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Opinions are like arseholes - everybody has one.

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There is no such thing as a bad decision, only good decisions based on flawed information.

So how long does everybody think Halo 2 will take to reach 1 million sales worldwide? Let's have a sweepstake: choose the time you think it will take and the closest guess wins a country of their choice!* I'm gonna guess Friday 12th of November. Once it hits UK shops sales will sky rocket.

*Note, prize will only be awarded once World Domination is complete and is pending Bungie's permission.

  • 07.15.2004 3:47 AM PDT

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I've got a reward. $0 with 100% interest per millisecond for a million years.

I my guess would be... 10 mins to get to 1 million. 20 to get to 5 million. 30 to get to 10 million and i give up from there. Hope the stats page 'll show it =].

  • 07.15.2004 3:51 AM PDT
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I think it will hit a million by November 10th

Hell they probably have 2 million pre-orderedalready

  • 07.15.2004 3:58 AM PDT
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i'd give it till November 14th.. 5 days!

  • 07.15.2004 4:00 AM PDT

It'd be interesting to see whether it does it before Half-Life 2.

  • 07.15.2004 4:01 AM PDT
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indeed, good point brought up there Goweb, but i personally dont really like the first Half-Life, so i hope it sells better!

  • 07.15.2004 4:06 AM PDT
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Well, halo 2 is at least as anticipated as Warcraft III was, if not more. And warcraft III sold over 1 million copies before it was even released

  • 07.15.2004 4:26 AM PDT
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Never liked Half Life either...I dunno, played it and such but it just didn't have anything which made it feel good. As for HL2 not seen anythin in it which is impressive at all, weapons some utterly unrealistic, the cars are dire, and watching the AI and watching how the scenery is destructable its all very much scripted, nothing really free at all. It has some nice elements but nothing which makes me want to consider buying it.

As for Halo, it'll be over 1mil by the weekend :) I would be guessing something like 2.4 to 3mil by the time Monday 15th comes around. I know many, including myself bought the XBox solely for one game, Halo. And are waiting for part 2. Cant wait :) *mutters about the 11th*

  • 07.15.2004 4:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: DaElAlTH2
Well, halo 2 is at least as anticipated as Warcraft III was, if not more. And warcraft III sold over 1 million copies before it was even released


True but we there is also a huge differance between the numbers of PC gamers to XBox gamers. So its not really like for like. Either way it will be interesting to see :)

  • 07.15.2004 4:31 AM PDT
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itl either hit a mill on the first day or 2 days later(when UK sales open). one of those two...

  • 07.15.2004 4:32 AM PDT
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i think it might already have reached 1,000,000 copies sold because of presales i have already pre bought 2 coppies le and normal, and i know im not even close to being the only one....

  • 07.15.2004 5:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: mc slayer12
i think it might already have reached 1,000,000 copies sold because of presales i have already pre bought 2 coppies le and normal, and i know im not even close to being the only one....

2 million pre ordered

  • 07.15.2004 6:28 AM PDT

True but we there is also a huge differance between the numbers of PC gamers to XBox gamers. So its not really like for like. Either way it will be interesting to see :)
But console gamers tend to be more selective - console games cost a hell of a lot more than PC games!

  • 07.15.2004 7:10 AM PDT

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And yeah, Opey could probably win that game without using his BR. Best SMG user in Halo.


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the very second the store opens. nuff said.

  • 07.15.2004 7:13 AM PDT

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And yeah, Opey could probably win that game without using his BR. Best SMG user in Halo.


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Jeez, Gamestop is already back-ordered. Or at least it was a few months ago....

  • 07.15.2004 7:15 AM PDT
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i was just reading an old OXM mag and they had a thing that said when halo finally hit 4 million. that was last year. i heard somewhere(some little special magazine at gamestop they were doing i think not sure.) that halo 2 has sold 1.2 million copies from pre-orders alone. and that was in like february. hang on i forgot how much u were asking.

i think it has already reached 1 million copies just in the states.

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  • 07.15.2004 7:16 AM PDT
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Within the second day, it will sell 999,999 copies on the 9th, and I'll pick up my reserve on the 10th

  • 07.15.2004 7:38 AM PDT
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It has about 2 million pre-orders right now, and the people who pre-ordered it are fanatics about it, so they will be lining up outside the game stores and will get their copies as soon as it opens, so thats like 2 million right there in the states and in Canada alone, not to mention the pre-orders in the UK (Which I'm guessing is around a million) so thats 3 million within 3-4 days on pre-orders alone! Plus everyone that wants it but didnt pre-order it will be getting it so thats a bunch more there. I'd say it will get to about 5 million in about a week.
Not to mention how X-box sales will skyrocket when Halo 2 comes out, and there will be more sales than Halo 1 because X-boxes are like 1/3 the cost of what they were when Halo came out.

I cant wait to see the commercials, wow those will be sweet.

  • 07.15.2004 8:19 AM PDT