So this is falling perfectly in line with: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26221/Analyst_Core_Games_Best_Investment_For_
Publishers_As_Wii_Bubble_Deflates.php .

PS3 sales for the entire month of November 2008 : 378,000
PS3 sales for the Black Friday week alone in 2009 : 440,000

Black Friday week PS3 sales alone trumped all November 2008 PS3 sales by 16%.
For the whole of November, the PS3 could very well sell double PS3 November sales from last year.
Not bad going at all.

PS3 was actually able to make their brand look new. However they still have a long way to go.

Gotta love the bundle choices. Man, they were great games packed in. As opposed to the Xbox 360 6 title bundle for Best Buy. Did you see the craptacular titles they packed in? I am surprised that Monkey Butt 2 didn't make into the 360 bundle. If you open up that bundle under the Candles or the Tree this year and play those games, it will drive you away from buying more. What was Microsoft thinking? Clearly, not the same thing that Sony was. Sony does have respect for the consumer's taste for quality.

In case you missed it:
http://bfads.net/Microsoft-Xbox-360-Elite-Holiday-Bundle-w-6-Games-at-Best-Buy
An Elite system that includes the following games:
Lego Batman
Pure
Sonic the Hedgehog
Spiderman Web of Shadows
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2
Wall-E

Interesting: so the PS3 is at an "all time high" having sold 440k units in a week while the Wii, which is considered to have "stalled", sold more than 500k! Still a long way to go for Sony....

In the corporate world its not about making money. It's about doing better than before. It's about how you are doing compared to how you did.

You can be losing money hand over fist, but if you are losing less, that is an improvement, so you would be seen in a better light than a company that is making money, but not as much as before, and it's a disaster.

Once you've made a billion, making another billion isn't good enough :(.

sounds like a lot of new gamers are entering the market!