Damn, 360 really nailed it in the US! I am only having a little bit of trouble finding the 103% vs 8% growth of the PS3 vs the 360 in Germany believable.

Wii did a good job with it's bundles as well to get these numbers.

My guess is there was probably some good deal for the PS3 in Germany this last week.

Could be yeah, haven't really been checking up on the deals in the countries around me lately, i just hope they are more in line next week...

On a side note: Why is my Halo:CEA doing so (relatively) abysmal in the chartz everywhere?! :( :( :(

Isn't it the best selling remake for week 1? So far it's doing well! Should easily hit over a mil in it's second week.

I'm not sure actually, Halo:CEA is the first remake i ever bought due to my never ending love for Halo, I'll have to check the chartz for the other remakes, and it should be a fair profit for MS in the end, i just expected a little more from Halo you know... I suppose most people already played it in the past.

I feel this Halo wasn't advertised half as much as others in the past, if that. It's probably 343 studios putting on their Spartan helmets and getting used to how halo feels before making halo 4. Not to mention its more for the die hard halo fans, the pre-order and day 1 launch type.

While I do believe the PS3 was last on Black Friday, given the PR release, I don't think it was that far from the Wii's numbers.  VGC has the PS3 at 388,725.  Nintendo said they sold 500K Wii's just for Thursday night and Black Friday, which leaves ~141K (360 had slightly more) that were sold for the rest of the week.  I would imagine the PS3 would have around the same for the rest of the week.  So subtract 141K from the PS3's ~398K for the week, and you get 257K just for Black Friday.  Now Wal-mart has 4,288 stores in the US, including Sam's Club, and Target has 1,750.  That's ~6K between the both of them, which would give you an average of ~43 consoles per store.  That sounds like a pretty reasonable amount stock for the PS3 Holiday Bundle. 

The only problem is, there are many more stores that recieved those bundles.  When you count the thousands that went to Best Buys, to Game Stops, and to Radio Shacks, you are going to see that average number dwindle down into the 20s.  Then when you consider the thousands of others going to online retailers like Amazon, as well as the fact that not all the PS3s sold on Black Friday were the Holiday Bundle, that will probably drop those numbers into the low teens.  That just doesn't seem realistic to me.

yeah people tend to think that France has a bigger market, but as I previously proved only when you ignore PC sales, which make up over 1/3 of the total software sales in Germany. We have the highest amount of PC gamers in the main gaming markets percentage-wise.

yeah!!!!!!

Wow, now things get really exciting till the end of the year.

I'm stunned by the big numbers, and even more surprised the Wii outsold the PS3 (especially with the WiiU hanging over for next year.)

I think the new X360 Kinect Dashboard should have been released before Thanksgiving - so many US families getting together more newbies would see what it's like. Missed opportunity there. Still it will be interesting to see the responses after Tuesday (Dec 6, 2011). It's a talky version of what Apple and Goggle TV want to do.

And blown away that the X360 is so close to the Wii in the UK.

(Wondering and watching to see who will win 2011 for hardware.)