Now that the Halo 3 beta has been over with for over 72 hours, some statistics for those number crunchers out there to feast upon. First off, with 820,000 unique gamertags playing online, that's a lot of copies of Crackdown, probably well over 750,000 after you deduct the initial beta registrants, 13,333 "Rule of 3" winners, and Friends and Family testers. Those gamers also logged twelve million hours of play time in the three weeks, with 350 terabytes of data being transfered across live, from downloading the beta, as well as possibly bandwidth for games, and file share movies. Either way, that's pretty impressive.
Now that the Halo 3 beta has been over with for over 72 hours, some statistics for those number crunchers out there to feast upon. First off, with 820,000 unique gamertags playing online, that's a lot of copies of Crackdown, probably well over 750,000 after you deduct the initial beta registrants, 13,333 "Rule of 3" winners, and Friends and Family testers. Those gamers also logged twelve million hours of play time in the three weeks, with 350 terabytes of data being transfered across live, from downloading the beta, as well as possibly bandwidth for games, and file share movies. Either way, that's pretty impressive.
Reader Comments (12)
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 11:25AM DjDATZ said
The most impressive statistic to me was "1,400 years of continuous play by one person". Thats alot.
I think Bungie got everything they wanted out of the Halo 3 Beta and more...
I think Bungie got everything they wanted out of the Halo 3 Beta and more...
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 11:32AM (Unverified) said
I'm sorry that my 360 died on June 1st, 2007!! It would have been more!! This only proves that Halo 3 will be the MOST played game on LIVE or any where else!!
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 12:14PM (Unverified) said
Wow, I can't even comprehend that. 1400 years is obsurd. How many people was it? 35,000?
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 11:44AM AndyL said
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 11:56AM AndyL said
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 12:07PM (Unverified) said
VGChartz isn't exactly dead-on accurate or reliable.
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 12:13PM (Unverified) said
Wow.. that's a lot of wasted time.
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 12:17PM (Unverified) said
Hey Massive, you wouldn't happen to be trolling would you? Now for some real tears, stay tuned for the NPD numbers this Thursday, I'm sure the ps3 will be under the 100,000 mark once again.
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 12:22PM DjDATZ said
"Wow, I can't even comprehend that. 1400 years is obsurd. How many people was it? 35,000?"
820,000 Unique Gamertags...
820,000 Unique Gamertags...
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 12:40PM (Unverified) said
well I know I didnt really add much to those numbers. By their numbers, the average beta player played 14 hours.... I dont think I played 5. Some people must have logged some serious hours into it.
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 1:19PM DjDATZ said
I logged over 50 hours... 2 days, 6 hours, 6 minutes to be precise...according to liveEye... (Although...a tiny portion of it was spent in away status...)
http://360friendspot.com/liveeye/profile.asp?tag=DjDATZ
http://360friendspot.com/liveeye/profile.asp?tag=DjDATZ
Posted: Jun 13th 2007 1:41PM Krackalot said
Let me get this right Massive, you complain about how lame Halo and 360 is, try to direct us to a ps3 site that we probably can't afford to navigate, and then show us numbers of the ps3 getting smoked in all territories, exept the 360 doesn't beat it in Japan, the Wii does though. The best part is almost as many people played the beta, as bought PS3's, burn....
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