Two hot games were responsible for driving November sales up 11%. Reuters reported that Halo 2 sold 3.3 million copies and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas sold about 1.5 million copies. Reuters reports that without these two games sales would have fallen in November 2004. Xbox also reported strong sales probably thanks to the popularity of Halo 2. Xbox sales in November, 2004 soared over 50% when compared to November, 2003 sales.