Halo 3 perorders 4 million?

[HappySqurriel]

Legend11 said:

HappySqurriel said:
4 Million preorders seems unrealistically high ... it would mean that (roughly) 2/3 of people who bought Halo 2 would have pre-ordered Halo 3 which doesn't seem reasonable to me ...

5 million people have played Halo 2 online which is pretty addictive, why is it unreasonable to believe that 4 million people would preorder it?

Just how people work ...

Usually, only a small percentage of people who buy a game pre-order it (as a guess somewhere in the 10% to 20% range); 4 Million people would be somewhere in the 40% to 80% pre-order range.

Also, are you certain 5 Million people played Halo 2 online? I thought there were only about 2 Million XBox Live accounts on the XBox ...