PS3 sells more in Americas than Xbox does in EMEAA!  as far as Japan goes... im not gonna say anything.

You're a very interesting person... how do you know PS3 wont? you can see the future? u have some sort of magic? dont be silly.

No, he just hopes it won't.  Of course, I think many, including myself, believe Sony will be selling the PS3 for $199 at some point in 2012.  Probably announced at Gamescom like the last 2 price cuts were.  And the holiday bundle this year was at $199, so its not much of a stretch for them to sell a PS3 by itself for $199.  As for Move, there's no way Sony won't drop the price of it in '12.  I would imagine at least a drop of $10-$15 for each controller, if not more.

I hate to burst your bubble but year for year the PS3 outsold the 360 when looking at the sales for their respsective first years. They've had more growth every year for that matter. Subtract that extra year Microsoft had an Sony would be ahead by around 10 million consoles. Sony is only making up for the lost time....not the timing of sales.

Well it has a chance of being number 1 in 2011. I think you may be right. But I disagree on one point: I think Sony will drop PS3 by another $50 next year, i.e. it will have a $199 sku in 2012.

But that will probably be irrelevant as 360 eats up the USA. I get the impression that early Wii adopters are going to the 360 in their droves in the USA and Kinect is the reason why.

They had more growth after the 2nd year, not the first 2 years. Whatever the case, the PS3 had to play catch this whole generation, which isn't a good thing. It's not going to catch the Wii unless it stays on the market as long as the PS2 does. If the NextBox launches in 2012 all that growth won't even matter. The Next-Gen will have started and Sony will probably be playing catch up once again. Pretty much the same thing that happened with the Genesis and SNES.

Your prediction flies in the face of reason for a couple major reasons. Games, exclusive or otherwise, do not have any significant impact upon hardware sales in the long run and even if they did, the 360's lineup for 2012 is not exactly going to eclipse that of the PS3. Price has a far greater impact upon hardware sales and the PS3, having yet to reach the mass-adoption price of $200, has by far the most to gain from further price cuts. That being said, the 360 has a chance at selling the most hardware between the three current generation consoles for 2012 but it would require no permanent price cut for the PS3 and at least one significant issue for the PS3 a la the PSN outage.

I doubt they will do that immediately. Maybe at the end of the year, but I'm pretty sure Microsoft will drop all their SKU $50 by early Spring. They should have done this 2 days ago. Not sure what the hell they are thinking,. They rely to much on retailers and 3rd Party to bail them out instead od doing the work themselves.

I don't really agree with his exclusives point but I do think the PS3 is getting another $50 price cut next year.

It didn't start outselling it until after the price cuts and the PS3 Slim was released. Until that happened the XBox 360 has a decent lead. I'm talking about American game consoles. Of course Europe and Japan love IPod and IPhones. lol!! They hate our cars though. Japan & China don't even want us shipping them into their country. Name an American created game console that have sold well in Japan & Europe besides the Xbox 360?