Halo 2 Sells Five Million

Microsoft has announced that Halo 2 has sold over five million copies worldwide. That figure easily makes Halo 2 the most popular Xbox title ever. Microsoft also stated that during the Thanksgiving week, Xbox console and Xbox Live subscriptions also increased in sales compared to the same week in 2003. The 50% increase of console sales was driven by the hugely anticipated (and mega-hyped) Halo 2.

Nintendo has sold over 500,000 units of the Nintendo DS over the first seven days of release in North America. Nintendo was able to get 90% of the available Nintendo DS stock to customers during the first week, as Nintendo continues to produce DS handhelds as quickly as it can to satisfy the huge demand.

Rise Of The Kasai (the prequel to Sony's Playstation 2 hit The Mark Of Kri) will not feature online play. Sony gave no reason for the axed feature. Rise Of The Kasai was to allow two gamers to each control one of the two heroes of the game and cooperate together online.