not to throw a wrench in things, but the fact that Cmas falls on a Saturday this year kind of throws things off. In some years when Cmas is early in the week, the week featuring the last saturday before Cmas (busiest shopping day of the year) is larger. 07 is a good example of that, I think Cmas eve was on monday or tuesday that year. What this means is next week the falls should not be nearly as harse because there will still be basically 6 more days of shopping to be done with Cmas eve being the 2nd busiest shopping day of the year.
End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)
Wii- 72 million 3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases
360- 37 million Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak
PS3- 29 million Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut
