Just wondering how long most of you think that the 360 will stay at the top of the sales chart?  I personally think it will ride it on over till black friday and then depending on what kind of deals we get possibly the rest of this year.  

I would imagine a few other things could through a Monkey Wrench into the works as well like:

Price drops for either the Wii or the PS3.

How well Kinect does.

How well Move does.

How well GT5 does.

Personally I think it will last until at least Thanksgiving.  And then after that things get a little murky.  I have a feeling that Kinect will do really well and Gt 5 will underperform.  And if this happens without any price cuts, MS will have smooth sailing until the new year.  

I also have a feeling Microsoft will have a pretty decent bundle for us this Holiday season.  And it will probably involve  Forza 3 and another top notch game, maybe even Reach.

don't you realize? The new 360 model made the 360 the must have console

Na, it was always the must have console for me. : - )

But it is a sexy beast, and if I weren't tapped out financially I would sell my old elite and buy a new one.  Hopefully I will get it early next year.

Uhhh when the holiday sales starts kicking in I think Wii will be on top again(AS ALWAYS) all the way till next year.

I'm thinking at least through the month of September

Piracy should help out the PS3 a bit (but will probably start eating into that system's software sales) so there might be a few weeks here and there where the PS3 is ahead but from here until at least the end of 2011 expect the 360 to be ahead the majority of the time.

If you're talking about specific regions I think the 360 will always be ahead in North America in monthly sales until the end of this generation. 

Europe is hard to call but I think that even if the PS3 starts outselling the 360 again in that region it'll never be by the numbers it once was.

Japan is the weak link.. If the 360 was as strong as the PS3 in that region I would have said that the 360 would outsell the PS3 for the rest of this console generation but it's the only thing that will keep the PS3 from falling further behind and might allow it to catch up slightly in the next 2 years.

At the beginning of this year I would have agreed with you without a doubt.  But now, the only thing that will help the Wii to regain the top spot is either a price drop, or a huge bundle.  Like it or not it seems that the Wii's popularity is starting to wayne somewhat.

Of course this is just my personal opinion, and I also believe that the PS3 will start outselling it (the Wii) soon as well, unless there is a price drop.

Sorry ping, I don't agree

according to my prediction ...

Till the end of the world!!!!

didnt the wii sales start picking up last week or this week? i think the 360 will hold out until maybe two weeks after reach.