GTA IV is way more important between Playstation gamers that between Xbox ones .That game will probably move more PS3 than X360 .

You do know the 3rd best selling game of the year for 2006 in North America was none other than a Mario game, right? New Super Mario Brothers has sold 2.4m in its first 9 months. Halo 1 sold 1.5m in its first 9 months.

Strom, I think John meant that Mario and Samsh Bros. will sell more Wii's than Halo and GTA will sell 360's, in that case then yeah Mario and Smash Bros. beats Halo and GTA. Another thing this is Halo's third game this is Mario ??(I don't know) point being a series that has that many games with the same person still sell 5.8 million is really good but who knows how Master Cheif will sell in 20 years? It'll be a while before we find out.

For Super Mario Sunshine being as crappy as it was, I'm impressed that it sold 5.8 million compared to Halo's 6.43 million. That's not that big of a difference, and Super Mario Galaxy looks to be much better than Sunshine. I'd bet that out of the 8 million or whatever Wii owners there will be at its release, nearly all of them are going to get this game.

DAmnit, why do I feel like the only one in the world who loved Mario Sunshine?!?!?

Why? If people are sitting on the fence than this may very well put them over.

Slight math err. 250-> 200 is a 20% drop, but 400 -> 300 is not a 33% drop, it's a 25% drop I think that Xbox 360 is moving fine. I think that the 360 is hitting all of MS target for this generation, which is to beat PS3. I think that with PS3 getting fewer and fewer exclusives (as PS3 exclusives are porting to 360, making them non-exclusives) and MS winning the online war, MS is very happy in it's current position. Nintendo was an x-factor in this gen, so MS is surprised as everyone else was in the strong performance of the Wii. But ultimately, the target is PS3 and it's doing well. There might be a price drop, but it might be at end of year to fight the x-mas wars, otherwise there is no real incentives to drop prices on a well selling console with the best library (so far) in the current gen

And why was this? 1) Halo was practically a launch title for the Box, so thus there was a small base. 2) No one had seen anything like Halo but once it caught on it started to be a console seller 3) How much did Halo 2 sell? 3.5 million in the first month it was out in the US. Lastly other titles would have easily outsold Mario if they were released earlier. Guitar Hero II, FFXII, Gears of War. And New Super Mario Bros was on DS. Selling on a handheld is slightly different than selling on a console. Game price is different and the support base is different.

What are you talking about? It's entirely well documented that once Halo caught on it was selling the Xbox. In fact Halo was the reason Xbox was able to actually outsell PS2 a few months in the US. I talked to people who only had an Xbox for that game and only that game. I can't remember how many times I heard that in college, "I got my xbox for Halo" Halo is just that, a system seller. GTA sold like 15 million copies and a lot of PS2s. In ability to SELL systems Halo and GTA own just about every other franchise right now. It's just not a mario world anymore anymore. And I was talking about the US market, which is much more inclined to FPS and GTA style games.

Don't worry, I had fun with the game. It's not a crappy game...just not that great is all. Also short.