http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-09-21-halo-reach-doubles-uk-360-sales

What were last weeks UK sales for the 360?

19k last week

this is still better than no effect at all

same will happen in the US (perhaps better indeed)

So much for that "All Halo Fans Already have an Xbox" argument

The same thing Sony enjoyed after the PS3 slim release, MS is now enjoying with the XB360 slim release.. and now Halo Reach is going to intensify this effect for a few weeks as well..

Before Jun-Jul 2010, Sony was still enjoying the PS3 slim 'effect' .. PS3 was way up (on yearly sales) over the 360 by like 1.2 million !  ( Which the overall lifetime gap was down to XB360 being up 4 million units on PS3, which remember folks 360 was over 6 million up before PS3 slim release)

360 has now closed the gap so much and sold such a hugh number of consoles in a short time that the gap ( in this years sales, not lifetime sales ) is now under 400k units ( between the two consoles ) worldwide and by 2010 years end the 360 will have surpassed the PS3 in yearly sales.. in what formerly (pre XB 360 slim release) looked to be a PS3 year, but not anymore ... The PS3 slim looked to be Sony's ace, but they forgot MS could, and did do the same thing with an Ace of their own.  Biggest trouble for Sony now isn't software sales.. Its the huge gap in software in which XB360 has sold 120 million more games worldwide then the PS3.. Which is why you're seeing less exclusives and more multi-platform games.. Remember folks many of the guy who made exclusives loyaly for Sony and now make multi-platform titles instead used to be loyal to Nintendo (Pre-Sony PlayStation1 release)..  Money breaks a lot of loyalty.. and back then Sony showed developers a rising profit margin because game developers had to 'absorb' ( see loose cash) on cartridges.. Nintendo sold game cartridges back then for 50-60 dollars.. the cartridge internals cost like 15 dollars.. which meant profit left to share was like 35 dollars.. Sony comes along and says we'll put your game on CD which cost 60 cents and you get almost all profit to share !  Now Sony has less consoles out there.. less owners means less people buying games..

woohooo halo reach

Yeah I agree.. what those jealous people who make all those arguments don't get is VERY SIMPLE:

Only 43.1 Million people out of world's 4.8 BILLION population own Xbox 360's... so...People who have never owned a console are buying 360's EVERY SINGLE DAY ( and yes the same can be said for any other console ) .. and games like HALO are console pushers.. PS3 needs more goof FPSs which is why their best seller is COD MW2.. PS3 also has less titles then 360 which to some is a shocker, because if you listen to the Sony spinsters you're gonna beleive 360 ( which has sold 120 million more games worldwide then the PS3 ) has less choice.. I Love NHL and Fable on my 360 as much as people do on their PS3

I really wish my Pro or arcade unit would die so I could buy the new Halo reach console bundle.

But the damn console doesn't skip a beat almost 2 years after purchase... Cant justify buying another console since I already have 2.

UK and possibly US is the only 2 places I see this happening, so 250k plus is still doable I reckon.

A lot better than I expected!!