Can the 360 and PS3 surpass 40 and 30 million units, before Jan 1st 2010?

[nordlead]

probably not. If you look at the following graph ending Dec 27th, 08

http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=------&cons2=PS3&reg2=All&cons3=X360&reg3=All&start=39516&end=39810&weekly=1

you can see that the hardware sits at ~27m for X360 and ~19.2m for PS3. Considering the yearly total (below) the X360 would need an additional 2m sold YoY, and the PS3 would need an aditional 0.5m YoY.

Currently, the X360 is doing better than last year. However, I don't think the X360 will do an additional 2m extra, so I feel fairly confident in saying it won't.

The PS3 is doing slightly worse (200k worse), so it just needs to pick up ~700k units. This could go either way, but I'm leaning towards just shy (talking 100k's) as it did very poorly over the christmas period.

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 05th Jan 2008 to 27th Dec 2008:

Console	PS3	X360
Total	10,359,672	11,104,995