It would seem that Microsoft and Bungie have a second smash hit on their hands, news.com is reporting that 2.38 million copies were sold on the first day of release in the US and Canada.This is probably at least as successful as most major blockbuster movies during their first few days.

Microsoft beat even its own heady expectations for the hotly anticipated Xbox game "Halo 2," selling more than $125 million of the product its first day in stores.

The software giant on Wednesday reported sales of 2.38 million units for the game in the 24 hours since it went on sale in the United States and Canada at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.

Today is release date in the UK, so you can probably add few hundred thousand more copies to that total.