Halo 3 shortage?

[fisheerman]

For those that haven't preorder or aren't going to be standing in line at midnight.

Do you think this game will be in short supply?

I have never seen a game sell out. Other than Bioshock.

It seems that you will be able to buy it everywhere (7-11 etc)

Just wondering if anyone has heard of shipment numbers?

-fish

 

[secretanchitman]

doubt there will be a shortage. wal-mart, best buy, compusa, frys, and even radioshack will have copies. no need to worry about it...

 

[Hammerhead]

if 7-11 is selling them, there won't be a shortage

 

[Nikamichi]

Even my school bookstore is taking pre-orders. Don't sweat it.

 

[jdoggg12]

With amount of demand for game, i wouldn't be surprised if McDonalds or ROSS started selling it

 

[foghorn67]

The kid's lemonade stand on Maple St will have copies.

 

[piasabird]

Who cares! After a few months they wont be able to give the game away.

 

[PingSpike]

I don't how there could ever be anything more then a temporary shortgage of a video game. Unless the world starts running out of plastic to make DVDs and paper to print manuals.

 

[randay]

you can get a free copy with any pontiac truck or van, no worries!

 

[Anubis]

halo 2 had a HUGE opening day, i stood in line to pick up my copy with about 1000 other people, everyon got theirs, im sure there will be enough for Halo 3

 

[Anubis]

Opening Cinamatic from Halo 3 - NOT A SPOILER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvHIsSNQRMk

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: piasabird
Who cares! After a few months they wont be able to give the game away.

OP - I don't think you'll be unable to find it. I didn't have any trouble finding Bioshock a few days after release - Circuit City still had it in stock even though they had it on sale. It's software, it's easy to mass produce.

With the way they've been marketing this thing, it makes me wonder if they're going to pull an Atari and make more copies of the game than there are Xbox 360s in the world.

 

[Q]

Halo 2 didn't even have a shortage. I went the day it came out after school and EB had boxes full of it under the counter.

 

[JackBurton]

I already got a copy waiting for me at GS. $75.

 

[intogamer]

People just pre-order to do the midnight madness for fun.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Nikamichi
Even my school bookstore is taking pre-orders. Don't sweat it.

that's sad

 

[legoman666]

I used to work at gamestop. Even for the big games (madden, halo), we NEVER ran out of copies to sell. And even if we did run out of "sellable" copies, we just sold customers people's preorders that hadn't been picked up yet (in the hope that we got more in before they game to collect.) There really is no reason to preorder.

 

[mzkhadir]

they had a month to produce enough copies.

 

[dotcom173]

i preordered halo two and picked it up at midnight. a budddy of mine went to costco a day later and picked it up for 8 bucks cheaper....i officially stopped preordering from that day on.


(no im not preordering halo 3 and im sure ill get it just fine the next day. its not like theyre hard to manufacture, like consoles might be)

 

[JackBurton]

I just pre-ordered because I got the Limited Edition (I like the case ). I knew they'd have plenty of regular copies, but I wanted to make sure I got a LE. But quite honestly, I didn't have anything to do so I just pre-ordered (paid in full) so I could just walk in and say, "give me my copy." Done. If I didn't pre-order and only got the regular H3, I'd be fine. No big deal.

 

[yllus]

I pre-ordered only to save $20 off the cost.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
I just pre-ordered because I got the Limited Edition (I like the case ). I knew they'd have plenty of regular copies, but I wanted to make sure I got a LE. But quite honestly, I didn't have anything to do so I just pre-ordered (paid in full) so I could just walk in and say, "give me my copy." Done. If I didn't pre-order and only got the regular H3, I'd be fine. No big deal.

thats why i preordered mine, however i let them ship it to me

 

[jdoggg12]

Originally posted by: Anubis
Opening Cinamatic from Halo 3 - NOT A SPOILER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvHIsSNQRMk

i think i just jizmed

 

[indamixx99]

Hmm... makes me wonder if XBL's servers are gonna crash on opening day from the surge in traffic.

 

[Muadib]

I'll never understand the pre-order thing. Unless it's to save some cash like yllus did, why bother?