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Bucky · 09-26-2007, 10:47 PM

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Originally posted by Gazz@Sep 16 2007, 11:02 AM
It appears a copy of the game also already landed in the warezscene and is about to be released within a few hours, read that in one of the comments on that link you gave. EDIT: they deleted that comment already. The fact that it already leaked onto these sites is going to make a huge dent into MS's expected game sales for what is going to be the biggest title this year and a way for ms to get some money back on the huge loss it made on it's console.

This mess up has got to be the biggest in the history of the 360 and even lets their huge failure rate look like a minor inconvenience. Tons of people who really want to play the hyped game will now flash their console and download this game from some torrentsite and will most likely download more games in the future instead of buying them which will set MS back ages. Who the hell came up with the brilliant idea to ship units of the game 2 weeks before rleease anyway, stupid stupid stupid and I love it.

Gna gna, I just love Norway

What a shocking development, Gazz is wrong, as usual.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/26/halo-3-n...breaks-records/

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Microsoft has just sent word that its flagship soldier Master Chief has come back from the battlefield with $170 million dollars in the first 24 hours of Halo 3 deployment in the United States. As noted, this would mark the biggest day in US entertainment history, beating out Spider-Man 3 and all Harry Potters (of course, the price of entry for those events were a lot less, but that's a technicality when it comes to record books).

According to the press release, September 25 was also Xbox Live's most active day so far, thanks in no small part to one million online Halo 3 players. Bundled with every copy of Halo 3 was a free 48 hour trial, so we're interested in seeing how many people tomorrow decide to pay the Gold fee and keep on fragging.