that would be brilliant, but a little over the top maybe??

Before I start let me say that I actually like the GOW series as it is my second favourite games in hack n slash right after bayonetta and although I dont believe it will sell the amount of systems based on GOW 1/2 performance it will sell a little more than both of them though LTD.

Now back to what we were talking about......the accessibility you speak of really hinders a game with very limited replayability to begin with. If I go replay bayonetta right now I can tackle each level with a different weapon and different combo list with each weapon actually having some use.

Although alot of combos are in bayonetta , its not complicated to pull off from most of the combos and some youll find easier to pull off  than others but its done in such an elegant way that by the end of the game you will have your own favourite weapon and have done about most the combos for that weapon at least once(they show you a tally in each loading screen) and still have more to discover that will make you go "wow I should have done that before". In GOW , I know everything I need to know about the combat system in 5 minutes and leaves no surprises later on.

In short bayonetta is as complicated as you make it , someone can play the game without playing a HnS in their life and still enjoy it as the elegant combat system and its epic single player will leave you wanting more. In GOW , there is no incentive to play the game again as youve done everything there is to do in it and seen everything there is to see in it in the first 5 minutes.

The franchise moved from the PS2 to PS3,so I'm sorry for the people that are underrating the game's potential to move hardware.
Fable II moved 360 hardware by 10%,the game releasing in America only,now GoW has a much bigger fan base than Fable,and the game is releasing in both America and Europe in the same week,and also GoW III is looking to be even bigger than Fable II.
So i would expect a hardware boost around 20-40%.
So...75k-100k is looking to be the highest boost it can get.

A.  A 10% boost heading toward holiday is different than one in March. 

B.  How do we know it was because of Fable?  Numbers go up and down 8,9, 10%  all the time.  Wii sold about 10% in Americas last week versus this week.  What game came out last week to drive higher numbers?

C.  A game releasing in in year 3 of the generation is going to be more likely - on its own - to persuade someone to buy a console than a game in year 5.  More people have made a choice of one (or two or all) systems.  More people are going to evaluate the whole catalog.

To whomever said "It's like saying Alan Wake won't move 360's".  Do you really think some obscurely named new IP is going to have people rushing out to pick up 360's?  No one knows anything about that game except for the people on sites like this.  And 99% of us have our consoles already.  Alan Wake on its own moves zero 360's.