Halo 3 sales reach $300 million in first week

[Gazz]

cowbourne said:
2.7 unique users on Halo 3 that connected to Xbox Live.

Microsoft stated in a previous press release that 40% of consoles are not connected to Live even through a Silver account.

2.7m = 60% of Halo 3 owners.

4.5m = 100% of Halo 3 owners? Nah, probably not, but there could possible be between 3.5-4 million sales in the first week. Very impressive.

Don't forget that a certain percentage of the people online had a pirated copy of the game, so 2.7 million doesn't represent the actual number of paying customers. I did some digging into that some time ago for a similar topic on Gamershell forums and just general torrentsites alone had 100.000+ downlaods and that's not counting private sites, newsgroups, limewire and all that stuff.

I think it's reasonably  fair to assume that somewhere between 10-20% of all those users had a warez copy so these numbers are not completely reliable.