During the holiday sales season, the 360 was basically blowing the PS3 out of the water by two times or more sales each week in Others than the PS3 was receiving in a territory which it had dominated for most of 2008.  During the last two weeks, however, the trend of 360 domination over the PS3 in Others is showing signs of decreasing.  Last week the number had dropped to only a little over 130,000 more 360 units sold in Others than the number of PS3s sold, and the most recent sales figures posted today shows the 360's weekly advantage has decreased once again to a only a bit over 70,000 lead for the 360 during the week over the PS3 in the Others region.

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As the number of consoles sold decreases, the gap decreases as well. It's called proportion.

Percentage wise, I'm sure it isn't that much below. Hardware sales are just a lot lower and make it less noticable.

My comment: are you seriously surprised by this?

      The 360 was doing phenomenal in Others and its numbers seem to be falling much quicker than the PS3's, so I guess I'm a bit surprised by that. It would be surprising to me if the 360 was selling 200,000 + more units than the PS3 in mid December in Others and then if by January 15th, 2009, the PS3 was once again selling better than the 360 in Others as it did for much of 2008 especially if there wasn't a PS3 price cut to account for it. 

@BTFeather55:

During Christmas week, gadget A sales 1000 copies and gadget B sells 500 copies.

In the next week, sales drop by half... gadget A now sells 500, and B sells 250.

The gap was 500 in Christmas week and only 250 in the next. Market share is the same.

lulz the market share between the 2 consoles last week was:
XBOX360 - 60,8%
PS3 - 39,2%

this week it's:
XBOX360 - 61,8%
PS3 - 38,2%
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       Yeah, but if I remember right the ratios were a bit different than that.  The 360 was selling over 400,000 units while the PS3 was selling 200,000 in Others but now the PS3 is still selling 115,000 while the 360 is selling 185,000.  So, that is a drop of 215,000 360s in comparison to a drop of only 85,000 PS3s which makes me think the PS3 is keeping more of ithe same level of popularity that it had in the holiday season than is the 360.

December 20, 2008 (360) 343,877 (PS3) 224,797 = 1.53:1 ratio

January 3, 2009 (360) 185,309 (PS3) 114,467 = 1.62:1 ratio

The ratio actually grew over some past weeks. I have faith you are capable of understanding this.