Shane said:
If we're going based on trends, I have two that matter more. Sony has won the last two generations without breaking a sweat. Most major third party games have been and continue to be on PS2/3.

Sony really doesn't have much in the way of games in the US either, but the big stumbling block in Japan is that PS2 dominates the charts (DS notwithstanding), so developers just keep releasing games for that. As we go further in the year, we will start to see the fruit of development resources shifting away from the PS2.

With those figures I meant US alone. Globally, I'd expect Sony to hit shipments of 15 million by the end of the next fiscal year. 360 is a very attractive platform at the moment, as long as the key focus is US sales, which for most developers it probably is.

A lot of companies have charts comparing their product to the competition and it both plays up their strengths and showcases their competition's weaknesses.  Here's an example of what the chart would look like for Microsoft: 

                                   "Now who's playing with power?" 

                                     Xbox 360                                   Wii

                    Ram          512MB                                       88MB

                    CPU          3200Mhz PPC Triple-Core          729Mhz PPC

                    GPU          500Mhz 10MB eDRAM                243Mhz 3MB eDRAM*

High Def Capable        Yes                                             No

*Nintendo refuses to give out more information on it's GPU or to give any comparison benchmarks against the Xbox 360.  It's believed that their GPU is a generation or possibly two behind the Xbox 360's so the comparison stats for the GPU do not give an accurate representation of how much more powerful the Xbox 360's is compared to the Wii's.

A lot of companies have charts comparing their product to the competition and it both plays up their strengths and showcases their competition's weaknesses.  Here's an example of what the chart would look like for Microsoft: 

                                   "Now who's playing with power?" 

                                     Xbox 360                                   Wii

                    Ram          512MB                                       88MB

                    CPU          3200Mhz PPC Triple-Core          729Mhz PPC

                    GPU          500Mhz 10MB eDRAM                243Mhz 3MB eDRAM*

High Def Capable        Yes                                             No

*Nintendo refuses to give out more information on it's GPU or to give any comparison benchmarks against the Xbox 360.  It's believed that their GPU is a generation or possibly two behind the Xbox 360's so the comparison stats for the GPU do not give an accurate representation of how much more powerful the Xbox 360's is compared to the Wii's.

Really?  It works in other types of sales and has worked in the past for consoles (Nintendo actually used a chart during the snes/genesis days).  People who buy consoles aren't more stupid or any different than people who buy other types of things.  Look at computers, AMD had to adopt their processor rating system (2500+,3200+,etc) because the people who don't know what's under the hood used numbers in order to figure out roughly how powerful systems were to each other.

Umm I wasn't talking about Nintendo having charts I was talking about the competition.  Why would Nintendo have a chart that shows how weak their system is power-wise compared to the competition.  People who don't know what's under the hood do understand numbers and would know from reading that chart which system was a lot more powerful.  Microsoft or Sony could also show screenshot comparisons of multi-platform games (Call of Duty 3 looks shockingly horrible on the Wii compared to the Xbox 360/PS3) but of course they can't come out and do that because they would likely piss off 3rd parties who make multi-platform games.