Feels like a Lost -style time skip back to 2008
First comes the little gap, then the moderate boost due to a fan favourite IP and maybe a small shipment of backwards compatible systems.
Then at the beginning of August comes the 360 is doomed speak for about a month, then comes "$50 drop won't do anything" then "everybody who wants Halo Reach already owns a 360" then the fun begins.
What a boring cycle, next-gen needs to start to break the predictablity of it.