But whats going to have a bigger effect, a price cut for ps3 or 360?

Most likely PS3.

wow, how much systems do you think japan sells?  japan usually only moves about 20 to 25k on average each week as far as ps3's go, unless there is some big game release.  With the 360 pulling about 6k from there they usually are only up by about 19k from there.  I'd expect the margin to be more like 60 to 70k in 360 favor worldwide.  

Hey chief, the only joke is people who make posts like this without reading forums on the topic. 5.4m is accurate, Sony announces "shipped" numbers, whereas other company's published numbers are sales. So meanwhile, while the 360s is only finally able to keep a few on the shelf, Sony's numbers include the dozens of units sitting on shelves in every store, and those units in transit, etc...

But if you want to leave the site because you don't like to see objective numbers, then don't let the door hit you on the way out. Have fun reading articles on Sony Defense Force.

It depends on the size of the relative price cuts. A $50 cut on the PS3 and Xbox 360 for instance would mean a 16% cut for the PS3 and Xbox 360 250GB model and a 25% cut for the 4GB Xbox 360 so likely the Xbox 360 would increase more because its would have been the deeper cut, apples to apples. However if the Xbox 360 Arcade was decreased by say $30 or 15% then it becomes more difficult to say, though the PS3 would possibly benefit more from the same sized proportional cut applied to all the console SKUs.

White SKUs and Price War?

Thats a very impressive drop from 360. I was expecting closer to 30% and at least 25% so to only be 20% down is a great momentum.

Excellent hold for all other systems to. Coincidental that all systems are down 2% and 360 is down 2% x 10.

I'm very befuddled by 360 SW vs PS3 SW. That gap is as large or larger than the sort of gap we typically see even when PS3 HW is > 360HW for the week. But we see a game like Bioshock 2 reappear in the top 50, top 30 even, with a ~ doubling of weekly sales for 3 weeks in a row from what it sold the week before 360s launched. I know there are upgraders among those 360HW numbers, but that many?

LOL...this is looking interesting.

I always liked the long drops when i went on camping trips as a child. I was disapointed when they all started to flush...

As for software, well its really hard to say. I remember the PS3 slim didn't show much movement on software initially and people were using that as the basis for saying that PS3 owners were re-buying the systems en-masse.

P.S. The 2nd hand market might come into it as well. Whenever the new graphics cards come out the high end cards from the last generation tend to dip on the Steam surveys. However as time goes by they start to increase again. The assumption here is that the systems are sold/given away and it takes a few weeks before they get back into action.

Bioshock 2 is at clearance price here in the UK (£9.99)!