Halo 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The game sold 2.4 million copies and earned up to $125 million US in its first 24 hours on store shelves, thus outgrossing the film Spider-Man 2 as highest grossing release in entertainment history. [3] As of 1 January 2005, the game had sold 6.3 million copies. According to a contemporary Wired Magazine issue, Halo 2 had a more profitable opening day than did the then-highest-grossing Hollywood film, Spider-Man. Some observers saw this as another milestone in the emerging dominance of the video game industry; a few years earlier, the video game industry had surpassed the movie industry in total revenues for the first time and had never relinquished its lead since then. I"