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Halo 5: Guardians sales top $400M in first week

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Halo 5: Guardians has sold more than $400 million in its first week on the market, setting new records according to video game publisher Microsoft.

That pushes the lifetime sales of the Halo series to more than $5 billion. It is means that Halo 5 (check out our review of the game) has the highest week-one attach rate for any Xbox One game so far (that is, it has the highest percentage of console owners purchasing the game for any Xbox One title to date). These are great numbers, and they should help Microsoft in its constant battle with Sony to make the Xbox One game console as popular as the PlayStation 4.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.