User blog comment:Damac1214/Sales of Black Ops II are a "Cause of Concern" for Activision/@comment-67.101.223.25-20121202230002/@comment-67.101.223.254-20121204212359

OP again

What I'm saying is that if they actually sold $100 million MORE worth of copies this year on opening day, those copies might be the ones that people would have otherwise bought afterwards in the following weeks, because of all the hype and preoder bonuses Activision put in place.

They haven't actually just given a real number, only said that the past few weeks' sales have been down from last year, and what I'm saying is that the sales they lost might just have been from those people buying preorders instead.