Time for the rats to leave the sinking ship. lol

this thread is a total failure from the beginning:

1. x360 is selling better than last year (about 50% more each week)
2. x360 is selling a lot of software (again, more than last year)
3. almost all 3rd parties still go multiplatform: ps3+x360 OR x360 + PC
4. in multiplat games x360 is usually the leading developement platform.

to me this is not sinking.

32x and SegaCD... They were pretty famous.

The 32x sold 200,000 units and the Sega CD sold 6 million units.

 Bingo. There is no way developers will stop writing for the 360, and there is no way either the PS3 or the 360 will ever gain a large exclusive titles edge over the other. 3rd party developers will continue to make their games for both systems, as there are just too many users on both to ignore. Actually, it's Sony that should be breathing a sigh of relief, not Microsoft. If you make a game for the 360, it can be easily ported to the PC and vice versa. On top of that, Microsoft's development tools just obliterate Sony's, and if you were going to make a game for just one platform, you would choose the 360 in large part because of that reason (which is one reason you STILL see more planned upcoming games for 360 than PS3). Sony is very fortunate its fans believed it would duplicate the success of the PS2, because the developers would have abandoned it very quickly if that market was small enough to ignore. If this was the first generation for both Microsoft and Sony, Sony's system would be dead, and Microsoft's would be fine. Quite simply, the users would have waited to see if the PS3 made it before buying, and the developers wouldn't have bothered. It will be interesting to see how Sony does in future generations now that it has destroyed a good portion of its user loyalty.

PS3 is outselling the X360 on average 50k every week since December 2007. Console sales is the most important factor. Bigger install base, software sales would pick up over time.

The comparison between the Titantic and the 360 is apt. (albeit not for the reasons the OP gave).

The Titanic was poorly built (much like the 360), it had weak steel plates and rivets. It's disaster (much like the RROD) lead to increased future safety design and the refitting of many ships after it sunk.

Much like the manufacturing resdesigns of the 360, and the hard lessons Microsoft have no doubt learned this gen about console hardware and reliability.

The X360 was rushed onto the market just to get a year's lead on the PS3. X360 was poorly built similar to the Titanic. Consequently the X360 just like the Titanic is doomed. Iceberg alert. Too late RROD has destroyed the X360's reputation and people have jumped onto the more reliable Wii and PS3.

is it me or does the ps3 actually looks like the Titanic ?

ok...but why in world should a 3rd party dev exclude x360? are PS3 sales alone enough to justify such a chioce? why in the world a 3rd party dev that's developing a FPS should decide to cut out x360 after seeing (for example) COD4 sales?

again, you said 50k per week? even at this rate it would take almost 2 full years to close the gap...and by then x360 installed base could be 35-40M: isn't it enough to justify multiplat?

Sony failed to annihilate competition and probably we will be seeing multiplat games till the very end of this generation: that's the biggest diffence between the previous and the current generation of consoles.