tell me the leak of Halo2 hurt M$ or Bungie and I'll call you a fucktard....
just goes to show you, you can hype horseshit to the extent that the masses would go out and buy horseshit for any amount of $$$...
-Psyber
MS Sees $100 Million First Day for 'Halo 2'
Tue Nov 9, 2004 12:11 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - First-day sales of MS Corp.'s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) new video game "Halo 2" will reach $100 million, a senior MS games executive said on Tuesday.
"I'm calling a $100 million day on 'Halo' today," Peter Moore, a corporate vice president in MS's games division, said at a Harris Nesbitt investment conference in New York.
The game, in which a super-soldier called "Master Chief" must save the earth from aliens, went on sale around the world on Tuesday, with thousands of stores opening their doors to eager customers just after midnight last night.
In addition to 1.5 million pre-sold units, Moore said one retailer sold 8,500 units in the first 11 minutes of sales, while another sold 200,000 units by daybreak Tuesday.
Analysts expect "Halo 2" to sell a total of about 10 million units, with some projecting up to half of those sales coming in November. The original "Halo" sold 5 million units and remains the best seller on the Xbox to date. (Additional reporting by Franklin Paul in New York)
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