Americas 360 hardware sales in Halo 3 launch week: How high will they get?

[Legend11]

Lost tears of Kain said:

Legend11 said:
I don't get why you think the 360 is going to sell far less than last year. It's lineup this year is arguably stronger (Halo 3 > Gears of War, then there's Mass Effect, etc) and it's had a price break.  For example if you think sales will stabilize at 75,000/week then it'll sell about 27% of what it did in December 06 (1.1 million).

I dont think hes including christmas, only the weeks after halo, leading up to holidays

He said 75,000 per week for the rest of the year in the Americas..  I assume he's including Christmas.

On another note when Halo 2 was released in November 2004 sales of the original Xbox increased by almost 500,000 over October (NPD has Oct 2004 sales at 217,000 and Nov 2004 at 708,000).  I realize a significant part of that would be because it's the month of November but Halo 2 likely had some affect on sales for sales to be over triple what they were the previous month.

I also don't get where the 100,000 number comes from, did Microsoft or a retail store do a survey from preorders to see what percentage of them were from people who did not already own a 360 console?

I also don't get this comment: "I think 360 sales are going to stabilize at around 75k/week for the rest of the year in the Americas on the price drops/content, meaning that Halo 3 will prevent sales from dipping down as low as they had been for months on end."...  The Christmas shopping season has always seen an increase in sales so why compare those months to the previous ones in the year?  Does anyone really think that November and December sales would be less or even the same as say July and August for example?