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I know, you want to know why I put a question mark in the title. Typically, when a big game goes gold, the publisher will send out an announcement declaring it’s done and ready for production, complete with horns blowing and angels descending from the heavens. Not in this case though. This time we find out through an Aussie interview piece, not Microsoft. According to an interview with Bungie executive producer Joseph Tung with The Sydney Morning Herald, the game is done.

 

Right away, the first question was "So, it’s done, right?" to which Tung responded "We went gold last night, so yeah, it’s pretty much in the can. It is a weight off my chest to know that we went gold. It was a little bit scary to leave on the tour before we’d actually got the rubber stamp."

Considering we are still a little over a month before the official launch, having the game 100% should be great for both Microsoft and Bungie as they begin to ramp up the inevitably massive media blitz that will surround what is said to be Bungie’s final creative romp through the Halo universe.

 



 

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Halo: Reach has gone gold 14 days earlier than Halo 3, so they expect bigger first week sales than 3.8 mill then?

Halo 3 - Gold 29th August - 27 days before release
Reach - Gold 4th August - 41 days before release



 

Seece said:

Halo: Reach has gone gold 14 days earlier than Halo 3, so they expect bigger first week sales than 3.8 mill then?

Halo 3 - Gold 29th August - 27 days before release
Reach - Gold 4th August - 41 days before release

This was what I thought too....I think they are expecting to sell way more copies then 3.8 million hence the extra time needed to manufacture Halo Reach copies.

I expect MS to ship between 5-6 million Halo Reach copies first week.



Also its time to go crazy with advertisements!

I bet they will bring back gamerfuel (mountain dew) with Halo Reach, and probably have special bottles of Halo Reach soda too. 



I'm frothing at the mouth thinking about it!



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Yeah haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa



 

 

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value..."

 

Alan Greenspan, 1967

Can't wait for a very anticipated title that won't dissapoint.



 

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