The early games on the 360 were more or less slightly enhanced versions of late 6th generation games plus a few exclusives of its own. But it has improved significantly since its slow start. 27 million 360s have been sold since the launch of the PS3 back in November 2006. Selling only 5.5 million units in its first year. 3 years later.
The 360 has now sold almost 33 million units worldwide.

lol numonex again, stating facts that everybody already knows. I love this guy.

Actaully if 360 and PS3 were released at the same time, 360 would have still sold more than PS3, it was priced much cheaper and had XBL. I remember the PS3 controller didn't have rumble during launch due to dualshock patent lawsuit and they forced some "bullcrap" blu-ray disc drive that no one wanted (at the time), there were also less ps3 launch titles than 360 and PSN was still an unfinished website. 360 also had that crazy ass launch party out in the desert.

Of course nobody knew back then how much Sony would price PS3 nor how much later they would bring it to market.

Did MS want to get their machine to market before Sony at all costs, particularly in US? There is your answer.

@CGI

my thought's exactly I think it de-values the Game market.

for Me that is Exclusive's are what i buy a game system for in the first place, now not to say I don't like Multi-platform releases,

for One I own quite a few of them, but for me yes it's great that many more people can play the game, but on the same token it also means less of a reason to own a system, if the majority of the game's that you are interested in are also on another platform.

say:

PC

another game system, or even a handheld

Multiplatform development in general limits a game's potential. Smart from a business perspective, but it screws gamers over.

Yes it was rushed. Which was why it had the rrod and sold more units worldwide than the playstation 3.

See, maybe it's just because I come from PC background to consoles, but I just don't get all the exclusive love/hate.  On PC there was no such thing as an exclusive, just maybe HW requirements (I suppose in a weird way you could look at IW not supporting Wii in the same way, but I digress) and I don't see how multi 'screws' gamers over.

I just don't know why people pine for exclusives - to me it's like someone wishing that DVDs only played on Panasonic players, not Samsung.  The 360 and the PS3 are simply a bunch of electronic components that, thank goodness, are pretty similar so games can be played pretty much the same on each, making them more of a commodity (and therefore under pressure to be cheaper).

Decry multiplats all you want but they are the most commercially successful avenue going for developers.

Well, I just think it's better to announce for two platforms from the start rather than do it halfway through development when the point is to take advantage of the strengths of a certain console. FFXIII, for example, had some compromises due to the multiplat move.

http://xbox360.qj.net/Contrary-to-what-Square-Enix-would-have-us-believe-FFXIII-PS3-IS-compromised/pg/49/aid/134299