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Halo 3 pre-orders over 4 million?

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efjay

Discussion Starter · May 10, 2007

Xbox Evolved is reporting Gamestop officials are saying 4 million Halo 3 pre-orders have been taken:

http://www.xe360.com/article/Halo_3/3837.html

"by: John Olin

May 10, 2007

According to Gamestop officials, over four million preorders have been made for Halo 3 on Xbox 360. Xbox Evolved has verified this information at five different Greater Cincinnati Gamestop locations, including Gamestop stores, EB Games stores, and Funcoland stores, all under the same umbrella. This information was verified at all locations, however company a document showing this information was not revealed.

In the coming months, if this information is verified this would be the most preordered videogame of all time. Many of Gamestop's employees believe that a large portion of the preorders are being made by consumers that don't even own a Xbox 360, that are just waiting for the price of the system to go down.

In comparison, Grand Theft Auto IV's combined PS3 and 360 preorders at the chain of stores comes in a very distant second. Microsoft reported three weeks before the release of Halo 2 in 2004 that the combined retail outlet preorders for the title was 1.5 million, which at the time was a record in itself. Gears of War, the best-selling title on Xbox 360 has worldwide barely cracked the four million mark. If this is all true, it is very likely that Halo 3 will outsell even Halo and Halo 2 combined. We will have more as it develops."

If true what do you think will be the next game to top these numbers?

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danieloneil01

· #2 · May 10, 2007

I'm really in the minority then..

And 4 million pre-orders for a video game is a big accomplishment to say the least..

RobertR1

· #3 · May 10, 2007

And this doesn't include places like Best Buy, Walmart and other such stores......if true!

uscboy

· #4 · May 10, 2007

If it weren't for me, they'd be at only 3,999,999 which wouldn't sound nearly as good!

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dpe8598

· #5 · May 10, 2007

Very impressive. This surprises me, because most people I knew were disappointed in Halo 2. Nevertheless, I know a lot of people still love Halo 2.

jocktheglide

· #6 · May 10, 2007

my bet is that 3 millino of them are PS3 lovers and have not came out of the closet yet for the 360 for Halo in general. I know guys who on this forum and PS forums love Halo, but wont buy it because its on the 360 so what they do is buy PC for halo and play it on there and love the game....

im one of them.

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rdank

· #7 · May 10, 2007

No wonder gamestop is making money. That article shows they are making bank off keeping a list of who can buy it first. I'd imagine it's decent interest on $20-$40 mil over six months; all for basically nothing.

jocktheglide

· #8 · May 10, 2007

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Originally Posted by rdank /forum/post/0

No wonder gamestop is making money. That article shows they are making bank off keeping a list of who can buy it first. I'd imagine it's decent interest on $20-$40 mil over six months; all for basically nothing.

good point imagine the interest like you said before its even released damn...easy money.

eyerox

· #9 · May 10, 2007

Halo 2 hits 5 million players!
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.a...news&cid=12425

Posted by sawnose at 5/9/2007 1:09 PM PDT

Moments ago, we watched the odometer of Halo 2 players roll over the 5,000,000 mark. Today also happens to be the 2.5-year anniversary of launch. Here's to continued growth of 2 million players per year!

If you're curious, "ultra theodore" is the 5 millionth player.

(This number refers to the number of unique Live accounts that have played Halo 2 online, not including guests)

Edit - I also just noticed that we're a few hours away from 700 million unique multiplayer games on Live. (The largest number, player-games, where each game counts once per player in it, will hit 5 billion in a few weeks)

So, 5 million people total have played Halo 2 over 2.5 years, yet there are 4 million preorders. This game better be good

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257Tony

· #10 · May 10, 2007

If that is true and they all count towards the launch day sales, Halo3 will smash Halo 2's record of $125,000,000 in single day sales. halo 3 could be somewhere near $300,000,000 if some of those are for the Legendary edition.

5150

· #11 · May 10, 2007

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Originally Posted by eyerox /forum/post/0

So, 5 million people total have played Halo 2 over 2.5 years, yet there are 4 million preorders. This game better be good

No, it says 5 million gamer tags have played Halo 2. That doesn't correspond to the actually number of people who have played the game, and it doesn't correspond to the number of Xbox Live! members who have played it, either.

joe_six_pack

· #12 · May 10, 2007

Damn. So much for my idea of ebaying the collector's edition.

BTW anyone want to buy some of these preorders off me? I have a million or so to unload.

Davio

· #13 · May 10, 2007

This is actually pretty amazing. Someone mentioned above this is just GAMESTOP, let alone amazon, best buy, wal mart, Target. I barely got around to preordering Halo 2 so I imagine there will be a huge rush on day 1 for non-pre orders.

The game is still months away too.....

ArchieGates

· #14 · May 10, 2007

That seems pretty hard to believe. 4 million pre-orders at just one store chain? Color me skeptical. How would going to 5 local stores in Cincinatti tell how many copies have been pre-ordered for the entire chain?

I could see 4 million for all stores, but that would have to include Wal-Mart, Best Buy, CC, Target, etc...

The article's author doesn't even seem all that sure.

"If this is all true, it is very likely that Halo 3 will outsell even Halo and Halo 2 combined. We will have more as it develops."

Wait a minute, you just told us it was true. Now you're saying "if" it's true? Hmmm.... Sounds like a way just to get more hits for their website ads.

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HorrorScope

· #15 · May 11, 2007

Yeah hard to believe. They are sitting on 240 million dollars of pre-order love and with 4600 stores each store has averaged 869 pre-sales each? No F'in way... Laughable. So each store is going to get roughly 1000 copies then? ha ha ha

aaronwt

· #16 · May 11, 2007

I preordered Halo3 from Amazon in October last year. At the time it was showing a march release.

kylebisme

· #17 · May 11, 2007

Amazing how many people will put money down on pre-orders of products that won't have supply limitations.

dpe8598

· #18 · May 11, 2007

But but but but, if I give them my money I'm more hardcore right?

Seriously, I think it makes some people feel closer to the game even if they are in reality no closer at all.

RobertR1

· #19 · May 11, 2007

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Originally Posted by kylebisme /forum/post/0

Amazing how many people will put money down on pre-orders of products that won't have supply limitations.

It's no different than pre-ordering a movie off amazon. It's conveinet and you're guaranteed a copy (hopefully). For me, I got a good discount on pre ordering by getting free MS points from Best Buy. I was going to get Halo3 anyway so that incentive sealed the deal.

To top it off, I won't have to worry about making sure I get to the store early to get my copy on launch day.

aaronwt

· #20 · May 11, 2007

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Originally Posted by kylebisme /forum/post/0

Amazing how many people will put money down on pre-orders of products that won't have supply limitations.

Amazon doesn't charge your credit card until it ships, so it costs nothing to preorder. Just like all my BD/HD DVD preorders. The creditcard isn't charged until the title ships.

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