Halo 3 pre-orders top 4 million?
by Richard Mitchell 
{ May 10th 2007 at 1:30PM }
According to Xbox Evolved, GameStop officials have confirmed that pre-orders for Halo 3 have already passed the 4 million mark. If true, this would make Halo 3 the most pre-ordered game of all time (unless GTAIV catches up). Assuming most of those pre-orders are actually purchased, it also puts Halo 3 in the running for first day sales records (which isn't exactly surprising). Keep in mind, these numbers are only for GameStop and its affiliated stores. Throw in other retailers and the number of pre-orders must be staggering.Our big question: how many of those pre-orders are for the Legendary Edition?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Michael Paul @ May 10th 2007 1:41PM
My Legendary is coming from Amazon. Due in early June per their ship estimate. Kinda wish that was true...
jason @ May 10th 2007 1:41PM
I wonder what the madness will be at midnight on launch day. Also I knew this would already happen and there is still months to go for even more people to preorder it. I already got mine preorder 3 weeks ago.
John @ May 10th 2007 1:46PM
I got my legendary pre-ordered. I put $25 down on it at gamestop at the same time I pre-ordered crackdown in January... I'll be there at the midnight release... so yeah, I'm a Halo fanboy...
erivera3 @ May 10th 2007 1:52PM
Hell yeah, this game will own all and easily make history in the entertainment world for most sold in one day and most likely end up being the most sold in history.
Pedro Monscooch @ May 10th 2007 2:02PM
... until halo 4
Toph @ May 10th 2007 2:06PM
I'm not insanely big into Halo, but when I worked at Gamestop over the holiday season I reserved the Legendary Edition. Why do that if I'm not a Halo fanboy?
1. I'm a 360 fanboy:)
2. This is part of gaming history in the making! I can't halfass it!
3. That helmet replica is a trophy of any self-respecting ubergamer geek!
ANt @ May 10th 2007 2:08PM
HALO = way over-rated
Toph @ May 10th 2007 2:09PM
..Oh, and let me add that standing in line for Halo 2 at Gamestop in the cold rain with gamers I didn't know, employees offering hot chocolate and talking about geeky crap with each other as we stood shivering was all part of the fun.. I can't wait to relive that soon!
Knight Marquise @ May 10th 2007 2:13PM
I've pre-ordered and paid for:
1-Halo 3: Lengendary Edition (for myself)
1-Halo 3: Collectors Edition (for the wife)
2-Halo 3: Standard Editions (for the kids)
Last Gen, I still had 3 other kids at home, so I had preordered 7 copies of Halo 2, and yes, me and my oldest son were their at EB prior to midnight, and got home at 3:00AM with our Halo Goodness.
spartan029 @ May 10th 2007 2:16PM
#1 amazon doesn't have legendary edition for pre-ordering? can you gimme the link if you can find it?
Knight Marquise @ May 10th 2007 2:14PM
EDIT:
Egads my vocabulary is slipping. Should be "there" not "their".
me @ May 10th 2007 2:29PM
Pre ordered mine in nov 06 for legendary. Cant Wait
Kiggle @ May 10th 2007 2:32PM
ok this is bullshit lets run through some numbers.
I worked at gamestop store 1577 when it JUST opened, it opened in 2003. assuming they number stores logically/chronologically, there were 1,577 gamestops at that time. with the aquisition/merger of EB, lets assume the number has AT LEAST doubled since then, giving us 3,154 stores. we'll double that number AGAIN, realistically giving us WAY WAY more theoretical stores than there are actual gamestops and EB's in north america.
so, with 6,308 theoretical stores taking reservations in that statistic, EACH STORE would have to have an average of _634_(!!!!) Halo 3 reservations. no. fucking. way. We got over 200 reservations for Halo 2, and thats with the MUCH larger installed base of the Xbox 1, AND it was the most reserved title in the companies history. I have no doubts that the reserves for Halo 3 will be insane, but not even CLOSE to 600 per store. and again, thats assuming a RIDICULOUS number of stores!
