amirnetz on 18 January 2009
The 2:1 ratio was limited only to the Americas. Not WW.
Both NPD and VGC reported such sales ration for Nov and Dec. I don't expect that such a gap will be sustainable outside the holiday season as less casual buyers will purchase a machine and the casual buyers are the more sensitive ones. We should look at October 2008 for a good indicator for the 360:PS3 sales ratio.
My sense it that we'll see the 360 sells regularly about 60%-70% above the PS3 in the Americas (40k units gap), 40%-50% above the PS3 in "Others" (50K units gap) and about 10K units behind the PS3 in Japan. All together an 80K/week lead for the 360 on sales of about 230K/week.
Prediction made on 11/1/2008:
Q4 2008: 27M xbox LTD, 20M PS3 LTD . 2009 sales: 11M xbox, 9M PS3
