Not sure if this was posted but Microsoft confirmed that Reach opened with 200 Million in sales.  DAY 1! 
 
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68F0AC20100916

Avatar did more.  :| 
 
Joking aside, is that more or less than MW2?

" Avatar did more.  :|  Joking aside, is that more or less than MW2? "

Yeah, but will it stop the fast falling Games industry and the collapse of Western Civilisation.
 
And the answer is NO. So there.
 
Halo: Reach, a failure confirmed. Kind of like how they tried but failed in the story.

Less than MW2 I think, but the highest so far this year. 

So what does Halo Reach compare to in terms of first day sales...I'd assume Gears, a Nintendo game, and SC2 are similar? 
 
I need a comparison!  

THATS MILLION BUCKS

" @KaosAngel said:

" Avatar did more.  :|  Joking aside, is that more or less than MW2? "

A lot less. "

" @KaosAngel:  Avatar did not do nearly as much  Reach is the biggest game / movie 1 day launch ever.  EVER "

Someone make a table or find one on the net that compares this, it's hard to judge without a comparison.  >.>

That's ~ 3 million sales.  MW2 was initially reported as 7 million day one, but I don't know whether that turned out to be accurate or not.
 
What the guy in the article does say that's interesting- and what I believe he is entirely correct about - is that this shows that gamers haven't gone anywhere.  The market is down simply because there aren't enough good games around at the moment to satisfy the market.  That's good news in the sense that the industry doesn't need to panic over how far down sales are on last year, they just need to make more good games and the sales ought to recover.

1 day sales  

 

MW2 was on multiple platforms, Halo: Reach is only on the 360... That's pretty damn good.

Why does it matter if MW2 made more?

Most info readily available says MW2 sold 3.2 million in NA on 360 in the first week and 1.6 million on the PS3 in the first week. So if Reach sold 3 million in a day, I'd say it's a far assumption that it'll surpass MW2's 3.2 million one week sales on 360. MW2 has 11.5 million in total sales at this point, and if Reach performs as well as Halo 3 did, which can be assumed as Halo 3 had 2.8 million sold in NA in the first week, it will come close to matching MW2 in combined sales on 360/PS3 once everything is said and done.
 
If most of these stats are to be believed, Reach is doing very well for itself, especially considering the fact that it's a console exclusive. 

How about MW2's 360 day one?

Yay, money!  T_T  I'm more interested in UNITS that were shipped and/or sold rather than the money. 
 
The money side of this can be incredibly skewed, simply because there are three different editions of the game.  The same can be said for Modern Warfare 2. 
 
Therefore, give me the number of units shipped for both and I'll be more impressed if MW2 surpasses Halo: Reach, especially in week 1 sales.  Day 1 means nothing to me. 
 
Also, Halo: Reach is only available on one console, while MW2 was multi-platform.  Needless to say, $200 million worth of units is fucking impressive.

" THATS MILLION BUCKS "

Anyone know what ODST did?

Who cares who sold more. $200 million worth is still damn good. I did the math and it comes out to 3,333,333.33333333333333 copies sold. Maybe now Microsoft can get off of the pirates asses because they are still money off of their games. They should also get off of the used games industry ass because they sold a shit load of games on day one.

The Mafia II guys are pissed.

" Who cares who sold more. $200 million worth is still damn good. "

" THATS MILLION BUCKS "

775 million?

" Anyone know what ODST did? "