| erikers said: We know sales trends tend to follow each other. The UK is the best selling place for 360 outside of the US where it has a 1.4 million user base compared to 7.4 in US. In other words it has 19% of the userbase of the US. Now look at the software sales for halo 3, 2.6 in US and 460k in the UK. In proportion, the uk sold 17.7% of what the US did in software. That's almost perfectly in line with userbases. Now, sales doubled for Hardware in the Uk, how could they not be very similar in the US realistically? Even you said you expected it to be 200k from preliminary numbers. |
Yes. I love this site and ioi is certainly doing a great job and so on, but I'm pretty sure he undertracked the X360 sales during Halo 3 week. I don't know what went wrong - if it was something with the sources or some mathematical extrapolation error - but there's no way the X360 only sold 125k last week in NA (compared to the "normal" 75,000/week we've seen since going into the fall season). I believe 170-200,000 X360's were sold in NA, and nearly 100,000 in the EU/others.
