@Famine: Splinter Cell, Left 4 Dead, Huxley, just off the top of my head. They also have been focussing on their lineup for this year, keeping next year close to their chest.

i'm glad they finally figured out that europe is key to their sucess. they have been way to focused on japan lately. japan is an important market but MS stands to gain a lot more from europe.

Lol at MS post-Moore...

Good thing for European gamers I guess. This has to mean they're gonna get aggressive at pricing, particularly around GTA4 time (which I think is going to be the make or break moment in Europe for MS).

Good Luck. LOL.
Unless the will be NO MORE RROD, they won`t increase in sales.
But by THAT time PS3 will BE superior in all ways.

And when by the end of 2008, average PC will outperform x360, NEW users won`t need x360, because most it`s game they will be able to play on PC, while PS3 will attract them with superior line of EXCLUSIVE games.

 Please, take your finger off that shift key. It makes my eyes hurt, and makes you look like an idiot.

exactly what I think... it would be economically stupid to cut it now... when they have still the lead almost everyweek WW... even if it would help in europe.... thay are still doing fairely well for holiday season at least better than last year... the best move is to wait january or any time the sells goes back to normal and then see if they are really threatened in europe and then chose between doing it early or waiting a good occasion like a good game launch...

you can be certain that all of them have already a marketing plan ready for next year and between sony and ms... ms has still more cards in hand than sony, all will depend on how well they play it...

now about japan it is ridiculous indeed... I do believe they can increase sale next year wih good japan market exclu IPs... but lets face it even a gigantic 25% sale increase for Ms would represent a ridiculous total amount of console... but at least it could built some goodwill for MS for eventual 3rd console if the japs who bought the XB are satisfied with it.. which looks like it... because the attach rate seems pretty good and the very small amount of console they sold over there...

I fail to see how the 360 is going to increase its sales by 50% next year when

1) It will still be above mass market price point even with a price cut

2) Its library will still mainly target the core gamer and the hardcore gamer.

Titles like Alan Wake, Too Human, Halo Wars, Fable 2, Banjo Kazooie, are not proven IPs/system sellers. They will probably end up selling well, but they'll sell to the userbase and not really move any hardware in the same way as Lost Planet, GRAW: 2, Forza 2, Madden 08, etc. Some of them could end up flopping outright.

The 360 had a price cut and the extremely-hyped launch of by far its most prominent titles(Halo 3), and it still will have only sold about eitht million units this year, so it's highly unlikely that it's going to see that kind of sales increase when it has nothing anywhere near as big as Halo, no exclusive proven IPs/system sellers, and will still be fairly expensive, especially for a console in its third year.