superchunk, your "logic" is that of someone who has not thought this all the way through.

[I live in a small college town in California with two game stores. I drove by my local Gamestop at 9:30pm to see how many people were in line and there were around 30 people outside sitting on the ground or in chairs. By the time I showed up to pick up Halo 3 at 11:55pm, there must have been 150 or so, the line went out of the shopping center and into the street. I'd also like to point out that when I got home (1am Pacific time), 18 of my XBL friends were online and 16 were playing Halo 3. This afternoon it's 14 of 15. For comparison, in the first few days BioShock was probably played by around 30% of the people on my friends list. Anecdotal evidence, but given that it's Halo I'm sure this is representative. The bottom line is, no matter how many systems it sells, Halo 3 will easily replace Gears of War as the #1 game to get when you buy a 360.]

I didn't see a single person buy a 360, but after thinking about it, that makes sense. I'd say 95% of the people in line had fully pre-paid for Halo 3 (not just $10 but the full price): they presented their ID or receipt, picked up their copy of the game, and left. The line moved incredibly fast.
If you're going to go to Gamestop and pre-pay $60 to $130 for Halo 3 before it's out, wouldn't you buy a 360 right then if you didn't already have one? Why would you pay for Halo 3, but not buy a 360 yet?

It wasn't just that 360s didn't sell, no one got *anything* other than Halo 3.
Any 360s sold for Halo 3 would have been in the week or so before the launch for people who pre-ordered, or in the next few weeks for those who didn't. The midnight release of Halo 3 is the time people are LEAST LIKELY to buy a 360.

yeah it will.... and actually it already has... last week number is most certainly a bump in the curve due to people anticipating halo 3 release.....
and saying people who wants halo 3 have already 360 for other FPS that's total BS..... I know plenty of people who would buy an XB for and just for halo...... like a lot of my friends in europe were buying a PS2 for and only for winning eleven/PES.....
I put my body in auction on Ebay if halo 3 doesn't move XB unit..... i'm sure it will and I'm sure it already has..... and you know what that mean XB haters.... ???? it means the PS3 is going to be even further behind.... and won't catch up before mid 2009 if it ever does ;) just teasing :P

saw someone here in the UK with a 360 in his bag when i was walking home from school...I gess he bought it for Halo 3

I don't know anyone myself but most of my coworkers are Nintedo fans.

I made some guesses a while back but I think I was wrong, it looks like it did move a bunch of units.

Week ending Spet 16 had 90,000 360s sold. I am guessing 150,000 for week ending Spet 23. And for Halo week. I say 300,000. For anyone who doesn't think that is a lot that is triple what the Wii has been doing and about 8 times what MS was moving befre the price drop. It will drop back to about 100,000 the next 2-3 weeks and then it is all about the holidays with Halo representing a minor positive bump through New Years.

Outsde NA I am clueless.

Friend of mine bought 360 for Halo3. Well, he always wanted 360 but waited till Halo 3 came out. Grabbed myself a set (360 premium + halo 3) as well, but intended to resell. :P

wait a second... PPL are buying the 360 to play HALO3???!?!?!?!?!?!


HAHAHAHAHA...DUH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This game is far bigger then Bioshock and Gear of War, even put together. So there are plenty of people that simply waited for this one title before buyin the system, it'll definitly move the userbase. But I think an even bigger element, is how many people will be joining Live, the service has to be MS's bread and butter. and I know tons and tons of people who have 360s most of which haven't bothered with Live, because nothing on their has been too exciting for them. So Imagine, Halo 3 ins't just a multi-million seller, it's seperate SKUs and LIVE attach rate, has to add huge cash.

Plus for those who question the money brought in by Halo 3 think about all the other crap it sells, I bet when downloadable content goes on sale it will sell in the millions too. Between that and GTA having downloadable content, Microsoft will have an incredibly strong LIVE userbase, one in which is already making them advertising dollars.

Friend of mine works for "a large gaming chain" in Canada.

Her store had 100 copies, sold every one. Only one console sold.

I want a 360 but Halo3 didn't make me jump and buy one. I am still worried about the failure rate of the system and scratching discs is a no-way for me now.

I will probably get a 360 and Halo 3 when the price for the premium drops to $300 or below (but only if they fix the shoddy motherboard/cooling design by then)