Worldwide up!

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It happened last week by the look of things, but I only noticed this week. PS3 version of Black Ops is now ahead of Halo: Reach. That doesn't mean anything for Halo: Reach, but it says a lot about the popularity of FPS on PS3.

It gives hope for good sales of KZ3 and R3 on the one hand, but on the other hand it could mean nothing for these games. CoD players aren't necessarily going to get R3 or KZ3 in any significant proportion, but one can hope.

Great to see another >500K week for GT5, probably won't be anything like that high for the final week of 2010, but it'll only take until the 1st week in January to clear 5 million I think. Remember those who said 4-5 million would be GT5's lifetime sales? Those people were as deluded as those who thought Kinect would only sell 5 million lifetime. 5 million is a huge milestone for Sony because GT5 will be the first 1st party title to sell 5 million, and the 2nd exclusive (MGS4 just got there).

I still think America's PS3 number is a tad low, with a fairly miniscule lift from the previous week and the only current gen console (aside from PSP which we all know is failing in Americas) to sell more through EMEAA than in the Americas. I hope thast doesn't mean EMEAA adjusted down. Would be nice to see PS3 crack 900K for the week.

Brilliant sales for the top 3 this week. 2*1million for 360 was not something I thought would happen even when it was clear Kinect is gonna be huge. I won't be surprised if 360 is the top selling console in Americas for 2011 (including DS/3DS if that market gets fragmented between the old and the new).