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Halo 3 Racks Up $170 Million In First-Day Sales
Wall Street Journal ^ | 9/26/07 | By NICK WINGFIELD

Posted on 09/26/2007 5:54:24 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

Edited on 09/26/2007 6:18:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Microsoft Corp. said its hotly-anticipated new videogame, Halo 3, generated an estimated $170 million in U.S. sales in its first day of release, a record for the games industry and a big boost for Microsoft's Xbox 360 business.

The sales for Halo 3 exceeded first-day U.S. sales of $125 million for Halo 2, which came out three years ago for Microsoft's original ...


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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: halo; halo3; videogames

1 posted on 09/26/2007 5:54:30 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

What a waste of money!


2 posted on 09/26/2007 6:31:08 PM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: raybbr

The waste of money pales in comparison to the waste of time. Two of my friends have already beaten it.

1.2 million people have already played it online, and crashed the x box live server.

Just wait for the stories to come out about people who won’t leave their houses for a couple of weeks while playing this game.


3 posted on 09/26/2007 6:42:38 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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