Halo 3 - 1,000,000 sold in 1 day

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naznatips said:

Erik Aston said:
Well, day 1 Halo 3 sales SHOULD be lower than day 1 Halo 2 sales. Halo 2 had a larger install base and a lower price threshold. Even MS themselves never said they were aiming to beat Halo 2's day 1 unit sales, just revenue. IIRC, Halo 2 did about 2.5M first day, for $125M in revenue. MS actually wanted to beat Spiderman 3's $150M first day opening, to have the biggest 1 day total in entertainment history.

So if this 1M online transfers to 2M purchases, they would need the average price to be $75 to beat $150M, which could be possible with a minimum price of $60, and the highest SKU well above $100.

At worst, they should beat that Halo 2 number.

I expect there'll be an MS press release tomorrow or Thursday.

Hrmm. Good analysis. By your analysis though it seems unlikely that they will reach their goal of beating Spider-Man 3 with the early reports, unless jasonnic's link is accurate. However, I'm not too sure about that one since it would mean that 60% of Halo 3 owners never logged online even though their games come with 48 hours of free Xbox Live.

 I get those 48 hour cards all the time.  I also have a couple of 1 month cards.  I tossed them in the trash because I'm not interested in playing online.  Just not my cup of tea...  I know there are more like me...  Also keep in mind that a LOT of people will want to play through the campaign first before they go online -- especially users that are new to Halo because they KNOW they will get killed without some skills...