ODST Sales
The October sales data has finally come out and we can get a better look at how well Halo 3: ODST sold. In September the game launched selling 1,520,000 copies in North America and In October sold 271,000 copes. Microsoft has recently stated ODST has sold 3 million copies world wide. Considering this title didn't get nearly as much advertisement as Halo 3 received or feature the main character from the previous games, it's fairly impressive.
The game probably didn't appeal to most Halo 3 fans but did offer a new multiplayer mode and additional maps for Halo 3 multiplayer. It was clearly mentioned people could trade in their current Halo 3 game for ODST because ODST would contain all Halo 3 multiplayer maps. I think the core Halo fans picked this game up for the new campaign mode and to return to the Halo universe.
One still has to wonder how well this game would have sold if Firefight was open to multiplayer like Horde Mode in Gears of War 2 or Left 4 Dead. Instead they packed in a short campaign mode and packed in all the DLC already released (except for three new maps) for Halo 3 which most Halo 3 fans probably already owned. The gaming world has drastically changed this generation with the Halo franchise falling down a few notches in the FPS world with games like Modern Warefair and Gears of War taking large sections of the online shooter pie away from Bungie. Hopefully Bungie is working hard at releasing a true block buster game in Reach which should be released next Fall.
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