It would be nice to know for sure the real number of preorders.... The hype is getting out of hand, though. How many times has any movie that you can remember lived up to the hype when it made so many public appearances in food, toys, media, etc.?
The 4M pre-orders has pretty much been debunked (at least concerning the original May 10 posting). It certainly wouldn't surprise me if preorders are quite a bit higher than 1M, though. Gameston/EB games has something like 4000 stores and if they average 200/store that's 800K alone without any online orders whatsoever. Apparently they account for about 1/4 of gaming sales. I would guess that Halo 3 will reach the same preorder or slighltly higher status that Halo 2 did.
Just a side note -- the Gamestop near my house (quite a small store) said they have about 225 preorders (and counting) so far... That's an awful lot for a single store -- especially considering I'm way the hell out in the burbs and it's a smaller store.
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Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong. Yes, Pong.
