Not sure what else could be said here that hasn't already except for the fact that, by the time this is all said and done? It probably won't matter anyways.
Sony is finally making some cash per console and they're not about to rock that boat when they're turning a profit. Price drops just don't seem like they're going to be in the foreseeable future. In turn, Microsoft won't feel threatened and they'll keep the prices as they are, at least until they decide how to fiddle with their Kinect balacing act. So, no price drops there for sales rates.
Games have tended to sell consoles, but these days? Halo: Reach and GT5, I don't think either one is going to have a tonne of effect on console sales because, frankly, those who want them have probably already got a PS3 and 360. I mean, they've both been eagerly anticipated for quite some time and, as has already been shown, people had plenty of consoles already for Halo 3 and GT5: Prologue, so it would make sense to think that there will be no spike for either one. Kinect and Move, maybe so, not sure, but those, too, seem like something that will be for the masses who have already purchased. So, I just can't reasonably claim there will be a true spike on any of those either.
By the end of this year or beginning of next, the 360's Slim numbers will start to peeter off and the two will be fighting neck and neck once again. And, as kowenicki has already posted some great statistics, I will refrain from doing the same. All in all? I think that there is a potential for the PS3 to outsell the 360...but it'll take so long that it won't matter anymore. Both companies will have already achieved what they set out to do with their consoles.
Now, if I were to claim what actually came out of this generation except numbers? Nintendo proved they have aces up their sleeves in the market, Microsoft proved that they can create a fun and marketable console and Sony managed to introduce the Blu-Ray to the gaming market, learning what they need to make a console even better next time around. Oh, and a lot of pretty happy gamers.
