Just to state this again you MUST at least provide a # with + or - to be added. *cough* Soriku *cough*. Please get it in by the deadline to be fair to everyone.

Still Need clarification from: Marc, DMeisterJ, Shinra, Soriku, Sulla, HappySquirrel, Misterd, and Dallas

 

Edit: PS - I will be adding all these new names and modifications to the list after the deadline.  Don't fret if I haven't added you yet.  Also if you are already on the list double check your number to make sure its correct because thats the # that will be used. This due to the inability to tell if people have edited their posts, so I have to go with what I have written in my table to keep it fair. I try to double/triple check to make sure I have what you have posted correctly but I am human so please make sure.   

WILL: 1,000,000k

Not a good guess but I was calling this horoscope hotline anyway so I asked there, they sayed a million so I´m sticking with that, I´ll wager a shiny new mule.

Will +20k, Don't expect it to stay up that high, but due to the build up of 360s in stores, I could see a lot of consoles moved for microsoft.

Will +40k

Wii will outsell 360, 62,000

It will... but not by much.. +100k to the sales. I think most Halo fans own a 360 right now because they bought Gears or BioShock.

El Duderino said: WILL: 1,000,000k Not a good guess but I was calling this horoscope hotline anyway so I asked there, they sayed a million so I´m sticking with that, I´ll wager a shiny new mule.

 1,000,000k? that would be 1 billion consoles... lol

Believe it or not.

WON'T

I'll pull a number out me h'ass 'ere...Under Wii within 50,000 (that's – 50,000)

Close but no cigar.

John Lucas

What is interesting is the margin between the two systems. Based on last weeks sales the Xbox 360 managed around 115,000 sales world wide last week. The Wii managed around 245,000. Sorry no calculator handy so my math may be a bit rough. That means the 360 is selling around forty percent of the total Wii sales. Thats not a great statistic for the 360 however it is a far better situation then when this thread was made.

Since that time the 360 has increased its sales by roughly 35,000 units world wide. Which is almost a fifty percent increase. Mostly off of a fifty dollar price cut. While strangely the Wii has stayed consistent. Effectively the 360 has decreased the gap between the two consoles. The sales have improved while the Wii sales have remained the same. Just comparing the two relevant weeks. The last week of July and the first week of September.

Anyway with that kind of change over time I am curious if anyone has developed doubts about their marginal predictions. A price cut generated a nearly fifty percent boost in hardware sales. So perhaps the demand is not as soft as they believed. The only logic so far I have found severely flawed is the thought that all the Halophiles have bought the machine. To which I ask the question why if they are Halophiles they had no need to replace their old machine. Which is true I have ran into a few of these characters. All of which are desperately trying to scrounge up money to buy a 360. They know in two weeks the party will be over. They have had no stress to force them to adopt up until this point. This is not the Wii after all they know it will be on the shelf when they are ready.

The same logic is routinely applied to PS2 owners they will switch when the PS3 drops in price, but why is the same logic not being applied to the halo junkies. Why should they have blown their money in early adoption for a franchise. When a price drop was far more likely, and they could hold onto their money longer. The logic seems very flawed. Why does it apply for one and yet not the other?

Anyway I think the higher predictions are looking better right now, and lower predictions are looking quite unlikely as in impossible. For instance the top four predictions are beaten on a weekly basis without Halo 3 present, and Nintendo has not manifested that kind of shipping capacity. Granted one is just idiotic, but the other three seemed somewhat realistic at the time, but are no longer so.

Just some food for thought.

It will. I don't buy the "people who wanted halo already have a 360" since you could say anyone who wanted "mgs4 or ff13" already have a ps3 or even with the Wii those that want "SSB or MG" already have a Wii. I think is a very stupid logic as BIG releases should always boost sales even it is a little bit. I know amazon is not the greatest indicator of sales but when I see gears of war in the top 20 I say new people are buying 360's and picking up gears and other good games etc. I mean it was almost 300k in august it should easy pass 300k with Halo 3 among the many games coming out in September from skate to stranglehold and many others it is a loaded month for games for the 360. I believe games lead to sales and the 360 seems like it will have plenty from this month and on. in terms of numbers I go 400k+ so 25k+ on the Wii.