umm...i'm more willing to believe that VGChartz figures for the last 3 weeks are off by the same degree they were in July: roughly 25%...that'd make an average of 70k console in the last 2 weeks. After all VGChartz in the past has already missed sales data but has proved to be really accurate when it comes to measure the increase (in percentage) after a price drop (see PS3): no reason to doubt that the actual increse for X360 after price drop has been of about 50% and not 100%.

Having said that i do believe that we might see a further increase in sales in September following Bioshock's "long tide" and helped by the "back to school"-effect...and then there's Halo 3: the X360 momentum is definitely going to last.

Good news for the 360. The 360 and Wii might be going neck and neck in console sales for the next few weeks.

You forgot a computer being needed for FPS'.  At least for those who like to have good controls with them.  I'd also mention 3RRoD but we all know about that.  At any rate I'll stick with PC gaming thank you.

I don't think a similar increase for the 360 as the PS3 with a smaller price cut is that surprising.  Often as a price for a product rises the demand drops slowly until a certain price is reached at which demand collapses before continuing to slowly fall.  I have no idea where those prices are for video game systems but I would suspect the kink occurrs is somewhere between $300-400.  If it is say $360 then that would be how the 360 could get the same boost from a $50 price cut as the PS3's $100 pricecut.  I'm not saying that is what happened just that as a possibility it means it isn't surprising.

Also looking at past price cut effects it looks like 50-100% increase is pretty common whether the cut was from $200-150 or $300-200 or $180-150.  We'll see if GS' experience is typical in a month.  Just because it matched the mean value last time doesn't mean it will again.  It could, we'll have to wait and see.  One last note of caution is what was the base week that from which they saw a doubling?  Sales tend to fall off the week(s) before a price cut so it would be less impressive if that is the base.  Or is it the average from the previous month or quarter or this time last year?  Again and again we'll see in time.

considering PS3 sales went up 202% from June, I don't see the problem.

Did they release statements saying that or did you just pull that one out of your ass?

P.S. Welcome to the forums ;)

just wow, im very excited for 360, besides rrodd issues, theres alot of motive to buy the console atm

 Legend, lets just say his post doesn't smell very good and leave it at that. 

Well for sales to actually double and be recorded like this through NPD, the sales will have to remain at double every day for the entire month of recording otherwise it will not be recorded as double.

Let's say there are 30 days in the recording period. EVERY days sales are 50 so that would mean that over the full 30 days their should be 1500 sold.

However this is how it would be (Remeber, every day is supposed to be 50 sales)...

Day 1 - 100 sales
Day 2 - 100 sales
Day 3 - 100 sales
Day 4 - 100 sales
Day 5 - 100 sales
Day 6 - 100 sales
Day 7 - 100 sales (Report that sales have doubled)
Day 8 - 100 sales
Day 9 - 100 sales
Day 10 - 95 sales
" " "
" " "
Day 20 - 80 sales
" " "
Day 25 - 70 sales
" " "
Day 30 - 68 sales

Total sales: 2668 sales (Total doubled would be 3000)

So by this it would increase from 150,000 NPD to 266,800 NPD - Not exactly double but a much better increase in sales.

 It's particularly better at using a rootkit to infect your PC and kicking the crap out of the buyer with brutal DRM restrictions. Heard any horror stories of the two installation limit yet?

 Bioshock's PC release is one of those fiascos which actually encourage consumers to pirate the software rather than pay for it.

 I don't really have the hardware to run either version, but I'd definately recommend buying the X360 version before shelling out for a program which you'll never be able to use again if you reformat your hard drive twice. Unless you buy the game, then download a cracked version, I suppose.

@Famousringo: That doesn't make any sense. Unless you are pirating, you can only play BioShock on one console at a time.

@Topic: Gamestop would, Wal-Mart wouldn't see that much of an increase though. Joe Walmartian probably couldn't tell you the price of the xbox 360 in the first place.