guru in here.

  • 05.06.2004 8:37 AM PDT
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Certainly it's no. 1 on xbox (Duh!) But do the ones that come for free with a package count as sales? Cos i work at a store that sells xboxes and we'd go through like 15 copies of halo a month, plus every pack that comes out includes halo. Do the packs count towards the number?

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Oh yea another game that has sold as much would be half life plus the add ons like blue shift and opposing force.
A game that has sold more than halo would be Counter Strike. Correct me if i'm wrong.
No one better say halo as an answer. That is an opinin not a fact. Dont get me wrong though my opininon is halo but factualy well read above.

[Edited on 5/6/2004 8:40:04 AM]

  • 05.06.2004 8:39 AM PDT
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Even though i prefer halo we all no that grand theft auto 3 has sold far more copies than any other game and is far more popular than halo. So both grand theft autos are well in front!

  • 05.06.2004 8:43 AM PDT
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Yeah. There's no doubt that it is number 1 selling on Xbox, but I was thinking about if it could outwit the Nintendo and Play Station games aswell. It probably does. About CS. CS is a computer game, so Halo is still leading in Category: Gaming systems.
Thanx for the info though.

  • 05.06.2004 8:43 AM PDT
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I think the packs would count, they did jack up the price for the Xbox packs with Halo in them to $169, compared to the $149 for just the Xbox. The money still goes to MS, so I'd assume they would count those numbers as well. I think it is the best selling console FPS ever though, considering it is still selling even after two years, and they only dropped the price a few months ago from $49.

  • 05.06.2004 8:44 AM PDT
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Four million sold doesn't even touch the 16-bit Mario games. Super Mario Bros. 3 alone sold something like 6.5 million copies. Four million sold is a great success, to be sure, but it's not close to Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, Mario 64, or Zelda: Ocarina of Time. This is of course if you don't count Madden...

Halo 2 will probably break the 5 million mark, I'd wager. Halo 1 was a bit of a gamble considering its long development cycle, and with it's success, the success of Xbox Live and the increasing amount of Xboxes sold, Halo 2 should prove to be a great hit in the holiday season.

  • 05.06.2004 8:58 AM PDT
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Halo 2 will sell more as people now know of halo. When halo 1 was out know one new what it was but now that it is (dare I say) famous people will buy it.
heres an idea bungie make the protective layer at the bottom of the disk abnormally thin so the disc wont work after like a scratch smaller than a needle head.
That way people will buy more copies. I am joking of course make disc nuclear bomb proof, no make the disc nuclear bomb immune! Aha ha ha I cra.. laugh

  • 05.06.2004 9:04 AM PDT

Goldeneye has sold at least 8 million copies. It probably is one of the the best selling games of all time- if not the best.

  • 05.06.2004 9:08 AM PDT
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Here's a list of the top 20 best selling games of all time.

Mario owns all.

  • 05.06.2004 9:58 AM PDT
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Yes and no
It is the best selling of all but not for long Halo 2 will out do everbody elses games.

  • 05.06.2004 10:13 AM PDT
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Hell, I heard, that they are still making those Mario games for the NES system. I can't believe Halo and SSBM did not make the list.

  • 05.06.2004 10:35 AM PDT
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i belive that halo 2 will seel a crap load more copies than halo becuase look at the impression halo one left on all of us. now think of the live demo trailer and think of playing that and say that its not going to sell a crap load. maybe not the most ever, but a crap load indeed. besides.....didn't people think halo was suppose to not do so good when it first came out....i dunno i didn't even here of it untill like 6 months after release....i've never been much of a gamer untill i player halo. WOO HALO!

  • 05.06.2004 11:57 AM PDT
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nintendo milks the mario brothers wrose than the olsen twins milk being identicle twins

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acctually you know i was thinkin....halo 2 might indeed rival the gta trilogy. not alot of you are thinking, "ohh bold statement" and i say yes it is but think about it. gta was fun becuase you could hijack people, run people over, blow stuff up and shoot people. in halo 2 you can do all that plus you don't get the annoying police after you when you do. and the hijacking of vehilces looks cooler as well. gta also has alot of cool weapons but so does halo 2. so ya i thin that gta fans will love the new halo so it might have a chance to be the best selling game.

  • 05.06.2004 12:14 PM PDT