and the crowd goes wild

Final Fantasy 12 sells 1.7M copies in first 4 days and its theme song hits 6th on the singles chart.

Considering Japan has only 124M people vs. the combined 328M people in the US and Canada, I'd say this launch is more of a success than Halo 2, which sold 2.3M in opening days. However it's great to see that we here in the West are starting to see game opening sales frenzies now, which have been somewhat a regular occurance in Japan now for at least a decade.