sharky said: You're predicting a massive jump for Halo 3 and quite frankly, it's never happened in the past with Halo 1 or Halo 2...
Games dont stimulate sales directly, from what I've ever seen. Price drops however, do. |
Check the numbers I posted earlier! In 2002, 2003, and 2006, XBox or 360 sold roughly 500K units in November. In 2004, the month Halo 2 launched, they sold 700K. By December, the impact had worn off, as 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006 all had similar Decembers.
Certain games absolutely cause major one-time jumps. And Halo will cause the largest we'll see outside of Japan, because of how front-loaded it is. There are similarly popular franchises in America, but none as front-loaded.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
