The San Diego Union Tribune reported that thousands of people lined up across the country to purchase Halo 2, the long-awaited new Xbox game from Microsoft’s Bungie Studios. Over 6,000 stores from coast-to-coast opened at midnight to sell Halo 2 to adoring fans.
CNN Money reported that Gary Cooper, an analyst from BancAmerica Securities, expects upwards for 3.5 million copies of Halo 2 to be sold by December 31. That sounds low to me. If the first day sales were $100 million, as expected, that translates to about 1.9 million copies sold yesterday. I think that Microsoft has to be able to at least double their first day Halo 2 sales by the end of the year.