If we were to use the 3,154 number, which I would imagine is MUCH more realistic, each store would have to have closer to _1268_ reserves! EACH FUCKING STORE.
so yeah, this is COMPLETE bullshit lol
Fred @ May 10th 2007 2:42PM
^^
Ruiner of fun. You're not invited to my party.
Destroyer88 @ May 10th 2007 3:19PM
4 million? damn and i still have yet to preorder my copy lol. i figured, you know, that like a day or two after the release i could just go pick up a copy, but 4 million. I guess I will have to go pre order now. :(
LG Evil Pabsi @ May 10th 2007 2:52PM
All I care about now is when the game is coming out, did anyone doubt that h3 would break records?
Gronar @ May 10th 2007 2:54PM
Kiggle, ever heard of pre ordering from Gamestop.com?
hawk @ May 10th 2007 3:02PM
Halo 3 has consistently been on the top sellers list on ebgames.com ever since it was announced.
Kurifurisan @ May 10th 2007 3:18PM
Kiggle...you need a tickle in your giggle box...lol, chill brah!
Michael Paul @ May 10th 2007 3:33PM
spartan029:
Apparently it was a limited preorder if they don't offer it anymore. Maybe they were guaranteed 1,000 and wisely cut it off there...
Doc @ May 10th 2007 3:38PM
@ #3.
Yeah. i did that too but i did mine on the day i bought Gears of War. I hope they wont be limtited with the number of copies. i heard they had 500-1,000+ copies of Halo 2 at launch so hopfully that will happen for Halo 3.
azesino @ May 10th 2007 4:14PM
Kiggle
most people order online this days you know
Kiggle @ May 10th 2007 5:12PM
haha sorry for my combative sounding nature, I just copied that from a post I made on a message board earlier today, but it was kind of mid-argument, so my tone was a bit much. Sorry guys! You know who loves ya. Oh btw Halo.bungie.net quoted me based on that!! I'm famous! ;)
Justin U @ May 10th 2007 5:22PM
Got mine pre-ordered in November for my birthday.
Hurray.
Eddy @ May 10th 2007 5:22PM
This will be my first "HUGE" pre-order and was wonderin, if i camp out the night before, will i be able to get a copy, assuming there are real hardcore people that have been camping 2-3 days before me? And does anyone know, how many copies of Halo 2 game stores received at launch date?
Grindstone @ May 10th 2007 6:18PM
I pre-ordered Halo 3 last month at the local EBgames. When I asked what number I was (in registration order), I was #423. I asked if I was going to get Halo 3 on launch day, and they assured me that they would get over 1,000 copies in. Standard edition, FTW!
If you consider EBgames, Gamestop and ordering it online, I think 4 million is a plausible number that isn't too hard to validate. Even still, we're talking about one gaming franchise, and if they are maintaining 4 million, even if it is slightly inflated, that still doesn't account for many other retail stores or online only places (such as Amazon).
Records will be broken.
mike @ May 10th 2007 8:32PM
future shop has halo 3 legendary for pre-order still.
Personally Im jsut getting the regular edition. Who cares about anything but the game. Is there a lite edition I can get with a disc in a paper sleve?
Im not gonna pre-order either, I assume theres going to be enough copies to go around. When wow launched, there were 300 copies per store in my area in a cluster of like 20 stores. They did not even come close to selling out. Just like with halo 2, im gonna go to eb midnight launch to buy the game without a pre-order.
Mitochondria @ May 12th 2007 1:10AM
WOW is not like H3 an any way, so If i where you I would pre-order. That is if you want it within the week that it comes out.
mattclarkie @ May 11th 2007 12:02PM
Well chalk up one for the UK. I ordered my Legendary from HMV. I chose HMV because they are usually really good at getting hard to find games .ect. Hope I am right this time. I considered several pre-orders for security, but only greedy ***** do that. I am not greedy.
Tyrant T104 @ Jun 18th 2007 4:23AM
I manage an EB Games, my store has 437 reserves as of today between the three versions. We have the most in the district that i know of, but we're in the midwest and most of the other stores in my district are pushing madden and GTA over halo. It's very possible for stores in higher traffic areas like new york, L.A., chicago, etc to have 600+ per store. This is gonna be insane!