Ha ha that is hilarious.

Also, once it drops to $99 and becomes even smaller (dont know how they will pull that off) I believe there will be a small surge in sales.

what is it at now about 120 million or so?

Current Ps2 sales are 113M as of the 9th of december.

Cool48

PS2 still has a lot of steam left but 20 million, I say it will retire at 130M no higher.

I was thinking it was closer to 120. 135 may be a stretch.

 Yet to see a reason to buy a next gen console for racin, RPGs, actions games? Are you serious? Let me gues the only games that cut it for these genres are: Gran Turismo, FF, MGS? I was kind of thinking racing fans already had: Forza 2, PGR3,4, Dirt, Burnout: Revenge and a few other solid racers, for rpgs, you have Oblivion, Eternal Sonata, Mass Effect, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, and Action you have Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Gears of War, Assassin's Creed, and Crackdown. So don't pretend the 360 only has FPS titles.

http://www.el33tonline.com/main/show_news/3545
http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/071106ae.html

Both of these say 120 million reached around october....not that i am doubting vgchartz of course

While the PS3 may be selling slightly better than the 360 in it's first year, what's more telling and important, is that it's failed to gain any ground on the 360 at all. It's still 7m behind!
The fact that 360 is maintaining it's lead won't be lost on western developers. It has a larger base, and seemingly, always will. Japanese developers will more likely develop for the Wii, as it's clearly winning there (and everywhere) and a lot cheaper to develop Japanese centric games for.
While I'm happy that the PS3 will hit 8m, that's pretty irrelevant in the bigger picture.

It definitely is too little too late for Sony in a way cause Microsoft got what they wanted. They wanted more mindshare on Xbox and less on Playstation. 7 years ago, Xbox was nothing, no fans, no games, just a spec in Sony's eyes. Now its a freakin mountain they have to climb over.

 Halo, KOTOR, FABLE say hello.

And its not too little too late by any means, on the horizon the PS3 has its best software ahead of it as far as speculation on proven names goes.....cant say teh same about the 360. Just this xmas with th ePS3 eeking to almost neck and neck WW, the PS3 has yet to blow its load or climax with GT, FF, God of War, Killzone (regardless it will sell well and hype) Home etc. Granted if the PS3 cant gain 2-3 million on the 360 by this time next year id be willing to say that it probably will never overtake the 360, but as of now, there is much room for sony to grow, imo.

@Gamerace:

ALL consoles doing it second year better then first, it`s normal.
That`s why PS3 wasn`t able to catch x360 in ps3 first year, but will be able to catch up in 2nd ps3 year.

Hardware Shipments:
PSone:
Sony Mar-1996 - 4.26 mln.
Sony Mar-1997 - 13.50 mln.
Sony Mar-1998 - 32.82 mln. -> around 30 mln.
Sony Mar-1999 - 54.42 mln.

PS2:
Sony Mar-2001 - 10.61 mln.
Sony Mar-2002 - 28.68 mln. -> around 30 mln.
Sony Mar-2003 - 51.20 mln.

PS3:
Sony Mar-2008 - i expect 10,57 mln.
Sony Mar-2009 - i expect 25,32 mln. -> around 30 mln.

X360:
Microsoft Mar-2007 - 10.94 mln.
Microsoft Mar-2008 - i expect 18,23 mln. -> NOWHERE NEAR CLOSE TO 30 mln.

To be a succesfull console, console have to sell around 20 mln. on it`s second/third year.
x360 FAILED to do that in it`s sceond year.
PS3 still has GOOD chances to do that.