If the 360 launched globally in 2006? Then that's a possibility.

If the PS3 launched globally in 2006? Hell no... in fact, it would have sold the exact same amount because units would have had to have been diverted from the US and Japan to make a 2006 launch possible for Europe and other regions.

Without a doubt. Launching first was a key move by Microsoft.

Yeah with ease
Even with the high price Tag - But well 1 year late,far to expensive and having a bad start cause developers are unloyal,getting hacked by some Sony haters and still finishing 2nd is a nice demonstration how far superior Sony is.
Just don't make the same mistakes with the next console and we are back were the world should be.

I've made this point 1,000 times and people just don't like to acknowledge it.  If MS makes any one of those mistakes they're out of the equation entirely (like Xbox made 2 of them).  I mean by the time this gen is done (aka when all 3 cease production on current gen) Sony could end up being the first company to lead the industry with the most expensive console throughout the gen.

The Wii is waay ahead of the xbox 360 so i don't think so. The ps3 had bad launch games and a high price

Sony lost siginificant brand preference with the PS3. The PS4 can be a much better product than the PS3 ever was but it simply won't be able to count with "blind" adoption that the PS3 enjoyed. At the end of the day, the Playstation brand went from being the prefered gaming machine before the PS3 was even launched to having to prove themselves with the PS4 launch.

This is "the end of the world" from a marketing perspective, made worst by the fact that Sony themselves put them into this situation. Microsoft only capitalized on it.

but PS3 is doing very well now.  I don't think a 3rd place console has ever done so well this late in a gen.  I think people recognize that they have the best exclusives and free online makes up for initial cost eventually.  People don't realize how huge a $200 difference is.  It wasn't $50 like now, and PS3 launched against Wii which was under half as expensive and stole the launch thunder.  People like to point to Vita but home console is where Playstation is king and portables have never been their dominant market.  They may never regain the dominance they had during PS2 but they are still the most powerful name in home consoles.  Yes they're third this gen but they'll end up selling around 100m making every blunder possible.

Close but not enough I guess...

The PS3 has sold half of what the PS2 sold. No one in their right mind at the time(around PS3 launch) would tell you that the PS3 wasn't gonna lead next gen, it was just unthinkable that Sony would drop as much as they did.

Exclusives are good only during a consoles initial years, as MS has proven. They look at Sony releasing exclusive after exclusive and yet failing to make a meaningful difference in sales compared to the X360. Microsoft must be asking, does Sony just not understand the market or what? In this day and age of CoD, exclusives take the back sit. Whoever can offer the best experience overall wins and while XBL is $50/y, people seem to have no problem paying up whereas how many times i hear people complaining about PS+ because they don't like the games and etc. IT'S "FREE" for FFS..

you been living under a rock or sumat? its those exclusives that closed the gap down from 10 million! if microsoft made some effort in that department maybe they'd be 20 million ahead now, instead a ps3 takeover is imminent. you quite obviously have no idea what your talking about.