wow i not been around for ages so not seen the numbers. Have to say 360 has done very well and could just nick it. But either way technically it will be a draw.
Which is pretty amazing when you consider the 360 has not had a proper price cut for three years or so.

It makes you wonder how next year will go as PS3 has had a couple of price cuts to sustain its numbers. It is around £170 now here in UK. Where as MS have yet to actually do anything with the 360 other then the whole Kinect thing. If they cut and went under £99 they would destroy PS3 numbers. Question is though are MS now more concerned with posting more profits? Either way these numbers make you wonder if they will announce the new console next year at all. They don't need to. But as a gamer i hope both Sony and MS announce their new consoles. This gen has got a bit boring now tbh.

Is the year of the gamer, since we have so many great games to play. Especially if you own all 3 systems like myself.

Surprisingly, the 3DS did very well at the end of the year. Just need more JRPG and some new Nintendo games. Where is Kid Icarus?

Wow it is really close the Xbox 360 might actually outsell the Ps3 that is amazing. Considering how little exclusives it has and how many exclusives the PS3 has and how the PS3 had a price cut which people seem to forget. Given all of that it's doing amazing.

Did I say X360 was going somewhere? or that it wouldn't continue to sell great?   Cause I don't believe i did. You said if X360 released the same amount of exclusives it would be a completely different story?  I gave you last year as an example and it wasn't a complete different story.  PS3 won that year as well, so your point is moot...

How i am i biased because i have a different defintion for what is "the year of ps3"? I am sorry but many people said this would be the year of the ps3 because it was going to surpass the 360 and all the games would be critically acclaimed. Neither happend. The only reason why people are calling me basied for saying this is because it causing butthurt, cause no one expected the 360 to sell like it did. 

Anyways lets just leave it as that, i think i just derailed this thread.

Well i wasnt on this site a year ago so i dont know if anyone here did back then , but lots of people from gametrailers, gamespot, and ign did.
Rememeber reading a comment on gametrailers that got 200 thumbs up listing all the ps3 exclsuives that were suppose to be AAA. Many comments how killzone 3 was going to kill Halo Reach. And also lots about the gap closing permentaly, plus i rememeber when the gap was below 3 million lots of people said it was only a matter of time. If i only i could rememeber the thread i would show you.

Can we just leave it now i dont want to get banned.

Lol, nm. It's pointless to discuss things with certain types of people.

These forums are no different, trust me. I don't post much but I've been here for 4 years and things you read from fanboys is comedy gold. Now I can't stop laughing at this belief that MS has a budget of 1B for advertizing... or that the ads alone on the Xbox dashboard make enough revenue to operate Xbox Live... the funniest ones are that Sony started all this motion tracking with the PS Eye of the PS2... stop fighting man, it's pointless.

People are really over-simplifying this issue down to who spent most on marketing etc. Products sell for a wide range of reasons, some are to do with marketing, yes, but a producer's relationship with distributors is also key. This determines how much shelf space is given to a certain console and its games, what the positioning of this shelf space is in the store, how much that item is pushed by promotional deals in store, and so on so forth. Microsoft clearly has done well in this regard this Holiday, in addition to some good U.S.-centric advertising.

At the end of the day, selling a product because of marketing, distributor relationships, or simply good content does not legitimise of illegitimise success in the market place. There is no such thing. There are only sales and lack of sales.

Claiming Microsoft only have gained success this Holiday because of their marketing prowess is applying the same kind of logic as the fools who said Wii was only successful because it was "a fad". There real question is why was the Wii "a fad" four years and why is the Xbox 360 "a fad" this Christmas? Through the hard-work and ingenuity of the people working in those companies to sell entertainment. Your normative assertions about what the legitimate means for achieving commercial success in the video games industry are nuts. There are only sales and a lack of sales. Nothing more.

It seems like every female I know wants the Kinnect for the "dancing game."