Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta: Huge Mistake?

[Neo2007]

FishyJoe said:

I wonder about these pre-orders. GoW2 had over a million pre-orders, yet it has only sold around one million. Pokemon D/P had only a half million pre-orders, but has sold almost 2.4 million.

So it seems pre-order numbers are completely worthless.

Really? hmmmm? link?