Another combined chart. I think the 3 territory charts are the neatest, since a few specific titles are moving insane numbers of games a week right now....But I'll comment on a few local (Japan and NA specific) games.

 Notes!

#1. Wow. Assassain's Creed just obliterates everything even though it's been out for 3-4 weeks. Ubisoft HAS to be happy that AC is probably one of the first, if not the only, Xbox 360 games to reach #1 on each countries individual (or in this case, Europe). Just great. Media Create has AC at 41,000 on the week. So we might even see Japanese numbers go up. 2.5m is near-assured. I think it'll die quick after Christmas, but it could do much better. Another 2m+ X360 seller......Insane.

#2. Call of Duty 4 continues a great, long drive to the 2m mark. If CoD2 and 3 were any indication, it'll atleast hit 3m. Another big MS succuess.

#3. Mass Effect has a pretty decent (to me) 2nd week. 500k in 2 weeks is nothing to balk at, so I won't. The game deserves vastly more sales. Hopefully, people realize the greatness of this game, and pick it up. Compared to Oblivion, it's currently beating Oblivion by *around* 70k worldwide at this point in it's life (Oblivion had around 330k in the US, and about 120k in Europe, give or take).

#4. Need 4 Speed Pro Street continues strong European legs. I don't have # drops yet, but Europe was nearly unchanged. Expect good Christmas legs, and massive dropoffs afterwards....In the US. In Europe, expect strong charting for a very, very long time.

#5. Guitar Hero 3 has a pretty big (50%) drop in Europe. However, NA legs are big. 2m LTD should be expected. And that'll be great for GH3.

#6. Halo 3 has another decent, 100k+ week. Expect a few more 100k+ weeks before Christmas, before it begins it's hovering for the next 5 years. I have a huge expected LTD, but I'm sticking with my original max prediction. Remember, I still believe that it's vastly undertracked in Europe (460k opening in the UK alone, and it's only at 1.5m? WTF?). Also, it's sold huge in Taiwan, South Korea, and Austrailia. None of those numbers are tracked here.

Everything else: Meh. PES08 has a good hold in Europe, and has a decent 2nd week in Japan. PES08 in Japan will greatly exceed the last iteneration. Another 1m+ seller.

Other notes, outside the top 10:

I can't wait for more European numbers. Should be good for a few games...Hopefully they increase the X360's total software base. 600k s/w seems a bit low.

America Notes:

Madden continues to do well (#11). It's at 1.33m in the US currently. That's more than 230,000 above Madden 08 at the same time last year. At this rate, even if it never sold an extra copy above that 230k, it'd hit 2m LTD....However, last year's charts have Madden 07 doing ~10k more vs. this year. A trend? or not?

Casual games continue to absolutely flood the X360 market for Christmas. There are so many games doing well, just outside the top 10. Lego Star Wars, both LCS and #2 did 40,000 combined for the week. Both will easily hit 1m before it dies (its at 600k right now). Everyone forgets LSW is doing great.

Simpsons Game, Scene It? Guitar Hero 2, and even Pirates of the Carribean 3 are still charting well. POTC 3 is doing very well. With a horrible opening, it's just about to hit 250k.

Dead Rising hit 11,000 units sold in the US alone. Wow. It's at 919k. At this rate, it will hit 1m in the US alone. Great. Just great. It deserves every unit.

Anyone ever notice the fact that the cheap Platinum titles are doing insane? Viva Pinata, at $20, is now charting 10k/wk. Saints Row, Perfect Dark Zero, Rainbow Six Vegas, Lost Planet, Elder Scrolls, and such all chart in the top 50, and do above 5k each. Very good.

Again, Viva Pinata is continuing to roll, and did 11k in the US, and charted in the UK for the first time in forever - 1m seems likely now.  

rock band hasnt been realeased in europe so y have u got sale figures for it????

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I think "Others" isn;t just for Europe only.

it dosnt say others it says eur witch means europe

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Sorry, my bad, that may be for NA sales since NA sales is blank.

And you say JL's predictions are off..

Some of those predicted LTD's are even more off..*cough halo cough*

yeah halo 3 will never sell 13 million but it might if the xbox 360 sells more than 40 million ww

I respect everyone's opinions on Halo 3 only doing a bit more than 10m units but.....

Halo 2 was hugely frontloaded like Halo 3. However, it had insanely long legs after the huge debut. It managed 2m sales in the US alone after it's first Christmas, on a system that sold maybe 3 million more hardware units.

i love xbox 360 - I agree that Halo 3 won't do near 13.5m units if the X360 didn't move more than 40m X360s. However, I believe it will. That's why my prediction is so high. I fully expect the Xbox 360 to wind up with 25-35 million hardware sold in the US alone....Which is what makes my predicton feasable.

I think the problem is Halo 3 will have more competition from other big 90+ AAA games on the 360 than Halo 2 did on the original Xbox.

Already Halo 3 is getting lost in the shuffle and is just another big game as Orange Box, CoD4, AC, Mass Effect and others are released. That will only get worse next year as big games like UT3, GTAIV, Fallout 3, Fable 2, Too Human, Alan Wake, and others are released.
And then eventually there will be Gears of War 2, and BioShock 2, and Call of Duty 6...

If the 360 does 40m, how many bigger and better FPS games will be released by the end of its lifespan (including perhaps Halo 4)?