About the sales of SMG, one thing to remember

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MontanaHatchet said:
The race with Halo 3 IS OVER.

Don't even get me started..

New Super Mario Bros

 Launch sales
1) 910,297
2) 336,052
3) 252,464
 Launch sales
1) 174,279
2) 121,109
3) 83,402
 Launch sales
1) 128,502
2) 129,119
3) 86,882

Super Mario Galaxy

 Launch sales
1) 260,993
2) 78,563
3) 44,750
 Launch sales
1) 689,270
2) 417,301
 Launch sales
1) 207,021
2) 165,553
3) 162,420

Halo 2

 Launch sales
1) 33,146
2) 5,403
3) 3,081
 Launch sales
1) 2,740,295
2) 534,033
3) 307,757

Halo 3

 Launch sales
1) 62,415
2) 7,133
3) 4,702
 Launch sales
1) 2,844,837
2) 607,401
3) 252,596
 Launch sales
1) 871,070
2) 178,385
3) 78,465

 

I wouldn't be so sure about your claim there. Apart from in Japan, SMG launched way better than NSMB. The NSMB numbers in Europe and America are about 50% of the total sales, for a quite respectable 5 million sales. Remember that NSMB launched to a much bigger user base. I would say that Galaxy will outperform NSMB in America and Europe, and underperform in Japan. Overall, I expect the SMG sales to be lower than NSMB but not by much.

Halo 3 is looking like charting very similarly to Halo 2 (but slightly higher). With a larger overall 360 userbase than Xbox, Halo 3 should outperform Halo 2.

Remember that NSMB sold 11.33 million and is still selling quite strongly, while Halo 2 sold 8.39 million and is still charting but much weaker. I wouldn't call the battle between Halo 3 and SMG over quite yet...