Did 360 beat Wii in September sales for NA......

[erikers]

shams said:

erikers said:

Legend11 said:

NPD's numbers for September will have 5 weeks counted.

Also find it odd that Halo 3 didn't drive that many sales in North America for the week when it doubled sales in the UK* which has a fairly similar market for the 360.

*source: Chart Track via http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=29184

Dude I've been saying that every time I could. UK userbase is 1/5th of the userbase in America. Halo 3 sold 460k compared to around 2.6 in America. That's almost exactly 1/5th. Then the hardware doubles in UK but here, where it's 80x more popular, it only increases 19%? Blasphemy!!

Its worth noting that 4 (5?) weeks ago, the 360 sales in the US were 66k. So they have basically doubled.

The US has seen a more gradual ramp up of 360 sales - due to Madden, Bioshock, Stranglehold, price cut, etc.

The effect of those on 360 sales in Europe hasn't been as strong.

 

 Very true, however, you're forgeting the 360 used to average around 25k weekly in all europe and when the pricedrop hit it shot up around 43k and had maintained at 37k until halo 3 hit then it doubled from 37 to 74k this week.  In other words price cut = 25 to 40k, and a similar/identical boost in the same way in America.  

Anyhow, I'm predicting 520k for 360 in the 5 weeks   Was your prediction 500k even Shams?