There's not an 80k difference...there's a 42k difference. Remember that this week's European numbers are already posted, but American and Japanese aren't. That increases the gap, artificially, by the 37k units that the PS3 sold in Europe this week. The sales difference over the last three weeks (ie, since the price drop) have been 18k in favour of the PS3 (HSG5 in Japan), 9k in favour of the Wii, and tied. Given that the PS3 is (slowly) declining in America as the price cut effect wears off and that the HSG boost in Japan is clearly unsustainable, this could happen sooner than you think.
It's anybody's guess what happens once the fall starts, but I think Nintendo's goal was to ship 22.5m units by March...that works out to (probably) 19.5m units by the year's end. History tells us that about 40% will be allocated to America, so that's 7.8m units shipped here, of which an extremely high percentage will (probably) sell. You're free to think what you want about PS3 sales in the fall, but that seems a bit high to me.
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