christ!
i find halo a little dull myself, though i can definately see its appeal, just seems too much like a pc game for me, and all i have game-wise for pc is GTA3 and The Sims. [though i do play the odd flash game]

maybe its because its like a pc game that halo is so popular, as the pc gamers on this forum cant seem to stand console shooters due to the control sticks, oh wait, that logic doesn't work because you still need control sticks.

""""""""well yeah but we are forgetting the massive advertising campaign they are putting in place... """"""""

which one ?
where ?

The only video game campaign that I can easly see is about ..... Wii
Advertissement for Xbox360 or PS3 are so unfrequent

I could have swore somebody told me that Halo 3 already had like 4 million preorders. This sounds like a more realistic number. In any case, that is still a lot of preorders.

Didn't God of War II have a million preorders and then sell only half that the first week? It barely passed a million total in the US.

Sony's original announcement of the 1 million preorders was this:

"Just less than two weeks away from its PlayStation 2 release, God of War II has received top media review scores and fan anticipation, which has already spurred more than one million retail orders for the title, which launches March 13.  Based on the original classic that garnered more than a dozen Game of the Year Awards after its release in March 2005, God of War II is delivering on the high quality gameplay that made the franchise a household name in the industry.".

Many websites ran with it saying preorders, but were they talking about the same kind of preorders we are(consumers preordering it) or what theirs for retailers ordering it?  The only reason I ask is because I don't remember any stores promoting preorders for it (they may have though).

lol not now sorry I wasn't clear.... the campaign is most likely to start around the end of the month and last until mid november.... something like that... I was basing my argument on the fact that I have seen the advertsing campain budget somewhere and it is the highest ever in the video game industry I think... closing to the one of some movies....

you already can see some Halo commercial from december in theatre right now.. I have seen one before bourne ultimatum... you have already some stuff planned with BK (so i'm guessing it will start short after the Simson one) they have also different operation planned with other brand..... don't worry even me I'm not in an hurry for that... we are going to eat Halo 3 from every hole of the body.... even the fan will saturate....

I have already seen some sign out for the Halo game fuel mountain dew stuff somewhere.... and the game is coming in more than a month.... you don't start a campaign on TV to much before it hits the shelves... 

Probably retailer orders then, that happens in Japan a lot too, everyone always mixes up retailer preorders with consumer preorders. Assumedly this Halo 3 news is consumers. Maybe the 4 million number mentioned awhile back was retailer preorders? *shrug*

Just a rumor from gamestop for 4 million, but i would still think it would be more then a million, but still going to sell huge no matter what.

it is going to sell huge... do you think it can beat Nintendogs? I am a Nintendo/Sony fanowner, but I really hope that Halo 3 beats Nintendogs, just to show that the hardcore/core-casual still have the power over the market.

Hope Halo 3 beats Halo 2s record.