i gurantee i can walk into my walmart and buy the game the day after it comes outBrickz187
I'd be surprised but you never know - I guess it depends on where you live. When Halo 2 launched there was a line of 130 people standing there (Walmart)from about 6pm until Midnighto get their copy. I'm sure it will be the same for Halo 3.
I like videogames just as much as the next guy, but I'd never stand in line for one. I'm pretty sure I would be able to go out and get it on the first day as well.
I don't stand in line either - I just pre-order them. But if you don't pre-order a game like Halo 3 - don't expect to even see it anywhere for at least the first week. Not saying you won't - there are always exceptions, but I'd be surprised.
Even Gears of War had lines for 4 or 5 hours before it went on sale - not just at Walmart, but at every reseller in the area. Halo 3 will no doubt have a bigger following than Gears did initially - so good luck! :)
By saying I would be able to find it, I wasn't implying that I was actually going to buy it... for the record.
dwils
It's all good man - we're just having a bit of fun - and maybe you could. I mean I'm sure there will be some Walmarts or other stores in BFE, Kansas and the like that may have 1 or 2 surviving copies after the initial rush. :)
PS - I've been meaning to tell you - your RAMSTEIN pic RULES!!! :)
there is gonna be mass hysteria on launch night but there will not be a shortage, it's not like a console where they take time to manufacture. game specific stores might be all out, but target, walmart, etc. should have tons of copies
I doubt very much that supplies will run out, games disks can be produced very quickly and realitvely cheaply. It's the development of the game you pay the extra for.
It matters where you live, but i think in most places it will sell out. I mean it did sell out were i live and i'm not in that big of a town.
Oh and for people who says i still see cases that sell that have the made date in 2004 (yes i have seen people who say this). That can mean Microsoft manufactured more copies than were sold (or bought from stores). I think though now that stores may get more copies of Halo 3 than they did Halo 2 (which could mean less places are sold out).
I don't stand in line either - I just pre-order them. But if you don't pre-order a game like Halo 3 - don't expect to even see it anywhere for at least the first week. Not saying you won't - there are always exceptions, but I'd be surprised.
Even Gears of War had lines for 4 or 5 hours before it went on sale - not just at Walmart, but at every reseller in the area. Halo 3 will no doubt have a bigger following than Gears did initially - so good luck! :)
DataDream
I went out on the day halo 2 was released and managed to pick up a limited edition copy from the first shop I went into and all the others I went into hads it in stock as well, it was the same with gears of war I walked into the shop and picked up the limeted edition of that as well on its first day of releas, truth is games hardly ever sell out in fact I'm yet to here of a game selling out (when it's just the disc, and on modern consoles) these days mass production is so easy that they can make more than enough copies of a game to go around.
The game will sell out in its first day. You may get the game even if you haven't pre-ordered it, but you would be lucky. I don't think there will be a unit on its second day, in major stores that is.
[QUOTE="Brickz187"]i gurantee i can walk into my walmart and buy the game the day after it comes outDataDream
I'd be surprised but you never know - I guess it depends on where you live. When Halo 2 launched there was a line of 130 people standing there (Walmart)from about 6pm until Midnighto get their copy. I'm sure it will be the same for Halo 3.
I had my copy of Halo 2 preordered for probably close to a year and a half before it came out. Got the game the day it came out, walked into walmart on the trip home and saw shelves of them. SHELVES. Never preordered a game again.
i live in Darwin, Australia and the same day as the Xbox 360 was released in Australia, E/B had a stack of about 50 sitting in the middle of the shop...my point is that nothing is ever sold out here
Is this an American thing? Seriously, I can barely imagine that ANY game would actually be sold out in a region to the point where a person simply could not get a copy anywhere. Here, GTA and Pro Ev don't even sell out to that extreme, and if they don't, nothing will. Even if I felt there might be a problem between the 10 or so shops I could go to, I would just order Halo online.
I live in Canada, Ontario to be exact and Shadowrun sold out the second day, thats right SHADOWRUN, if that game can sell out then I firmly believe that Halo 3 will be gone in the first 5 hours of release.
I will just pick it up the day it comes out, I got San Andreas and Halo 2 ont he first day just casually walking into my store and getting, no money wasted on preorders
I live in Canada, Ontario to be exact and Shadowrun sold out the second day, thats right SHADOWRUN, if that game can sell out then I firmly believe that Halo 3 will be gone in the first 5 hours of release.Mikey289
Yeah, but Shadowrun is a much smaller game, and many less copies were produced.
It depends on where you live, but I can pretty much guarentee that if they are on the shelves, they probably won't be around for long the first couple of days. I'm also sure that Bungie gets the picture that this game is going to be big- Much bigger than even Halo 2 and thus I come to my final point that bungie is going to have made a crapload of copies for stores.
Hell no it wont sell out in stores. its not like a consoles at launch its easy to made copies of games so ms better put out all the copies they can sell. The only reason why i preorder my copy is so i can break down the cost. Ten bucks a month n im good.
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