to put people minds at rest im gonna finally admit my evil doings! i have been buying million of extra ps3's off sony!  thats where all those extra ps3's are going. since 2008! i was walking to the store and kaz hirai came to me with this deal. i couldnt refuse! SONY ARE EVIL!  really they sold like 5 million ps3's in the past 2 years!! i have about 25 million up in my loft.

25 million ps3s wouldn't fit in a loft

I wouldn't say dominating, as the Wii is still beating pretty handlily. If you mean against the 360, it's winning outside of the U.K., but not by a huge margin. The marging with the PS3 and 360 in the U.S. is much larger. The only thing really keeping the PS3 in the game is Japan. If Japan was out of the equation the PS3 would be losing handily. If the U.S. had the same mindset for the PS3 as Japanese gamers have toward the XBox 360, this little sales war would be over right now.

He's right and there's another game console called the THE WII that's in the equation that gamers for some small reason seem to forget is beating the pants off that 2 HD consoles. LOL!! It's amazing how the fight for 2nd place starts so many threads. Did we have this many threads between the XBox and Gamecube last generation?

Those two consoles were not worthy of first place.  This is a different scenario.  The PS3 and 360 situation is just more interesting to most people here.

First of all these Sony shipment numbers are confusing me. I know at Gamestop we've actually been overstocked on them for a while so maybe Sony overshipped or something.

Also I don't see that happening, I fully expect a 360 price drop this year, plus with Kinect and Gears 3 I expect the 360 to outsell PS3 in 2011.

What's confusing they shipped that many, their shipped numbers always look high but they rarely are they can't always be over-shipping, since it's the retailers that order them 

I'm not neccessarily claiming that Sony has overshipped I'm just saying the numbers don't look right.  They must be selling more units in Europe than America's by a huge amount.

I've seen some of company numbers and the 360 absolutley slaughtered the PS3 company wide this holiday, it wasn't even close. We had consistant stock company wide on all PS3 models while we had huge shortages on 360 which probably also were part of the reason 360 shipments looked low, they couldn't meet demand. 

I'm not basing this off of fomulas or personal "well I went to my local wal-mart and it looked like this" stuff.  I've seen the numbers SOLD to consumer for a huge chunk of the company and something is off.  As I said I expect Europe must be the reason shipment numbers are so high for Sony.

You do realize the world is bigger the Europe and America right? Sony ships to like 150 countries, more then even nintendo, ps3 beats 360 pretty much everywhere but NA and UK so it's no real surprise it's numbers look high when you fail to account for that many countries 

If this happens, if that happens, if my balls where as big as watermelon, if Bush was never president.

IF IF IF IF IF!