Microsoft banks $100 Million for Halo 2 game

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VOLISH VIDEO game Halo 2 hit the shops yesterday and netted more than $100 million on its first day out. In what punters are calling the largest launch in gaming history, Halo 2 has done better than most movie blockbusters on their first day. Odd really, because the plot of the game is fairly familar. Boy meets heavy assault weapon, boy must save the earth from aliens, boy never gets a girl in his life.

The boy in this case is called 'Master Chief' which probably means he will have to serve up the aliens in a white wine sauce in sixty seconds to the approval of Lloyd Grossman. A Volish spokesChief said that more than 1.5 million units were pre-sold and one retailer sold 8,500 units in the first 11 minutes, while another sold 200,000 units by yesterday morning. Analysts expect Microsoft to flog more than 10 million units of Halo 2 mostly around November. The original Halo sold five million units and remains the best seller on the Xbox.

Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/

[Hellfighter]

now thats is something i may get it never play halo 1 or 2 before but fighting monster is what i was looking for. got tire of the normal fighting types df: serials and JOTR.

[BADDOG]

I bet Bill Gates is rubbing his hands with glee over this news!

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thats alot of money lol....

[Reticle]

Amazing. Why didn't Half Life 2 get that kind of release, though? It easily pwns Halo 2 in basically everything. Of course, I'm sure stretching the release date over and over didn't help...

[KU43]

you think bill would give me a couple of million?

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Originally posted by Reticle
Amazing. Why didn't Half Life 2 get that kind of release, though? It easily pwns Halo 2 in basically everything. Of course, I'm sure stretching the release date over and over didn't help...

Because you can't get Half Life 2 to run on a $100 machine and Half Life 2 has an older certificate.
PC games are a niche market. Consoles are where the money is.

[Cody 7]

Yeah i agree wuth you ^^... but ive always liked PC games because you can do so much more with them.

I never like Half Life or Counter Strike because they feel so cheesey and un-realistic

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Originally posted by Cody 7
Yeah i agree wuth you ^^... but ive always liked PC games because you can do so much more with them.

I never like Half Life or Counter Strike because they feel so cheesey and un-realistic

Thats why all of these games make so much money because they are not realistic. UT2k4 is far from realistic and its ery popular. Don't take this into offence but it seems that more of the older adults that game like the war, ww1, ww2 games but the younger gamers are into fake sci-fi games. But the younger people are the ones spending the money on these games and there parents are buying then it.