GameDaily estimates Halo 3 Sells 2.48 Million Units on Day One

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tabsina said:
I think its WW

Nuh, this is US alone.

They took the 170 million estimate for NA sales, then asked a major retailer the breakdown, and they said for every 4 Halo 3 regular editions they sold, they sold two Limited Edition Halo 3's, and one Legendary edition.

Their math:

 

The breakdown suggests that 14 percent of copies were legendary, 29 percent were limited edition, and 57 percent were standard edition. Applying those percentages to the $170 million total, and then dividing each individual dollar total by the MSRPs of $59.99, $69.99 and $129.99 yields the following unit totals:

• Standard edition: 1,600,000
• Limited edition (aka scratched discs edition): 694,000
• Legendary edition: 187,000

 

Adding the numbers up gives us a grand total of 2.48 million units sold on the first day, significantly higher than the 1.7 million copies that Microsoft said were pre-ordered, meaning that another 700,000 or so people bought the game without any pre-order. If correct, then Halo 3 did indeed edge out Halo 2 in unit sales as well - Halo 2 sold 2.4 million copies in the first 24 hours.