So, where are all the people who claiming that valve lied about the preorders for L4D2 being better than any other valve title? I'm not going to hold my breath for an apology, although maybe I should dig up those threads and start naming names.
Obviously it was true, L4D2 sold 2 million RETAIL (not counting steam) in 2 weeks. If you look at the numbers for L4D1, it took over 5 months to get to that (2.5 million in 5 or 6 months).
Compare that to HL2 (which was the other title people were claiming had more preorders), it took 2 months to even approach 2 million (1.7 million to be exact).