How much will Halo Wars sell?

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Slimebeast said:
You have Sony fanboys saying laughable numbers in this thread for obvious reasons.

Halo Wars will sell at least 3 million in it's first year.

* like the OP said, user base of X360 when Halo Wars is released is massive compared to C&C release.

Important , but then again it won't push Halo Wars to 3 Million.

* C&C wasn't exlusive to X360 platform. These 2 factors alone will secure Halo Wars will sell 1 million.

No I dought exclusivity with a game suh as this will make much difference in sales , it's a new game.

* Halo-fans will try RTS-gaming for real thanks to this game. When Halo Wars is released, there will be 8 million Halo 3 sold. At least 1/5 will of these buy Halo Wars (1.6 mill). ---> 2.5 million.

Halo 3 is an FPS , Halo Wars is an RTS I seriously dought 1/5 of Halo fans will buy it purely because of the name

* Christmas release is the best time.

* Ensemble studios is the dev. Their Age of Empires series sell in the 6-10 millions for each release. Ensemble make +90% games, top notch AAA titles.

This I have to agree with , Ensemble made the greatest RTS EVER !!!

* These two above factors plus big marketing could mean another 1 mill.

Marketing can only do some much for a genre that traditionaly doesn't apeal to a significant % of console userbases.

Conclusion: most likely around 3.5 million sold world-wide in it's first year.

2nd Conclusion , your conclusion fails.