{"id":87152,"date":"2026-08-05T15:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87152"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:37:00","slug":"halo-on-ps5-is-off-to-a-slow-start-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87152","title":{"rendered":"Halo On PS5 Is Off To A Slow Start, Expert Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time ever, a Halo game is available on PlayStation with Halo: Campaign Evolved. The game is having a &#8220;notably slow start&#8221; on Sony&#8217;s console in terms of sales, however, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/alineaanalytics.substack.com\/p\/julys-top-playstation-games-by-copies\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/alineaanalytics.substack.com\/p\/julys-top-playstation-games-by-copies\">gaming analyst Rhys Elliott<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He estimated that Campaign Evolved sold 351,000 copies on PS5 during July and 452,000 to date, generating nearly $28 million. By comparison, Elliott said Campaign Evolved has shifted 212,000 units on Steam and about 900,000 on Xbox across console and PC thus far. <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7LimYD3Ycwo  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The analyst said the game&#8217;s price point&#8211;$50&#8211;was partly to blame. &#8220;Fifty dollars for what\u2019s essentially a graphical touch-up of a 2001 game was always going to be a hard sell, and players clearly weren\u2019t having it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond graphical improvements, Campaign Evolved also features three new prequel missions via the Operation Meteorite story arc. Multiplayer is what Halo is perhaps best known for, but Campaign Evolved&#8211;as its name suggests&#8211;does not feature multiplayer support. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also in his comments, Elliott said the slow start for Halo on PS5 &#8220;stings even more&#8221; when compared to the success of the Black Ops 1 and 2 ports on PlayStation. Those games reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/black-ops-1-and-2-ports-sold-11-million-copies-combined-on-playstation-benefitting-both-xbox-and-sony\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/black-ops-1-and-2-ports-sold-11-million-copies-combined-on-playstation-benefitting-both-xbox-and-sony\/\">combined to sell more than<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, a Halo game is available on PlayStation with Halo: Campaign Evolved. The game is having a &#8220;notably slow start&#8221; on Sony&#8217;s console in terms of sales, however, according to gaming analyst Rhys Elliott. He estimated that Campaign Evolved sold 351,000 copies on PS5 during July and 452,000 to date, generating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":87154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87155,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87152\/revisions\/87155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}