Well I got the numbers from Global chartz and substracted.

PS3 Global 1st Jan 2011: 46,261,280
PS3 Global 3rd Dec 2011: 57,519,528

360 Global 1st Jan 2011: 50,311,223
360 Global 3rd Dec 2011: 60,612,738

So I think that's right.

LMAO, why didn't I think to do that?  If that was your method, then you are indeed correct.

This will be close, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if 360 pulled some record numbers in America to steal it on the final week before Christmas. Exciting to watch regardless.

PS3 is still heavily undertracked in the U.S.A./Americas and the 360 looks spot on. So until you don't update these numbers PS3 has more than 100k lead. I can only comment of U.S.A. and Japan though (Hardware) I don't have any official numbers outside of these two territories.

800k in 3 weeks just doesn't seem very likely. That's an average of over 266k consoles per week and that last week won't have that big of a gap, in fact the PS3 may win that last week of December.

 I wasn't so crazy ;]]

so confused with all the different numbers going around :(

@Selnor the number for 360 on the homepage is indeed 61.5m. Funnily enough when i opened it on Chrome i get 57.9. Chrome FTL, use Firefox

Did you even read my post? I didn't say it would do 2 million, I said 1.6-1.9 million. There's plenty of historical sales curves to suggest somewhere in that range (2009 and 2010 absolute MoM increase. 2008, 2009 and 2010 % MoM increase, 2011 YOY increase). If you think it's going to go from being 70% up in November to less than 30% up in December you'll likely be mistaken. 360 on the other hand has always suffered from mediocre increases from November to December. Even the Black Friday numbers point in that direction. 360 sales for the week outside of BF were only 160k even with $100 GC promotions the entire week and a few continuing deals into Saturday. My prediction isn't optimistic, it's realistic. You expressed a similar sentiment about my last prediction:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4340880

And you conveniently ignored the PSP and PS2 comparisons I made, both of which will be over their own target by even more than a million. Everyone is entitled to their opinion especially if it's well researched, so drop the condescending attitude.

1.9? That's higher than any X360 NPD in history, despite Nov 11 PS3 being 470k lower than Nov 10 X360. You really do come out with some laughable crap postoffice

You dont think there is any chance that the 70% was driven by a special BF only weekend bundle that was sold for $50 less than the current price of the PS3? That couldnt have caused the PS3 to jump 70% could it?  Yes every console had special deals, but only the PS3 and the Wii (Blue Wii) had something that would be available after the weekend was over.