In just one week after his worldwide launch, Halo 5: Guardians has made history with the biggest Halo launch event and fastest-selling Xbox One exclusive game to-date. Halo 5 has more than $400 million in global sales, including games and hardware, pushing the Halo franchise to over $5 billion lifetime. Halo 5: Guardians is also the most played of any game on Xbox One, as well as the most played on Xbox Live, in just a week after his release.
Halo 5 register more than 21 million hours of total gameplay, which 12 million are just related to the campaign mode. On the multiplayer modes, there are a total of 9 million hours played with nearly 7 million multiplayer matches from both Arena and the new Warzone mode. Regarding the new REQ system, there were already acquired more that 45 million REQ Packs, which totalizes more than 568 million REQ Cards.
The Halo 5: Live event earned the spot on the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS for the most watched video game launch event broadcast with more than 330,000 unique streams during the event broadcast. After that, the views of the VOD were raised to 5.5 million total views in a week. Which results in a spike for the digital sales of Halo 5: Guardians, making it the best-selling digital game ever in the Xbox Store for an opening week.
“The success of Halo 5: Guardians is a testament to the innovative work from the entire team at 343 Industries to bring this installment to Xbox One and the incredible community of fans who have come to love the story, characters and gameplay central to the franchise,” said Phil Spencer, head of Xbox. “The game represents all the possibilities of Xbox One and has earned its place as the anchor title in the greatest holiday games lineup in Xbox history.”
Fans all around the world have discovered the highest rated Xbox One exclusive and first-person shooter game of 2015, according to Metacritic. On Twitter a custom emoji of Master Chief appeared (the first ever made for a video game franchise), which is the result of Twitter’s hunt for partnership with iconic global brands. Over on Twitch, Halo 5 was also the most streamed Xbox One exclusive, with more than 3 million hours watched just in the first week of its release.
Source: Xbox Wire
João is a games journalist, Senior Editor at XDA Developers. They contributed 156 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: previously reported for Neowin before joining XDA Developers in 2021, where he leads coverage of Windows, Microsoft, and hardware.