Halo3 what will it do.

[mrstickball]

montrealsoon said:
mrstickball said:

>>Halo 3 will sell no less than 7m units. The pre-orders by consumers is absolutely staggering.


Is there an actual number associated to the total pre-orders?

I am not doubting the 7m, but don't see the connection between "absolutely staggering" and "ungodly" to "7m".

Just curious.

There is no actual number for US/NA preorders. Nevertheless, as I said, Anihawk at NeoGAF stated at his EB/GS had 344 preorders (more than any other games he mentioned preorder numbers for, combined. Including MP3, Bioshock, SMG, SSBB, GH3, GTAIV, and a few others). And again, he stated that was about 80% of H2s preorders. With 2 months left, that'd be real good.

So I would assume that with numbers like that, it should easily pass H2's US install base (6.6m) globally, and should certainly get more. H2 was very fronloaded in the fact it had such a large (by comparison to H1)'s install base. However, even though the X360 has about 2/3rds the Xbox's install base, you don't always need an uber-high install base to keep selling well. H1 managed 5m+ copies, and was a launch title, like many other games.