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jman8 on 24 September 2007

I know one who bought one 2 weeks ago



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friedtofu on 24 September 2007
elendar said:
My Buddy broke down and bought his for halo 3 a month or so ago. Another is on the fence I hope this makes him fall over to the evil side. I want more real life people on xboxlive.

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prlatino86 on 24 September 2007

yeah, i know 12 for sures, they all have halo 3 preordered, half have already bought their x360, others will be getting it in the mail soon.



Fuzzmosis on 24 September 2007

I can wait for a price cut and a failure rating that I find acceptable. Which is quite low. Plus a system that does not eat disks. But I work with 7 women aged 29+, a 35 year old gay guy, and an annoying 20 year old. Where I work, I'm the only one who's interested.

Now, since I work at a University, if I cared to listen, I'd probably find many more students.



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jasonnc80 on 25 September 2007

I was at gamestop at the 12:01 launch. Heard a couple people who were buying the game and didn't even own a system yet. Saw about 4-5 360's leave the store in the 1hr and a half I was there. I was mainly walking around talking to people so not sure if any other consoles were sold during the party.

The whole event was pretty crazy. The local strip mall had other stores open late to to accommodate all the people waiting around for halo. Gamestop also hosted a halo 2 tournament and guitar hero tournament which was pretty fun to watch. One of my friends working the store said there was around 600 preorders. I'd say there were easily that many people at the launch party, most everybody brought friends and the hype/anticipation seemed genuine. One thing that did make me lol was gamestop playing Red vs Blue on the PS3 displays throughout the night. All in all a great time. Glad I'm going into work late tomorrow :D



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Zom on 25 September 2007

Cousin is planning on picking up one this week for Halo it will definitely show in hardware sales that much is certain. I'm just curious now how much and for how long will the Halo bump will show up. I do think a lot of Halo fans already do own a 360 but there does seem to be a large amount too who do not so it will be interesting to watch for sure.



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tabsina on 25 September 2007

Nope, but quite a few 360 owners, some of which didn't even like the first two Halos, are picking up the game itself



Scruff7 on 25 September 2007

i know one guy, he was supposed to be buying carpets for his new flat, but instead bought an Elite. his housemate will be well chuffed. actually he really will.

saying that though, i know 2 people buying a PS3 cos of Warwark. they came over, played it for a while and decided Halo could wait.



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FinalEvangelion on 25 September 2007

Everyone I know that bought a 360 did so because of Halo, but one did in the last couple of weeks. I'm the only 360 owner I know that didn't get a 360 because of Halo.



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darkfire001 on 25 September 2007

I know roughly 3 people who have bought or are buying an Xbox 360 this week for Halo 3.



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