SmashBros could it take the record from Halo3?

[Adam540]

Okay,

It will be many years before a game sells more copies in one week than Halo 3 did. When it does happen I say there is a 75% chance that it is a Halo related game. While I definitely agree that Super Smash Bros. Brawl will outsell Halo 3, I do not believe that it's first week numbers will be anywhere near. My guess is SSBB will sell 1 million copies worldwide in it's first week. It will have excellent legs though, like all Smash Bros games.

However I will say this. The only reason Brawl won't sell more than Halo in it's first week is because they don't want to. Well it's not that they don't want to, they just don't want to bother spending the money to hype it up. I personally believe that without all the hype Halo 3 probably would have sold just as many copies in its life as it will now. It's just that because of the hype they were front loaded. I think Nintendo knows this and knows that regardless of hype Brawl will still sell the same amount of copies, so why put the extra effort or cash in.