MS has managed to place all their pieces at very strategic points for the rest of the year. It may seem like they don't have a huge line-up but all the big games have enough time to sell before the next is released.

My take on the slow PS3 sales is the new black shiny box on duh street.

Whereas I agree that a large portion of sales have gone to existing customers either as second units or replacments I also feel that Microsoft are actually also attracting PS3 owners who have been sitting on the fence.

Microsoft have finally produced a product that tackles for them  the 4 major points which I believe to be :-

Noise

Reliability

Storage

WiFi

The one area that still remains is the cost of online play but I think that it is a given that this will not be going away and actually if anything I think Sony missed a trick here.

I actually believe a very similar thing happened wih the PS3 Slim although not strictly speaking an upgrade as it removed some key features for some but for others the svelt machine overcame these deficiences and it attracted 360 owners who were also sitting on the fence but probably for the reason of cost.

All in all the redesigns have been very good for the industry the proof in my theory will be if we see software sales rise as it proves to be the achiles heal in my argument currently.

Great X360 sales... Slim and deals effect.

PS3 and Wii so close... only 20k.

I wonder if the 360 is gonna beat the DS?

nice 360 S sales.. just thinking about christmas sales makes me giddy :o

So the "slim effect" is still there. Quite impressive! Although I still think that many of the sales come from already existing 360 owners it's really amazing to sell more than 100k in the 5th week.

I wonder how long we will see much higher sales than the Wii. In Europe I guess it won't be long (except for UK), in America it could last for a few months.

Wow epic 360 sales....it just keeps piling on week after week of excellent sales.

Good numbers for everything!

except PSP

lol you obviously don't know a lot about sales, what can halo reach do add in 7k-10k when it comes out, if the 360 does get a boost it will be because pf the holiday season same for fable 3, halo 3 and fable 2 already came out this gen. u do know black ops is multiplat, it wont bring any boost, but if 360 gets a boost its from kinect, and for the arcade s it will boost sales but not by much its 4gb, also anyone who wants an s will get the current one.