Over One Billion Games of Halo 3 Played

by Rob Walker | March 3, 2009 at 06:32 am

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Over one billion games have been logged on Microsoft's famous Halo 3, totalling over 64 thousand *years* of time spent playing the game. This doesn't even include custom or offline games, so the number could be much higher.

Halo 3 was released in September of 2007, and as of January 2008 had sold 8.1 million copies, making it the best-selling videogame of 2007 in the US.

But admittedly, that's working from a pretty rough estimate. No worries, we keep tabs on this sort of stuff. We recruited our database guru, RocketMoose, to provide us with some more accurate numbers. The data point he supplies below is a sum total of all player time spent in matchmaking. If ten players completed a ten minute match, the database would log 100 minutes of total playtime. This figure also does not include data from Custom or Offline matches.

Total Matchmaking Playtime: 2,023,153,340,764 seconds.

Yes, that's two Trillion seconds, or 64,109 years of playtime.