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Halo 2 sold 2.4 million copies and earned up to US$125 million in its first 24 hours on store shelves, outgrossing the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as the highest-grossing release in entertainment history.

Halo 2 is the best-selling first-generation Xbox game with at least 6.3 million copies sold in the United States and 8.46 million copies in total.

In the first ten weeks of release, players collectively logged 91 million hours playing the game; By June 2006, more than 500 million multiplayer games of Halo 2 had been played, and more than 710 million hours logged on Xbox Live. Over five million players had played by 2007.

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