Halo 2 pre-orders surpass 1.5 million

Xbox News | Bungie’s epic sequel looks to break all records.

Halo 2 is set to break all records with its pending release on November 9. Pre-orders in the US alone have breached the 1.5 million mark with just under 3 weeks until its official launch. With sales figures set to climb, Halo 2 looks to smash all records for the entertainment revenue in 24 hours, currently held by such smash hit films as Spider-man 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Matrix: Reloaded.

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9 Comments

Anonymous

7 years ago

Gtpod

7 years ago

So much money needlessly wasted..

ObsoletE

7 years ago

it's a pity all that piracy spoilt sales...

it's good to see a game taking on movies in terms of speediest revenue raised, but i don't really think it's in the same league yet, since a movie ticket is still 1/8th of the price of a game...

Hyperworm

7 years ago

Yeah, but you can't really compare like that...
You effectively "rent" a movie when you go to see it in a cinema; you don't get to keep it. You get to keep games once you buy them. So comparing the price of a game with that of a movie ticket is probably a little unfair.

Maybe with a DVD.

On topic: omg.

Noogle

7 years ago

I don't see what the fuss is about - Vice City holds the record at nearly four million...

http://www.gameforms.com/news/?455

Microsoft would like to dispute the figure, but even a speculated 4 million places the game well above the 3.5 million mark. I'm still confirming that figure with Rockstar, though.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/10/06/news_6109802.html

Could we please aspire to slightly more research news reporting than just repeating what other sites are assuming?

Anonymous

7 years ago

Noogle, I completely agree with you.

I have my Halo 2 pre-order down, but this spin doctoring by Microsoft is annoying. Halo 2 isn't even close to breaking video game records ....

- In the U.S GTA Vice City, 4 million pre orders (even if u halve that, it still ranks #1)
- In the U.S., Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green each received over 1 million pre-orders
- In Japan Dragon Quest VII sold over 3 million pre-orders

The list goes on ...do a bit of decent research and you'll see.

merlingt

7 years ago

Shiny wrote

An informative and very interesting Guest Post. Is this a new trend?

Gtpod

7 years ago

We must get him to register.. Give him 100 $poons if he does, or something!

Anonymous

7 years ago

Break all records? The first game sold only 5 million copies worldwide! Every Mario game has sonld that many! (SMB1 sold more then ten times that ammount). Even Goldeneye sold twice Halo 1.

I suppose the pre-orders are because xbox owners have been waiting 3 years for a second good game on the machine.

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