Does anyone think PS3 can realistically get to second place?

[MikeB]

I realistically can't see this not happening and probably even during Sony's current fiscal year.

Taking equal timeframes (which is still unfair to the PS3 as the XBox 360 had not 1 but 2 extra holiday seasons in Europe and other PAL regions) the PS3 outsold the XBox 360 by 5.5 million already! Last quarter the gap was only 4.47 million, this with PS3 shortages (and 360 again overshipped) and meanwhile this gap has only been shrinking.

This while Microsoft did everything in their might to sell better, quickly killing the original XBox, mass misinformation and propaganda spreading with regard to its rivals, in 2008 the 360 was priced in Europe as low as 119 Euro including taxes for the holidays, they bought many Japanese exclusives (for a system almost nobody cares about) and they nearly killed their PC gaming division by making their popular PC franchices including Halo XBox exclusive.

The last straw seems to be Natal and they hyped this up by faking Milo presentations. And it is probably going to underliver compared to what was promised.