Good analysis stickball. I wouldn't worry about the Halo 3 sales. It was released pretty early in the 360's life considering when Halo 2 was released for the Xbox and still sold almost as much week 1. Yeah, it's dropping fast but it's the kind of game that will never die. You also have to remember that the 360, unlike the Xbox, has a very diverse library of games and appeals to more than just the FPS and sports gamers. Obviously that's still the predominant group, but the games that don't fit into those categories are building up, and so are the gamers who play those games.

Great to see Orange Box do well! More people need to play these awesome Valve games. I hope it does great on the PS3 too.

W29 do you mean it's closing in on Pokemon in America or worldwide? It certainly will pass Pokemon in America (at least in the short term), but asking it to pass even Pokemon's current numbers (over 10 mil) worldwide is a lot.

Anyway, good to see the 360 retain very good software sales. Hopefully the Wii and PS3 pick up on the software sales side during the holidays.

This is one of my favorite regular threads on vgchartz, I look forward to it almost as much as the weekly American numbers.

Can you do more than just the top 10 for America (at least for the weekly sales and % drop, if the extra analysis would be too much work), like maybe a top 15? For example, this week that would encompass some interesting games like Gears of War, Guitar Hero II, BioShock and Rainbow Six: Vegas.

And where is the red/green colored text this time?

Great legs for Skate but terrible deception for PGR4... :(

Its a shame that PGR4 is doing so poorly. It really is one of the best racing games (and series) on the market and really it should be doing better.

Picko - maybe due to PGR3s poor sales could explain MS dropping Bizzare as a first party company.

Having said that, PGR4 had a great debut in the UK charts @ #1 for individual numbers, and beat Halo3's 3rd week. Therefore, sales in PAL territories should be good with Christmas coming oh-so soon.

Doing a top-15 won't be a problem.

Bizzare wasn't a first party company for microsoft. They are just the company Microsoft chose to develop it's PGR series. Bizzare already had Geometry wars coming out for Wii and DS and are prepping another game called The Club that is for Pc/ps3/360.

Very interesting data, the biggest surprise for me is the lackluster performance of PGR4 and the great sales of Orange box.

Great start for the Orange Box. I wonder how it'll be next week? (% drop).  I'm still surprised at how lackluster PGR4 is doing. It looked pretty decent from the trailers. I haven't had a chance to try the demo yet.

I'm looking forward to seeing how Beautiful Katamari will do on next weeks edition. The lower price should help sales right? I just got my copy today (JP release was on the 10/18 :( , but free Cell Phone strap FTW! :D ) 

I expect Orange Box to drop big next week. Halo will hold strong...

PGR4 hopefully, will increase sales a bit and constantly stick around... Right now it looks like Microsoft's move to drop Bizarre from PGR was a good one. But to be honest there are so many racing titles for 360 that I think the genre is flooded.

Skate is pretty much stuck to the wall in the mid-30's... Who would have thought it would go there so quickly and just stick around for week after week?

I think Ace of Combat 6 will do really well in Japan.