Halo 4 Limited 360s WILL sell. That is an example of a game selling a system. COD 360 bundle last year........nuff said. 

"why would the 7th Halo game or 8th CoD game bring in new people??"

Like I said before but you seemed to ignore......yesterdays kids are todays teens. Its no secret a part of COD and Halo gamers are teens, hell even younger. The world goes on and grows up. Then theres also current gamers just swept up in the media blitz or get the game because their buddies got it. Plenty ways to bring in new gamers to existing franchises. 

The DS is last gen now so bad example. 

Historicall, new IPs late in the gen actually sales flop rather then sell systems. "Blockbusters" sell systems more then anything else. 

people still care? wow

Actually that's not even remotely true. It has been proven that any Halo with a limited edition console sells hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of consoles every year, and the 360 gets a huge boost from COD as well (a lot of that is due to bundles as well). 

BTW where is this PS3 slim thing coming from? I hear a lot of people talking about it but I haven't seen any rumors for it yet.

But all in all I see the gap being around 1.5 million by January 2013 and the lowest I think it will dip to is under 1 million right around late October.

PS3 is kickin all kinds of ass lately. That's why I got one last year. Good thing I did, cuz Sony gave me a bunch of "free" games. And they rock!

I don't know how they will do, but Sony has a blockbuster PS3 bundle with Assassin's Creed III this holiday season. Plus Black Ops 2 will still be massive on PS3. However Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed III are parallel to each other. 360 has exclusive BO2 content (timed) and PS3 has exlcusive Assassin's Creed content.

However, Sony also has a redesign coming for the PS3 and who knows how PlayStation All-Stars and LittleBigPlanet Karting are going to do. They won't sell 10 million units a piece (or they might, who knows, if they are great games word of mouth spreads, I guess it's possible).

Plus the hype for titles like God of War: Ascension, Beyond: Two Souls and The Last of Us coming next year will entice people to buy the system this year. To build up for the massive titles next year.

And we all know that Wonderbook is easy going to be a system seller this holiday. I mean look at it. How can it not be the next big thing? (For the less intelligent, YES THIS SENTENCE WAS SARCASM)

Ya but if the new ps3 slim rumors are true, then there will be three different models.  The 16GB, 250GB, and 500GB.  And if the new slim is as small as it seems to be, then the materials will cost considerably less than the current ps3 model. I believe it will go like this,  16GB --> $150-$175; 250GB --> $200; and 500GB --> $250.

Sony will, without a doubt, be making a profit on the 16GB and even more on the higher models.  You can't possibly believe that sony will make the same mistake and take a loss on the console.  

All fanboyism aside, people are talking nonsense if they think halo and call of duty won't be system sellers. Halo has proven to be a system seller anumber of times in the past and a limited edition console WILL boost sales quite substantially as most limited edition consoles tend to do. I also think the Xbox will have a price cut and assuming ps3 has no price cut or new model this holiday season, Xbox will sell more (in November/December).

If ps3 wants to match Xbox it has to have a new slim released with a low hardrive, low price model comparable to the 4gb Xbox aswell as bigger hardrive models. Playstation all stars and wonder book are wild cards here I think. With sonys track record of poor advertising most people assume these won't do well, but if marketed correctly, with bundles and good support I think these can be big. Littlebigplanet could also do well if marketed well to the casuals. An Assasins creed 3 bundle should do well too.

If these situations take place for both consoles I can honestly see it being equal. But, no new model ps3 and no ps3 price cut and I think Xbox will win the holidays.

Well, initially I took it as him wanting the gap to stay as VGC shows. Considering VGC current history with shipment data, NPD and everything else, I too would hope they stay accurate rather than once again displaying discrepencies of greater than 30%.

Gilgamesh your waaaaaaay off in thinking Halo 4 isnt a system seller.

The LE Halo 4 360 will sell 150k or more

I know for a fact there will be some as well, but with NPD now showing big differences (Even more so since NPD got access to Walmart) I fear for how off their numbers outside the US are going to be.