Would have been nice to see ridiculous halo reach sales over the holidays. Curse you microsoft, don't you now there are dozens of vgchartz fanatics you will deeply anger by giving away the digital copy instead of the physical. What I fear most is that online retailers will start selling halo reach download codes for ridiculously cheap like they did with alan wake and then halo reach physical sales will collapse.
The halo reach, fable 3 bundle will obviously sell well, but only to people who would have bought a 360 anyway. They are clearly trying to make a bundle for the casuals and one for core gamers. Since they seem to be trying to win the holidays without a pricecut they should have at least given us some good bundling, which they can obviously afford since the 360 hasn't had a pricecut in so long.
It should have been 4gig kinect bundle with kinect adventures, the disney game, and the sesamie street game for $300 to try to appeal to parents buying a gift for their little kid. The people who are buying the 250gig+kinect 360 are the core audience. The casuals are buying the 4gig+kinect so it makes no sense to bundle the 250gig+kinect with some casual little kids game. Parents aren't going to spend $400 on a gift. $300 is the max they should make a casual bundle cost
For the "core bundle" they should have made a custom 320gig 360 with custom sounds and visuals that includes the best known 360 exclusive ips. It should be bundled with forza 4, gears of war 3, halo reach, fable 3, and 1 year of xbox live gold for $400.
Both bundles should come out mid-late novemeber, giving forza 4 and gears of war 3 plenty of time to sell before the bundling begins. I think those bundles might actually convince people to buy xbox 360s who might have not bought a 360 without the bundles.
Additionally they should have worked with Ubisoft and tried to make a kinect bundle to appeal to girls with 4gig xbox with just dance 2 and dance central 2 for $350.
