This week's list shows that software took a huge dive across the board. Huge drops for Overlord and Darkness were expected, but not as bad as they were, with both flirting with -70% decreasses. Darkness should hit 300k, and Overlord could hit 250k before everything's said and done, but lets hope they don't keep tumbling.

The oddity: Guitar Hero is #2. It climbed up from #5, with a small drop, to re-take a great spot on the list.

Small drops were observed in FM2, Bigs (which is odd), and a decent, but still large, drop by Transformers and Dirt. GRAW 2 increased unit sales by nearly 2k week over week. GRAW2 could hit 750k before it dies, or even more. RSV continues to do very well, as well as FNR3, and GOW.

Milestones: GH2 hit 900k, and will hit 1m in 4 weeks. FNR3 hit 1m finally, Dead Rising finally hit 750k, Oblivion hit 1.2m (and deserves it), Crackdown hits 800k (and is almost out of gas @ 4k in weekly sales), Lost Planet hit 725k, and TMNT hit 100k.

Japanese questions: With no new games, can 360 s/w stay above 7500 units for the week? Will the 360 h/w stay above 2500, or keep plummetting to the worst levels of the year (2000?). The biggest question is where Trusty Bell ends up at. It had a decent last week @ 3700 units. Can it get above, or below, 2000 units for the week? 2500+ would be the best case, and 2000 or below would mean it'll wind up with 70k or less.

No real changes in Japan, as #1-5 stay the same. Software sales were down around 30% from last week, which is decent considering no new games were out. Trusty Bell and Saints Row had decent holds for their respective weeks, and Dead Rising continues to do very well.

I would expect end totals to be: Trusty Bell with 85~90k, Saints Row with 17.5k, Dead Rising with 85k, Forza Motorsports with 30k, Blue Dragon with 205k or more, and the rest changing minimally.

Trusty Bell also just overtook Lost Planet for #7 on the X360 overall charts. Next up is DOAX2 at 63k. It should hit this number in 2 weeks, barring any unforseen things.

Next week, Project Sylpheed releases in the US, and GRAW 2 releases in Japan. Expect PS to bomb pretty bad in the US around 15k, or so. GRAW could do moderately well, and wind up with around 10k for it's first week, akin to RSV. Hardware should stay the same in Japan due to GRAW 2 helping slightly, and US should go up a little bit.

Updated with Japanese data.

Doesn't anyone want to talk about the 360? hehe.
Once I get my FTP program up, and an image editor, I'll post some comparison charts up of Xbox 2003 vs. X360 2006 vs. X360 2007. Rather interesting.

Nice work !!!

I hope Overlord and The Darkness will have better legs next week because both deserve it.

I think BD won't beat the sales of DOA:3 (235k) but I think it will end up close to those numbers.
And I think X360 will sell another 260k this year in Japan, so at the end of the year 672k.
Do you know why the 360 dropped so much in NA?
What are your expectations for TEIV: Oblivion in Japan? My expectations are 60k - 80 k in launch week.

Trusty Bell did horrible, I wonder if they expected numbers closer to Blue Dragon.

Also Viva Panita has good legs considering how long it's been out for compared to the others around it.

It's sad to see the Darkness not selling more, I really think it's been one of the best games so far this year. I think the weak multiplayer really hurts its sales on 360.

Guitar Hero seems to be very succesful on the 360 just like it's been on the PS2 to my surprise (I expected success but not this much).

I don't expect Project Sylpheed to be a massive success this week, I'm expecting sales in the 30-50 k region at most but who knows it is a budget title...

Eh. Darkness has done well overall, but since its multi-port, it might of generally hurt X360 sales of the game. It's on the top 5 MGC tags list, so I can assume it's doing decently worldwide.

GH2 is just phenominal on X360. Considering it's basically a PS2 port + DLC shows that the game isn't catering to a supposed hardcore basis, but an actual midlecore audience. It really isn't slowing down, either. At 30k/wk, its a phenominal beast. Even Rainbow Six Vegas ( a very strong seller) hasn't been able to post those kinds of legs. Expect GH2 to hit atleast 1.5m.

Trusty Bell hasn't done "horrible". No one expected Blue Dragon numbers. It had a great first week, but suffered the typical JPRG drop. However, in it's 3rd and 4th weeks, it's done decent. It'll atleast get 70k, but could do quite a bit more....Remember, Blue Dragon did 50% of it's sales its first 4 weeks, but afterwards, was a top-5 game since it debuted. As far as Namco is concerned, I have this sinking feeling they used the IdolM@ster engine, and made the game on the cheap. Either way, it'll hit RR6 numbers.

Blue Dragon won't hit DOA3 numbers, but to be fair, DOA3 had alot more going for it. Sales of the Xbox were very very strong at the beginning, and DOA3 had a FAR better attach ratio than any other game at launch. Plus the fact is, the Xbox sold 180k units in it's first 5 weeks - alot of people picked up DOA3 in the beginning, whereas Blue Dragon launched with a mere 175,000 X360s in cycle in Japan. Very very good numbers considering everything. If Japan had a similar US hardware sales ratio, Blue Dragon would be at 3,000,000 units sold (not including software tier ratios).....Even better than the US sales of Gears of War.

Oblivion? Who knows. Supposedly preorders are more than TB. I expect 100k LTD.