Comments on: Halo 3 sells millions (and it’s not out yet)

By: jm

jm — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:33:27 +0000

One thing is for sure, I know at least a guy who preordered it before even getting the 360… ME!!!

alas… my console should be home this weekend, but it adds some more “realism” to this whole post.

By: Master cheif

Master cheif — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:03:00 +0000

i had pre ordered my halo 3 last christmas and they were almost out of pre orders i agree that it will be a big hit

By: waka

waka — Fri, 18 May 2007 05:13:32 +0000

i want my halo 3

By: Cory

Cory — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:29:25 +0000

Geez. Right you are Joe. My enthusiasm for Halo took over.

And I updated the post on the pre-sale numbers.

Thanks, guys. It’s Friday, right?

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:22:03 +0000

…submitting again to escape the moderation wait…

And by the way, you might want to qualify the “most popular console video game of all time” statement.

Super Mario Bros alone has over 40 million units sold (that’s not including all the other Mario games). That’s worldwide. Any of the three core GTA games has more units sold than Halo 1 or 2.

And if you’re going to lump Halo 1 and 2 together as a franchise, there are dozens of franchises that have sold more, including Spyro the Freakin’ Dragon.

All available here on wikipedia under “best selling video game”

If there’s another way to determine “most popular” than by sales, I’d like to hear it. Also note that Microsoft (like Sony) reports “units sold” as equal to “units shipped to retailers.”

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:25:33 +0000

Hilarious “article”.

Kicks off with an unrelated Spider-Man 3 comment…

…flies right into the spurious verification “at five different Greater Cincinnati Gamestop locations”…

..then the confus-o-typo: “however company a document showing this information was not revealed”…

…then the backhanded compliment: “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***” (emphasis mine)…

It is very well possible that Halo 3 pre-orders are this huge - after all, it’s the only reason most people even considered either Xbox system - but the fanboy press doesn’t do it any favors.

The real question is, why all the Xbox/Halo coverage on LR? I demand equal time for DS/Pokemon.

By: !nvitedmedia

!nvitedmedia — Fri, 11 May 2007 12:18:28 +0000

currently a major problem with alot of tv people… they think they are “smarter” than alot of other folks.

By: S Mark

S Mark — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:05:43 +0000

Come on, you are smarter than this article. How many XBOX 360s have been sold? If this was true, that would mean almost half of all owners have registered with gamestop for a pre-order? Gamestop doesn’t account for 1/2 let alone 1/4 of any games total sales, but in this case they do?

But hey the clerk said it must be true, so it must right??