actually, if we are talking about home consoles, EMEAA & Japan is about equal to America.

Total console sales 

EMEAA & Japan = 96.2

America = 91.3

With VGchartz being aproximate (around 10%)  it is actually a statisticall tie.  So basically, if Xbox continues to dominate in America, it will make it really hard for the ps3 to surpass it.  Not impossible, just hard.  

Right now, xbox isn't doing that well in EMEAA and Japan and PS3 isn't doing well in America.  With both markets being about equal... you see where I'm going?  Right now it is pretty balanced out.  Something drastic needs to happen to tip the scales, and not a price drop.  Those only give a temporary boost.  By drastic I mean like next gen system being released.  Kind of like the project cafe and obviously any next gen consoles from sony or MS.  

It will be interesting to see what kind of impact project cafe will have on these two consoles.  Historically, the last gen competing consoles get a bit of a boost when a new console comes out.  Usually because of the constrained stock and unavailability of the new product drives customers to the old one.  

You forget that since 2008, the 360 has ALWAYS had a cheaper SKU than the PS3.  And depsite that Basic and Pro SKU the PS3 has still been able to take back EMEAA and still stayed ahead in Japan.  Like I stated before, there's just more demad for the PS3, but price has always held it back.  It jumped a big hurdle when it lowered to $299 and will only continue to make up ground with further price cuts, regardless if MS cuts likewise. 

ROFLMAO!!!!!

See this is why Im so exited for ps3 to drop price, just imagine the looks on your face when ps3 sales explodes again! XD

Umm you might be right, but with a 1 year head start I would hope and pray that it can keep its lead. If you and I were to race around the world, yet you were given a ONE YEAR head start... I honestly hope you would win the race. Especially if it was a competetive race. If we ended up finishing at the same time or close to it, I would bet most would say you pretty much lost the race. Same goes for the 360 and it's full 1 year head start... It has barely managed to hold onto that lead, thus, some (if not most) would consider it not all that impressive. You mention America, even though some of the best and most intuitive games come from Japan. It has lead in American largely due to it's cheap price bundled with Kinect. 

I would argue against that point very strongly.  Japans game developers are in decline.  And it's cheap price bundled with Kinect is the same price as the ps3, so that is a weird argument.  

around half the posts on this topic are far more "misinformed"  than that one was. Yes the 360 has a sku cheaper than the cheapest ps3 sku. It also has skus equally expensive.

I never understood why in this site ps3 exclusive sequels are huge console movers, 360 sequels "do nothing" despite the fact that 360 hardware often gets more significant boosts weekly on the releases. 

Someone posted that the kinect is just a fad. It has sold to 1/5 of the xbox 360's userbase in one holiday season, with 2 notable titles, neither of which are anything extrordinary, at a price that when first reaveled caused most of the community to instantly write off as a failure that will sell next to nothing. For 2011 it has sold better than any hd game, including a few "huge" ps3 exclusives. Yes quite the failure fad.

In 4 months the ps3 has sold 3.2mil and is leading the 360 by 500k. Last year by 4/17/10 the ps3 had sold 3.7mil and was leading the xbox 360 by 1.2mil and the 360 nearly caught up for the year. The holidays of course might not pan out the same way, but strictly comparing to last year, the ps3 is having a bad year so far in 2011, while the 360 is having a better year than last year. 

i agree with gergroy

the only Japanese game i like is TEKKEN 3

"killed the ps3"? the ps3 isnt dead... lol