Did Halo 2 spike hardware sales of the original Xbox?

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HappySqurriel said:

kn said:
So it is fairly safe to assume or estimate 150-200K sales in the month of November *primarily* from the Halo 2 launch. My question then is what does that tell us about Halo 3? Do we think it will do the same, more, less? And second, for the upcoming crow eating contest, what will be considered as "having moved consoles?" Obviously if sales are only up 25-50K units for the month of October, it would be hard to argue that it isn't just people jumping in because of known new hardware and/or the price cut and/or some combination thereof. I'd say a 100K bump would qualify as having "moved" units....

Personally, I would expect a smaller boost from Halo 3 ... Halo 2 was released for a system which was less than half the price of the XBox 360, at a time when people need to buy something for their 16 year old son for christmas. Over the next (several) months you may see somewhat higher numbers for the XBox 360 because of Halo 3 but I don't expect much of a Week 1 boost in sales.

 But now that the serious is well established here in America. You will see a quite of a difference between what you saw with Halo 2 with the Xbox and what you will see with Halo 3 for the Xbox 360.