Halo 3 Preorders Reach Over Four-Million

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Halo 3 Preorders Reach Over Four-Million in North America

While Spider-Man 3 is breaking records at the box office, Halo 3 is apparently breaking records of its own?before it is even out. b>

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.

Source - Xbox-Evolved

If that turns out accurate, that's just mind-blowing.

-Spenser

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I find that hard to believe. There are like 10/11 million consoles in the wild, supposing half those gamers are going to buy the game, then everyone decided to pre-order? And that's just from those stores...

umm did you even read the article?

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.
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i was thinking of preordering, I mean halo 3 = no brainer, but I always thought they would have more than enough copies to go around. Oh and how crazy is it that they have 4 million preorders and I bet you there are a lot of people like me who are getting it but wont be counted in the prorder numbers- CRAZY!

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Tyrion Lannister

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Screw preordering. I'm not getting that Gamestop any of my money. I'll just walk into a store the day H3 is released and buy it.

They aren't going to sell out. H2 was NO WHERE near a sell out.

Uh, they're going to get your money anyhow. It's not like you're paying EXTRA to have it reserved/guaranteed.

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Screw preordering. I'm not getting that Gamestop any of my money. I'll just walk into a store the day H3 is released and buy it.

They aren't going to sell out. H2 was NO WHERE near a sell out.

gamestop's not the only place that preorders. do it somewhere else :shifty:

that's awesome that halo 3 has that many preorders. i haven't done it yet, but i'm planning to soon. question though, people haven't believed in gamestop before, so why would they listen to them now? i'm sure that halo 3 will sell many many copies, but i'm taking that four million with a grain of salt.

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I was thinking it might be more since there are 10 mill 360 owner and lot of people who don't even own 360 has ordered it the that's just 20 to 25% of 360 owner had preordered.

Umm, well this is just for America, which is only up to 5 million 360s. So that's 80% not even including any other stores. And it's still half a year from launch. Xbox Evolved is the only one reporting this? Hmm.

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