Here is the reasoning:

PS3 is only at 30.4 Million, since 8% of PS3's fail (so 33 million * .92 = 30.36) and they only have a 1 year warranty, most of them died out of warranty and have thus been replaced by the owner.

360 is actually at around 38.5 million, because they instituted the 3 year warrany in 2006 (less than the original one year warranty, so all of them would be coevered until 2009) and only a small amount could have died outside of the warranty that just started expiring. So we can assume that MS replaced the vast majority of them under the warranty, and DID NOT count those as sales.

So the difference in installed base is actually 8.2 million in favor of the 360, give or take, could be as low as 7.5 or as high as 9 million. Reason? Do I need to give one, can't I just assume it's correct?

I hope I get 17 pages of responses about this, since it seems that posting flawed logic and rampant assumptions will lead to vehement defense of your nonsense by otherwise sensible people.

Or converesely, this thread could be largely ignored because it's "going the wrong way".

Was it really necessary to start a new thread to "bring us this enlightened information"?

I'd say ban for uncreative trolling/joke.

Ha ha ha ha ha, that's the biggest flame bait I've ever read!

I take off my hat to you sir.

Oh and just so you know My PS3 broke and Sony repaired it for free outside of warranty so I don't count twice! Learn how to haggle people.

If that's true then the PS3 is a SW beast :P

This thread is almost as awesome as the "PSN is free this weekend" thread from a while back

For me it was, I wanted to see for myself exactly how far down the road of "Anything posted that is remotely positive to the PS3 will get defended to the hilt, and the opposite ignored or scorned" VGChartz has gone. Since the release of the slim and the subsequent increase in PS3 sales, the pervasive undercurrent of unfriendliness of anything outside of the accepted view of "PS3 is teh greatest!" has gotten very uncomfortable. I think we've hit a breakpoint with the thread that this is in response to, and it may be a total loss.

Do you want to get flamed to death? XD

Touche, sir.

On the other hand, the way the PS3 had to take abuse every way you looked when it was down and almost out before that was also very annoying. If Natal takes off like a jet fighter this year and the 360 is getting more steam than the PS3, we're probably back to those days and it's not as if those were any better.