@Xyrex,
Actually the PS3 has already started making up ground, but if you look strictly at the monthly numbers you won't see it yet since the PS3 "price cut" was in July and July numbers are not finished yet.
If you look at the current situation according to the VGChartz numbers you have the PS3 at 241,805 units so far this month, and the 360 at 169,934 during the same period. This month is actually all but guaranteed to be the weakest month the 360 has ever had by a margin of around 60k units over the entire month representing an aproximate 21% decrease over the previous worst month for the console (Which was also a 4 week period).
Conversely the PS3 is on track to have one of its better 4 week monthly periods. By no means is the PS3 going to be in uncharted numbers this month but it is on the uptrend. For those wondering, the week ending April 7th through the week ending April 28th is the best "normal" 4 week monthly period for the PS3 thus far with 335k units. I say normal because I hesitate to count Jan and March as "normal" sales trends since Jan has after X-mas numbers and March has EU launch numbers...and march is a 5 week period anyways.
But yeah, expect the PS3 to make up ground this month, I would predict it to make up about 100k units. Which I am sure most are thinking "Well that will be like 5 years for it to catch up to the 360 at this rate!". And I would respond to those people by saying "Well its actually more like 5.1 years!". Seriously though, this could be the start of a large PS3 uptrend or this could be a bump in the 360's road. It is all way to early to tell IMHO and I would probably want to see two consecutive months or at least a full 6 weeks of data indicating the trend before I would personally call it a trend.
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