What's with the talk of the XBox 360 "almost getting crushed by Sony"?

[Seihyouken]

Well, looking at the grand scheme of things, it isn't hard to see why someone would say that.

Looking at the recent adjustments made, between the weeks of February 28th and April 4th, 360 sold a grand total of 4,802 console above the PS3 worldwide. Taking into account that the 360 is at least half the price of the PS3 in every region (less than half in Europe) those are some pretty surprising numbers.

What is probably getting Sony fanboys excited about this is the fact that this is the 360's time to shine and really solidify their lead over PS3 for the rest of the generation. Since its price drop in September, 360 has been enjoying the highest price difference with the PS3 it will have all generation. Microsoft really needs to take advantage of this period since when the PS3 inevitably drops in price later this year, 360 will most likely never outsell the PS3 at the pace it has this last several months again, and possibly rarely ever again at all.

Pretty much the mentality of the PS3 fanboy seeing the recently adjusted numbers is: "If the 360 can only barely outsell the PS3 when it's at least half the price and has at least a $200 difference between it and the PS3, how is it going to hold up when the difference drops to $150 or possibly even $100 later this year and the years left to come this generation?"