Tyler, your going to get 1m various opinions on what would of constituted a dissapointment for H3's first week sales.
On one hand, Halo 3 didn't have the advantage of a 10m+ Xbox userbase when it came out. It's total US sales are under 70% of that. Therefore, one could assume it'd garner 70% of the sales, or so, of Halo 2 in it's first week.
On the other hand, supposedly everyone bought the X360 for H3 already, and no one will buy a X360 for Halo, so it should get most of it's sales within the first 2 weeks, and should do 3m+.
I'm on the idea that Halo 3 would of been disappointing if it did under 1.3m first week. I think Halo 3 will have good legs, considering the opening, and have a better multiplier vs. Halo2, merely because the X360 has had H3 launch earlier in it's lifespan, and is selling quite a bit better, YOY versus the Xbox.
So if Halo 3 sells over 2.5m - Halo 2's first week numbers - I will be very, very happy. Simply because I think from now until Christmas, it'll do gangbuster numbers every week, and not dip below 100k at any week until Christmas is over. If that happens - think about it, we still have around 14 or 15 weeks until Christmas is over. Half of those weeks could be above 200k. That's alot of freaking units of Halo.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
