Epic's first paddle into the market of single player first-person shooters has paid off in spectacular fashion as Gears of War has shifted over a million copies in the two weeks since its November 7 launch.

Gears of War was hyped up to the high heavens, but surpassing Halo on the Xbox Live stakes and shifting so many copies is a spectacular result. By my reckoning there's one copy of GoW for every seven or so Xbox 360's worldwide. Not bad at all.

I'm considering actually buying myself an Xbox 360 come February or so. If Microsoft can offer a price cut by then and games like GoW aren't up in the "€25 short of €100" price band it might just be a mature enough system to consider.

There, see, Microsoft is turning me around. Slowly. That's a good sign for the next-gen, eh?