In another thread one of the posters said their GS had 200 copies of the game, which puts their numbers at about the same as GTA4 on the PS3.

As I've said before, I went to 2 different gamestops in my town. The first had OVER 300 pre-orders and the second one had around 200 pre-orders. That's pretty damn impressive I thought for a farming town.

Man, I can't wait till we get to see the data

One thing must be said about GTA IV's less than expected success (*): even if it's well done, a good game, it's the 4th of its series, and this is true also for MGS4, but while very good stealth games aren't so common and so every good new title is heartily welcome from all genre's fan, nobody can deny that much of GTA series' charm comes from the thrill of breaking the rules, and about this we had the previous GTA titles, Kingpin, Postal 1 and 2, Bully, Manhunt and countless others, while even most of the best RPGs may be played as a ruthless character, so this thrill is quite watered down, paradoxically more in good games that rely less on it and are surpassed by chep game that rely more on easy shock: what happens after is that more mature gamer risk to underrate a violent but good game, while thrillseekers will snub the good violent game because it hasn't enough cheap violence for their tastes.

(*)  Hey, it's very successful, but lots of people expected even more success for it and less success than it's having since its launch for MGS4, so here I'm not talking about absolute success, but about GTA4 and MGS4 success in relation to each other and to other games.

Maybe 1 million first day isn't such a crazy idea, no?

Honestly if this game doesn't have a 80-90% attatch rate I will be stumped as to why. It is quite simply the most amazing game I've played in at least 10 years. It has had more fun jaw dropping moments then any game I can remember since FFVII and the original MGS on PS1. I agree with the IGN review where they say at the end they wish they could turn the score up to 11 Spinal Tap style. At least until next year this game is pretty much the showcase for HD gaming.