Analysts also noted that Microsoft's Xbox console saw unit sales rise almost 52 percent in the month over a year earlier, while Sony's PlayStation 2 had an 18 percent year-over-year unit decline.
Add to that $125 million of halo 2 sales in the first 24 hours after it was released (a new record).
Plus 5 million Halo units sold worldwide in just 3 weeks.
Then we have the 'Halo 2'strategy Book which became Random House's Best Seller Since Clinton, and the huge Halo 2 effect on online gaming and we have the biggest thing to hit video games for a very long time.
And a very nice bump in Microsoft's revenues and earnings for this quarter.
Personally , I think the games division may just break even for the December quarter.
http://www.entertainment-news.org/breaking/12481/halo-2-book-randoms-best-seller-since-clinton.htmlI'm not one who is into the whole "video games" craze, (and it's not allowed in my house either) but I remember when Halo "1" first came out, and the obsessiveness about it... Halo 2 now shows up and has taken over the popularity charts with it's not-so-new alien fighting, and player-against-player fighting. And, indeed, the graphics have since improved.
Now, I may not really be "all knowing" about such games as this (cause I find it not really exciting) but isn't it really the same thing with any other battle-one-another and fight-against-aliens game? what makes Halo 2 such a grand hit?
Even more hundreds of millions of mostly profits into Microsoft's coffers this quarter from Halo 2 alone, after spending max $30 million on developing and marketing Halo 2.
The Microsoft Financial Juggernaut continues unabated. :)