I would assume it has around or over 1m consumer preorders. At EB/GS, whenever you ask them for something, they always ask:
Do you want to pre-order Halo 3 ?
I asked them why the heck they'd ask that, and they said that everyone has H3 on preorder. They have well over 200 preorders as of last month. This is a smaller EB/GS, probably like KN. It's in a town of 30,000 people or so.
So I would say 1m preorders is probably close to what consumers actually have on order. 4m could be retailer orders/MS's shipment forecast of H3 on launch week.
Hopefully MS can hit 4m in the first 2-3 weeks for shipments. September 25th is going to be madness. I wish I could goto EB to look (and laugh). If EB/GS had enough stock to fill preoders on launch day + never sell out that week, we could be looking at 2 million copies first week pretty easily.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
