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by Cody Miller @, Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Friday, July 12, 2013, 08:18 (3944 days ago) @ Claude Errera


Halo 4 is the biggest seller of the Halo series appealing to the most people, but is it the best? I think we all know the answer to that.


Umm, what?

No, it isn't.

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=halo

Perhaps it reached some particular milestone faster than all others, but it hasn't been out long enough to even surpass Halo 2. So far it has only outsold ODST, the original, and Halo Wars.


Old data. Halo 4 is at 8.37 Million.


Um... I hung around on GAF long enough to learn that VGChartz can be wrong sometimes... but that's actually precisely the number it gives for Halo 4, globally. How is that old data?

http://news.xbox.com/2013/07/games-halo-4-top-seller


There are no numbers in that article, and they're talking about number of copies sold in a product's launch year - a relatively meaningless statistic when you're looking at products that have been on the market for 10+ years. It sold FASTER than anything else out of the gate (in the US, at least) - but only time will tell if that rate means anything about the continued sales down the road.

I was looking at that wrong. How confusing.


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