There will never be a product with the Star Wars logo on it that sells poorly, ever. The fanbase is so big that no matter what is released, no matter how bad or how good, 50 million people will buy it. It's not like people have a choice anyway--you can either buy the SE, or not have Star Wars in high def. It's the reason why the majority of the people here own the 2004 DVDs--imagine that! It's absurd. But that's the chokehold Lucasfilm has. Special Edition sales numbers tell us a lot about the amount of fans the franchise has, but they don't tell us much about how much approval the Special Edition has, because there is no point of comparison.