{
  "id": 648196,
  "title": "Halo: Campaign Evolved struggles to sell in anywhere near the quantities the recent Black Ops revivals did, and the probable reason? Lack of multiplayer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/halo-campaign-evolved-struggles-to-sell-in-anywhere-near-the",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-12T08:50:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Eurogamer",
    "slug": "eurogamer",
    "url": "https://www.eurogamer.net/halo-campaign-evolved-launch-sales-numbers"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of the original Halo 1 campaign and the first Halo game on PlayStation, has failed to sell in large numbers. The likely reason for this disappointing performance is the absence of multiplayer, according to Alinea Analytics. The game sold 1.2 million copies across Steam, PS5, and Xbox in two weeks, with Xbox leading sales at 42 percent, followed closely by PlayStation with 41 percent. Steam accounted for 17 percent of the sales. The game's strong performance on Xbox and PlayStation can be attributed to its availability as a day-one Game Pass release, which attracted around 2.1 million players on PC and console and 600,000 of them purchased the Premium Pass for early access. Analyst Rhys Elliott suggests that the $50 price point may have been too high for a game that doesn't include multiplayer, especially when compared to the cheaper $40 Master Chief Collection, which includes multiple Halo games and their multiplayer modes. Alinea estimates that Halo: Campaign Evolved generated $67 million in gross revenue, a far cry from the combined $435 million made by the recently released Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 ports. Elliott believes that the Black Ops ports' success was due to the inclusion of multiplayer, which Halo: Campaign Evolved lacks. The only feature the Halo remake lacked was multiplayer, which was a key factor in the enormous success of the Call of Duty ports, according to Elliott. He suggests that releasing a Master Chief Collection on PS5, complete with multiplayer, would have been much more successful than this campaign-only remake.",
  "summary": "Halo: Campaign Evolved - the remake of the original Halo 1 campaign and the first Halo game released on PlayStation - has struggled to sell in meaningful quantities, and the probable reason for it? A lack of multiplayer. Read more",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}