Jester,

Thanks for the added info and accompanying figures - very helpful in terms of how to think about ATVI and their premier franchise this season. Of course, i still can't cut and paste, but Forbes/tech has an article out today on the author's - Paul Tassi's - take on what BLOPS3 must do sales-wise to be a success - and while he allows that it might not be the case, mostly he's sounding pessimistic that it will do what he thinks needs to be done, and then in subsequent years he cites even greater challenges. The thing is IIRC Tassi has often published fairly clueless pieces on Forbes, so I'm not sure that his critique holds all that much water.