ok i understand team fortress and unreal tournament, but WoW....Personally i've played counter-strike and Warcraft 3 competitively.  In counter-strike i got into cal m, and won some local tournaments. 

 I left recently. Within the last month.

For me, there were a variety of factors; the main was that I simply wasn't having fun anymore. Which isn't a knock on the game; I loved it. But 260 days after starting, I felt I'd milked the game for all it was worth :p

There are other reasons -- I have a girlfriend now, and felt the Wii was a much better way to play games with her. I knew WoW was unhealthy, so I wanted to stop for health reasons, too. 

 Haha yeah, I beta tested WoW and played it from release right up until about the 22nd of Jan or so. Right before BC released then I quit because I had been playing MMO's for far too many years. (Used to play DAoC before I moved to WoW) I probably had around 150 played in WoW. Just ridiculous. Loved the game but its design was to time consuming for me. All of the raiding and mat collecting FOR the raids and everything just burned me out. I uninstalled and reinstalled Q3:Arena (lol @ old ass games!) and would you believe there are still servers up? HA.

As for the topic I think NG is doing good on PS3. The only reason it looks bad is because people are silly, and heralded NG as the turning point for PS3. Anyone with some sense knew better. These RE4 and NG:S remakes are fine and all but they are not going to do big numbers. PS3 will get its REAL chance to turn things around with Everybodys golf in July. That is going to be an actual system seller. All of these other games up until that arent going to be substantial.

As for trusty bell; and to mrstickball, TB numbers is NOT including the bundles. The same way BD early 1st day numbers didnt include them. Because of this you are likely to see a much larger hardware spike in the Media Create hardware for 360 next week than you may think (judging from the numbers in this thread). TB has done well for itself there already. Im impressed. 

The Japanese Hardcore buy all three if they can afford or see value in it just like us. When it comes to games they usually lead the trends, new-genre brain games is where they are buying. We may think it is the casual audience that is buying every Brain Age/Cooking/Darts/etc game but too many are selling, casual gamers don't have the same attach rate hardcore gamers have.

Xryax - I was 90% sure that the o/d #s didn't include bundles. I would assume that there are probably 3-5k more units sold o/d of the bundle(s). Vinnk's post showed that there weren't a whole bunch of TB bundles left after first day.

The ironic thing is that for the prediction league, the X360 sales average is 4.5k units - No wonder I'm #2 overall right now :-p

Next week will be crazy for the 360. At this point in the first Xbox's life, it was selling 500-750 units a week. We might see 10 to even 20x that in one week (in addition to the fact that a typical week now is 4x the rate of sales).

More importantly than the spike TB, or even NGS give their respective systems: Will they increase the hardware sales from their base ammount? With TB, I think it's possible that after TB is out, and the platinum titles are selling well, that the 360 might drop to 2,750-3,000 units a week, and not to the 2,000-2,250 minimum's we've seen.

For Playstation 3, could we see sales increase to 9.5k or more a week, till the other big games roll around?

poor sales.
maybe japanese now care only about Brandnamed games? =)
or maybe no more hardcore gamers left? they become casuals, which are sitting now on DS and Wii.

Those TB sales will most probarbly not be enough to get the 360 pass PS3, but it might keep the xbox360 above 3k.

Does Folklore come out next week?

Yes ,Folklore comes out next week .

 And Ninja Gaiden isn't a brandnamed game? Or do you mean based on an Anime or something?

Eating humble pie yet?