Pre-order Halo 3 for $69.99 Canadian

by Ken Weeks { Jul 7th 2006 at 2:00AM }

Best Buy and FutureShop are willing to take your Halo 3 money -- $69.99 to be exact -- right now. Estimated release date November 30, 2007:

Releases 30 Nov/07. A world in need of a hero. A mystery to unravel. In a time when the world needs him most, one man will step to the forefront to take his place in history.

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Action, adventure, suspense! What does this all mean? We haven't the slightest idea. Really - Bungie and Microsoft aren't saying a word. At this point you're either in or you're out anyway.

Not sure where they got that price. Hopefully it refers to some fancy collector's edition, or else Best Buy is just squeezing suckers. Either way, you in?

[Thanks Shylock]

Update: Several readers pointed out that price is in Canadian Dollars. Duh.

Tags: bungie, halo 3, Halo3, pre-order

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

sean @ Jul 7th 2006 2:36AM

nope

GOD @ Jul 7th 2006 3:07AM

Almost all "collector's edition" games aren't worth the extra cash. And the idea of pre-ordering games is silly. They will have more then enough to go around on launch day.

james f. @ Jul 7th 2006 3:07AM

Yeah we all better preorder! You KNOW they just might sellout!

Yeah Right.
Best Buy gets no video game out on the day it comes out. Why go through the hassle of pre-order to wait an extra day or two when you could have bought it at target on launch day.

GOD @ Jul 7th 2006 3:12AM

"Best Buy gets no video game out on the day it comes out."
Just ask someone if it's in, usually they get them in days before and no one has put them out yet. And Halo 3 isn't just another game... It WILL be out on the shelves on launch day.

visionrider @ Jul 7th 2006 3:21AM

You never No maybe Halo 3 might get release in Nov 2006 to Help with PS 3 launch Sony would really enjoy that It would really help there start up on next gen ?.

Fielin @ Jul 7th 2006 3:27AM

Are you kidding me ?
Preordering a piece of software more thant a year in advance ?

I don't think so.

Apart from the fact that it is absolutely unnecessary as games don't need to be preordered, nobody knows right now if Halo3 will be a good game.

think about Devil May Cry, Tomb Raider, Quake... All good series, with at least one crappy episode.

What if Halo3 was the crappy one ? I am not buying it until I see good reviews.

Luttrell @ Jul 7th 2006 3:29AM

#5. "You never No maybe Halo 3 might get release in Nov 2006 to Help with PS 3 launch Sony would really enjoy that It would really help there start up on next gen ?."

lol, that's ridiculous. Why would you think that.

ben b @ Jul 7th 2006 4:02AM

that $69.99 price is in canadian dollars

DeadPlasmaCell @ Jul 7th 2006 5:10AM

Sorry #5, it ain't happening.. And besides, Sony is shooting themselves in the foot constantly, MS should just let them [Sony] keep doin what their doin.. And Come on now #6, These guys take their sweet time when it comes to Halo, and it pays off.. H3 will surely be something of greatness no doubt. And why pre-order when ther is Gamefly?

xbox360 @ Jul 7th 2006 5:28AM

umm...4 months wait list....might as well just pay extra and get on ebay.

dacksis @ Jul 7th 2006 7:23AM

The 69 dollar price is Canadian - the sites are Futureshop and bestbuy Canada. The 69 dollars is our usual price. (Special editions in Canada usually come in at 79 bucks.)

Dacksis

Sinnix @ Jul 7th 2006 8:41AM

$69.99 is the normal price for games up here in Canada. It's roughly $63 American. Considering those are both Canadian sites, I fail to see why you're so surprised.

GhostDoggy @ Jul 7th 2006 8:59AM

I remember when Halo 2 came out. I bought the collector's edition because the staore I was in didn't have the regular edition on the shelves. But, I returned it unopened because of the lack of cooperative play for Live.

Does anyone know if Halo 3 will feature coop Live play? Does Bungie know how to program Coop MP? Not knocking them, but rather trying to understand them better. :)

docLEXfisti @ Jul 7th 2006 9:32AM

what should surprise some of you is the fact, that Europeans pay EUR 69,90 for all games.

Stop whining already, really.

joe @ Jul 7th 2006 12:53PM

Pre-ordering is just stupid and I refuse to do it. Why do retailers burden customers with 2 trips to the store and 2 different transactions just so they can get their orders more accurate?

DeadPlasmaCell @ Jul 7th 2006 4:30PM

Pre-orders often work out most of the time when it comes to games.. Stores will only get shipped to them so many games, and by pre-ordering that store will let corporate know how many extra they're going to need. The rest depends upon corporate and how many they copies they can get to the store.. Most of the time it works. And stores need to have so many pre-orders and stuff like that so they'll look good. I worked at Gamestop for a while a few years back and that's how it was.