Overview
- Third‑party firm Alinea Analytics published early sales estimates on Wednesday showing Halo: Campaign Evolved sold far fewer copies on PS5 than on Xbox and Steam.
- Alinea’s figures place Halo at roughly 900,000 sales on Xbox (console and PC app), about 452,000 on PlayStation to date and around 212,000 on Steam.
- The same estimates put Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 PS5 ports at about 28.2 million and 3 million copies respectively, a combined gap of roughly 11.2 million versus Halo on PS5.
- Analysts and player feedback point to Halo’s $60 launch price and the requirement to use an Xbox account on PS5 as major barriers, while Game Pass access and discounted upgrade paths on Xbox reduced the need for full‑price retail buys on that platform.
- All numbers are provisional estimates not published by Microsoft, and Alinea’s revenue math suggests the Black Ops PS5 ports generated about $435 million in sales on PlayStation with roughly $130 million going to Sony as its platform cut, findings that could affect future cross‑platform release decisions.