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basically, its saying Halo 2 has already 1.5 million preorders for just the U.S. only. ALot more worldwide releases. There was a 60Mins segment about how the gaming industry is alot bigger than the movie industry bring an average $40Billion a year easy.

Microsoft is promising to shutdown the work industry with everything taking sickdays on the 9th November to play Halo 2 for 24 hours straight.

I purely purchased my X-Box couple of moths ago for this release and yes, I've preordered. Who else is planning to take a "sickie"?