DOAX2 released last year and had ~70k sales, so a Platinum edition should wind up doing decently (10k+)
None of the games, save Lost Odyssey, will beat Blue Dragon. Nevertheless, I feel the top 5 games of the year will easily beat every top-5 game of last year for the X360.
IMO, the sales charts at EOY should look like.....
Lost Odyssey - 225,000
Ace Combat 6 - 165,000
Dynasty Warriors 5 - 115,000
Halo 3 - 105,000
Oblivion - 102,500
Blue Dragon - 90,000 (from Jan 1st till Dec 31 of this year, +25k for BP edition)
Gears of War - 77,500 (w/ BP)
Trusty Bell - 74,000 (if no BP releases this year)
Beautiful Katriami - 60,000
Gundam Mousou International - 50,000
Bladestorm - 45,000
Guilty Gear 2 - 42,500
Operation: Darkness + Apocalypse: Overture - 35,000 each
The Best Price/Platinums for DOA4, DOAX2, and such should wind up with around 10-15k each, with DOA4 getting the biggest boost IMO.
At any rate, last year, the X360 only had 2 games hit 100k - Blue Dragon and DOA4. This year, it seems probable we'll have 5 games hit 100k....A far better number than last year. Not only this, only 6 games hit 50k last year (DOA, BD, DOAX2, N3, DR, LP), whereas we will have 11 or so(LO, AC6, H3, BK, BD again, TB, Oblivion, GMI, DW5, GoW, IdolM@ster) for this year.
So that, to me, is a good increase.
The X360 hitting 1m at the EOY is near impossible. The best, under any circumstance, would be it hitting around 450k at the end of the year. I called 375k for the year in Japan, as of January, which I am still confident in.
I'd fully expect AC6, LO and DW5 to move major (10k each week) hardware for the week's they're out. LO should manage 35k+ for it's opening week, and I think there's a good chance AC6 could move 20k first week as well.
The other 50k+ games should move a considerable (5k+) bit of hardware over their lifespans, so that looks good too.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
