I am talking worldwide sales. The 360 will maintain most of its worldwide sales gap over the PS3. American sales and Others sales will pick up and cancel out the PS3 weekly wins over the 360 in Japan region. Overall the 360 will win weekly sales over the PS3 in the late stages of 2010. Sales momentum will switch from PS3 to the 360 again.

PS3 gains in first 8 months of 2010 over the 360 will be cancelled out by the 360 gaining ground over the PS3 in the last 4 months of 2010. 2008 all over again. Reversal of 2009.

yeah maybe,but the reason for this is slashing of price or better quality software...?

cause i think if they dont slash their prices they wont.

Here.

take some VG$ :P

LOL, OP: I believe in your words, but the gap will reduce a little but not enough to PS3 surpass it.

Maybe 2011...

The lead will never disappear. MS won't allow it, they taken their promise seriously and seems to always be one step ahead of Sony in every department. The 360 is about to get its second wave of big games after 2007. Plus Natal and the fact that MS can cut the price if they want means that this lead will be intact until 2012. Just imagine NPD sales for the 360 during the release of Halo Reach and Natal.

Should be an interesting year no matter how it turns out :) MS is ramping up for the second part of the year. I wonder how (and when) Sony is going to defend its ground during those quarters.

if the lead is always less than a year of sales,while the xbox had a year advantage and always cheaper,i dont consider it an accomplishment.

imo

@ apollon: That's true for a specific viewpoint, but it will most definitely be countered with "it outsold it, doesn't matter what the time frame is" and "The PS3 was supposed to blow everything out of the water, the fact that it's trailing, says it all", so you might not want to go in that direction.

I think it'll be a tougher year for the PS3 in contrast to last year, but I wouldn't say that the 360 has the upper hand completely for the last part of '10.; at least not yet. I'm pretty sure Sony has a lot of games backed up to announce during e3 or some other event(s). I also think this is very much dependent on how well the motion controllers catch on with the people, which, in my opinion, can pretty much go either way.

Also, Gran Turismo 5 comes out during the fall; no way will PS3 sales in Europe fall below 360 sales during the latter half of this year.

The mid to end of this year holds major promise for X360, i can't wait for the release of Natal.

you seem to have left out agent and last guardian.