Ask your self why is the 360 deader than elvis in japan despite the money hatting of high profile JRPGS such as SO4 and cheaper price than ps3 for long time?

PS3 has lots of wonderful games coming out.

But North America is Call of duty/Halo land...then Gears of War land. Don't get all up and arms on me cause I can't stand COD and am so so on Gears...im just stating the buying trends on the continent.

@disolitude

good answer, it makes a lot of sence

it'll have the upper hand in USA at the end of this year. You'd better believe it.

I think it pretty much has to be that the games are more appealing to North Americans. I have to say they are to me (with a huge caveat of GT5, come on release date!). And a smattering of it came out first and cheaper, and peoples friends have them.

Also, Xbox 360 has a stronger retail presence in NA.

I was in Europe on vacation 3 weeks ago. Germany, Hungary, Serbia...and it was the oposite

In all 3 countries PS3 has much more of a retail presence. I couldn't even find anything xbox in Serbia while they had PS3 games for sale, and Germany had the console and a handful of games in a few stores while PS3 was available everywhere. Hungary had one store that had 20-30 Ps3 and wii games while they only had the Tekken 6 fight stick for the 360...and thats it. Namco surely overshipped that game...lol

North America isn't as bad and you can find most PS3 stuff in Best buys, Wal Mart etc...but 360 sections are always bigger than PS3s.

what do you mean? are you saying it will permanently sell more that 360 weekly or that the 8million+ gap will close?

friends...people are more likely to buy the system that their friends own because word-of-mouth endorsements are the most power form of advertising a company can ever hope for. success re-enforces more success. the ps3 is doing pretty well for a third place console but it won't ever be able to really take over the 360's presence in america any more then the 360 can do it in japan.

at least in my area (chicago) the 360 section tends to be around twice as big as the ps3 at best buy but the other way around at target.  i'm sure target doesn't sell nearly as many video games but i always thought of it as odd.