2.38 million
Number of Halo 2 X-Box video games sold in the United States and Canada in the first 24 hours it was on the market.
$125 million
Revenue earned from sales of Halo 2 within 24 hours of its release.
7,000 plus
Number of stores nationwide that held special midnight festivities for the launch of Halo 2.
“The more Maureen Loud [sic] gets on ‘Meet the Press’ and writes those columns, the redder these states get. I mean, they don’t want some high- brow hussy from New York City explaining to them that they’re idiots and telling them that they’re stupid.”
-Georgia Democratic senator Zell Miller on New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
