When you factor in the 'time on the market', the 360 is already in 3rd.  PS3 and 360 are neck and neck, with a paltry less than 2 million separating them...and sony did it with one less year on the market.  A time to sale ratio, Sony is ahead, and it will continue to sell long into the Ps4's life cycle, which will easily place it at the 90 million + mark by the time its all said and done, comfortably in second place for the generation.  Hell, if the PS3 holds on as long as the PS2 did, I could see it matching the PS1 with 102 million. 

do I EXPECT that to happen?  Hell no, but it could given Sony's strategy, and its late life legs have shown that the system has a lot left in it, where the Xbox has what left?  Halo 4 and Gears of War Judgement?  both huge games, for sure, but nothing compared to the half dozen or more great games thePS3 has on the horizon in the next few years.  Playstation All-Stars, Sly Cooper 4, The Last guardian, Beyond Two Souls, God of War Ascension, The LAst of Us, and even stuff like Final Fantasy vsXIII, assuming that is still coming and is still exclusive.  

So yeah, it's not over till it's over.  Funny how things changed.  Man, I can't WAIT to laugh at all the sniveling Xbots who declared the PS3 a monumental failure when the generation fully ends and the 360 ends up in last.  

Funny thing is, I love my Xbox 360, I really do...but I hate its fans.  

keep telling yourself that

Hey, if you guys get to twist things around to make Sony look like the devil, glorifying a paltry 2 million difference in global sales, I'll gladly pick and chose what I believe as well.  Puts us on the same level. 

Either way, PS3 WILL end up higher than the 360 by the time it's all said and done.  Even if not by the time the next gen starts, we all know Sony will continue to sell the damn things years into the PS4's lifecycle.  

So yeah, it's not over till it's over.  Funny how things changed.  Man, I can't WAIT to laugh at all the sniveling Xbots who declared the PS3 a monumental failure when the generation fully ends and the 360 ends up in last.  

Funny thing is, I love my Xbox 360, I really do...but I hate its fans.  

You're a writer for this site and you post garbage like that?  Anyone wondering why there aren't many Xbox fans on this site, well there's a good example as to why.

I think that sometimes we miss the point about why PS2 still sells today when XBox and especially Gamecube no longer need to.  Nintendo as a company FULLY embraced backwards compatibility for their consumer.  The original Wii's (not the new bundles that came out a couple of years ago) play every single game from the Gamecube library.  I'm currently playing Tales of Symphonia for Gamecube on my Wii right now.  XBox 360 doesn't have as complete a backwards compatibility, but they thought it good enough that they didn't need to continue marketing their previous generation's system.  My brother's PS3 crashes when trying to play one of the Final Fantasy games he had for PS2, so yeah, Sony still markets the PS2 for gamers who want to access their old library of games.  When the Wii U releases, it will also have FULL backwards compatibility.  Therefore, Nintendo will not need to market the original Wii system well into the next generation.  People should consider that when referring to the Wii as a dead system, when Nintendo doesn't need to sell last generation's system while their next gen system will support that library all ready.  I think that people who hail the continued PS2 sales in this generation as miraculous are bypassing the fact that Sony made sure of that by not included full backwards compatibility into their new system.  If today, in 2012, while having neither Sony console to start with, you had a choice of purchasing a system that played PS2 and PS3 games, or having to choose one or the other, what would you choose?  I mean, let's not kid ourselves here.  If PS3 was 100% backwards compatible, do you really think there would be any need for someone to buy/own a PS2 anymore?  When I moved last year, I didn't need to hook my Gamecube back up, because my Wii plays all of those games.  I couldn't say the same about my PS2 if I had purchased a PS3.  What the real question should be, is do you think that continued software support for PS2 as late into this generation as it was, and incomplete backwards compatibility with the PS3 caused Sony to fall into last place this generation?