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Originally posted by Bucky@Sep 26 2007, 10:47 PM
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.
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No, I am not. This game is hardly making a dime in profit. The media offensive (or Blitz as you called it, you really can't turn on your tv or radio here without seeing those cheap rubber dolls) is 100 million worldwide alone, you might say that 170 million beats that but that's not net profit. Only 10% of any game in general is profit, that makes 17 million. I am not sure about the taxrates in the us but they surely take a few million away from that. All in all Halo isn't profitable by a long shot and MS even lost another big exclusive game this week which has been overlooked by many because of the halo hype. Project Gotham racing 4 will be the last exclusive for them.
Once again your numbers don't add up Bucky, please don't bother wasting your time trying to discredit me with poor info again. MS fanboy
