Lol, he states that the rest of the year meant nothing then says, "Sony has dominated this year exclusively and sales wise up until fall." He's arguing against himself it seems...

If you predict the ps3 to be up by 300k, that 300k lead came from your "nothing" portion of the year.

The 10th is in and it is at a 700k ps3 lead Although xbox has completely dominated ps3 the last month ps3 will win by a few hundred thousand.

Actually i'm pretty sure it's a 800k PS3 lead.

Walmart 12/18 - 12/24
360 4GB Kinect Bundles includes $100 gift card for $299

Best Buy 12/18 - 12/24
360 4GB Kinect Bundles includes $100 gift card for $299
PS3 320GB Uncharted Bundle $299.99 includes $50 gift card and Uncharted 1/2 Dual Pack

Target 12/18 - 12/24
360 4GB $199.99 includes $50 gift card
PS3 320GB Uncharted Bundles includes $10 gift card

Looks like MS is really going to put the final press on this week.

these are all instore deals right,above

man i wish they brought the giftcard deal over here

So below is the sales for the last huge week.  Surely some Thursday and Friday deals will be revealed later this week, but for now this is what we know.  With this I really think the 360 will have a shot of totally blowing away the PS3 this final week and gain enough momentum to catch up and pass if MS follow up with some other deals next week. Every single major retailer that sells consoles in the US is offering $100 deals on Xbox 360s.  In comparison only Target's $10 gift card and $50 gift card and uncharted dual pack deal are offered for the PS3 unless I missed something. 

Walmart
360 4GB Kinect Bundle includes $100 gift card

KMart
360 4GB Kinect Bundle includes $40 gift card through Tuesday
360 4GB Kinect Bundle includes $100 gift card starting Wednesday

Toys R Us
360 4GB Kinect Bundle includes $60 gift card

Target
360 4GB $199.99 includes $50 gift card
PS3 Uncharted 3 Bundles $299.99 includes $10 gift card
Wii NSMBWii $149.99 includes $20 gift card

Best Buy
360 4GB Kinect Bundle includes $100 gift card
PS3 320GB Uncharted Bundle includes $50 gift card and Uncharted 1/2 dual pack

Microsoft Store
360 250GB Kinect Bundle includes $100 gift card
360 4GB includes $75 gift card

If they did we would know. The sales advertisements for all week are already out.

I dont thin Sony can afford bundles like MS are doing...Sony went for the pricecut (which was needed imo) and Ms went for value added bundles. I gotta say MS went with the right decision, and id like to say Sony went with the wrong one but i dont think they had much of a choice, the PS3 is stil quite pricey outside of the US.

Well Sony has had the bundles as well. What MS did was go with more co-marketing deals with retailers.  Im sure MS said we sell X amount of 360s in your stores and you get a rebate or something like that. So the retailers are offering these big gift cards expecting people to use those gift cards on other merchandise that maybe they would have got elsewhere or skipped altogether.

At the end of the day that is going to cost MS, which is what my point is. I dont think Sony can afford to do those kinda deals at the moment (considering it just did a global price cut). Yes they have bundles, but lets face it, those bundles are standard bundles that gives a higher profitability on each console sold, rather than a genuinely good deal.

Im not saying Sony are ripping people off or that the bundles are bad, they just not as good as 360 bundles.

This trend seems to be world wide though. And id imagine its mostly to do with the base price of the ps3 which is stil quite high and yet stil is sold at a loss. Theres no leeway for generous bundles.