- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
From a purely marketing standpoint it seems highly unlikely the release date is August 24. Is the release of Xbox's biggest game to date and likely the year's best game really going to get absolutely zero advertisement on TV? Is one trailer at one company's movie theaters supposed to somehow announce to everyone interested in Halo 2 that the game will be released on August 24, given:
1) the fact that only a very small percentage of the audience MSFT is trying to reach actually got to see the trailer in the theater (later rectified by Internet) and
2) the fact that the trailer itself said November 9?
What's the point of spending money on inaccurate advertisement? I'll be the first one to eat my words if it's Aug 24, but frankly there's no market-conscious way that Halo 2 is coming out on Aug 24. Besides, only a small niche of the people that actually saw the trailer even recognized and remembered the ilovebees link, and an even smaller amount went to the site. Further, a much smaller group placed any significance whatsoever in a date on the website, and a still further miniscule group related it somehow to Halo 2; finally, an infinitesimally smaller number (the few clowns that keep posting about it) put any thought into it at all between handfuls of Cheetos and sips of that 3rd soda in the last hour and a half. Whoever thought unanswerable posts like "what's your favorite part about Halo 2?" would be so welcome now?