Halo Reach vs Halo 3 1st Week By The Numbers

[Michael-5]

BHR-3 said:

  Ive been making a few threads here on VGCharts about GT5 vs Reach LTD, HW boost from SW launch, and GT5s 1st weeks sales.  In those threads i noticed a clear pattern emerged a lot of VGCharts posters seemed to favor Halo Reach, I've been also getting PMs and wall posts saying "BHR-3 hang up your jacket GT5s done stop comparing it to Reach it will never out do it", "Reach is the FPS game of the century and the most wanted FPS of 2010 if you werent such a Sony fan you would see this", and "BHR-3 havent you've seen how big the 360s userbase has gotten since Halo 3 you'd be foolish not to think that Reach wont double its 1st week".

Now i dont want to turn this thread into a reach vs gt5 thing the thread is more about me "continuing my work" and is just a statistical point for the future events that are almost upon us, and since reach numbers came out i thought some would want to see how the Halo series has grown and how reach stacked up against Halo 3 release years ago.  Yeah yeah i know no JP number but there not out yet for Reach and i dont think they would play much role. 

I already have a thread like this, but I compare to more then just Halo 3:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=115642&page=1&str=654113874#

I'm just waiting on those Japanese numbers before I update my initial post, and to be honest, I'm dissapointed in Reach sales. 70% larger base, and only 5% larger sales. Those Pre-orders fooled me, but who knows It may keep up strong sales for a long period of time.

Japanese Numbers gave a 60k SW boost to Halo 3, I'm expecting around 65k for Reach.

As for GT5, I expect a massive jump in Japan because of that sexy blue PS3 Slim. I can easily see GT5 having a strong first week if that sexy blue PS3 Slim were released everywhere. Sony thinks only the Japanese like colourful PS3's, but they are wrong. GT5 should still make a big hardware increase since it's sold in November, a time of peak HW sales. A 50% jump then is equvilent to a 100% jump now.