Even after Reach was release there are anywhere from 70,000 to 120,000 players online playing H3 at any given time, H2 had an average of about 27,000 people online at any given time right before it became unsuported (6 years, one major, and one minor Halo release later mind you). Also Halo is a FPS,  FPS are the uprising console king (much to some gamer's chagrin), the same cannot be said of the GT franchise, they may have been king at one point in time, but that ship has sailed. Lifetime sales mean nothing with the changing demographics.

Halo 3 ltd sales NA 2 to  1 over Europe based on existing 

Halo 3 first week sales: NA 3 to 1 over  Europe. Clearly the NA gamers are the biggest Halo fans. 

Halo Reach sales following a similar pattern.

Halo Reach: first week sales NA 3 to 1 over Europe. Ltd sales should be around 2 to 1 in favour of NA over Europe. 

NA is a bigger shooter gamer market than Europe.

Well Halo: Reach had similar week one sales with Halo 3, do you honestly beleive that over the course of the next 3 years, that it will sell exactly the same was as Halo 3 did? The market was very different in 2007 then it is now, and Halo is one of the best rated exclusives of 2010. It's got a lot of hype with casual gamers, and now that there is a larger install base, it has the potential to sell better then Halo 3. Week one sales are generally due to hardcore gamers, and as Reach numbers show, there are not too many more of them, but there are a lot more potential buyers for Reach then there were for Halo 3.

There is no real reason to beleive Reach will show stronger legs then Halo 3, but there is also no real reason to beleive Reach won't show stronger legs then Halo 3. The only thing that can really be certain is that Reach will most likely outsell Halo 3 by at least 500k. I think 2 million, but only time will tell.

As for a new Halo, Halo 4 could very well be a launch title for a successor console. We just don't know anything about it. However I doub't 343 Studios will make a spin-off to cut sales like ODST did to Halo 3. They will most likely build a new game from the bottom up.

and the very next line....

"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 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 3s 1st week release years ago.  Yeah yeah i know no JP numbers but there not out yet for Reach and i dont think they would play much role. "

Read the bold, I'm compareing Japanese sales figues since GT4P was basically not released outside of Japan.

Sorry but it doesn't make any sense. If you don't want to have the topic be about comparing it why mention it let alone write 8 lines about it as an introduction to your post? Why mention GT5 at all? I think most people know what he really meant.

I think he just wanted to explain a bit about how people have mixed views on Reach sales, and he used arguements people have had about Reach vs. GT5 as an example. Also he may have just been saying that comparing week 1 sales of Reach to GT5 is stupid, and Halo 3 is a much better game to compare to.

Regardless, it wasn't the point of his initial post.

Sorry mate i don't buy that for a second. If your going to compare two products regardless if they are games,cd's,films or whatever you don't talk randomly about a 3rd product. You just talk about the two you wish to compare. If you mention a 3rd product and talk about it more then the other two your comparing 3 products. I'm with the others on this, there was hidden motives for mentioning it.

Okay well, no one was talking about GT5 before you came in, and the title of the thread is Halo Reach vs. Halo 3.

Maybe he just wanted to get a point across about GT5 because he is sooo angry at the world, and thinks the moon is about to fall on his dog and crush it. It's be pretty annoyed if the moon were about to fall on my dog and crush it. I'd be so angry, I'd still get a copy of GT5, but I'd get it while I'm angry cause the moon fell on my dog and crushed it. Then I'd play the game, enjoying a nice cold glass of iced tea, and be thinking why did the damn moon have to fall on MY dog on crush it..

Then I'd realize without the moon, the Earth would topple out of it's stable tilt, seasons would change so quickly and drastically, that the human population would dwindle, and people would start eating dogs to avoid starvation. Then I'd be happy my dog wasn't around for that, but still be angry that the moon fell on my dog and cruhed it, and that the world will no longer the the same as it used to be. I'd think that because the moon fell on my dog and crushed it, and thus without my dog, how could the world be the same as it used to be?

He did talk about exploding moons in the original post too didn't he? So I'm not off topic....

Halo 3 was the game 360 owners waited for, i got my 360 when Bioshock came out which was 1 month before Halo 3. Of course i also got Halo 3 and many other games, it was pretty much the fall of 2007 which made me buy a 360.

Reach while good, it has a strong compeditor named COD which is a bigger franchise now than it was back then. Halo is big though and it will have legs, i still say that by the end of this generation Halo Reach will be the most sold game on the 360, even though it came it short of 1 million on COD MW2. The reason of course being that COD gets updated now, wheres Halo probably has at least 2 years before something new in the Halo franchise happens and its not even Bungie so we don't know how that will turn out.