yes, battle is over, generation-ranking is uninteresting by now. sony and ms are on par since "ever" now, they could share the market the wii left over.

wii wins this generation, x360 and ps3 both second, fin.

Jack
 the ps3 can lower the price much more

Queen
both ps1 and ps2 sold well into the next gen

King
the second the next xbox is announced the 360 is history

Ace
The ps3 counts one year less in the market

I suppose THIS gen ended when the xbox run out of games ?!

What matters is that PS3 doesnt do it during the window of the current gen...when the spotlight is on them.

To do it afterwards means it couldnt pull off a victory when it mattered. Aka a hollow victory.

Id say personally at least 2014.

Ignorance at it's finest.

Once the next gen comes out, PS3 will still have a place as a blu-ray player, while the 360 will be useless. I can't see it happening before then.

for complete history of this though see this thread

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=5338&page=1

please be kind to it, dont want to see it get locked, i cast nerco on it every christmas season

If PS3 slim/cut comes this year and MS doesn't cut the Xbox's price, then 2013.

Otherwise 2014 or later probably.

Ok let's apply some math here:

Making a generous assumption that from next month on, the PS3 consistantly outsells the 360 by 50000 units per month *. This would yield 600000 gain yearly. Using VGchartz' totals of a current 2M units lead, it would take just over three years for the PS3 to outsell the 360 total. I have no idea what the future of xbox is, but my feeling is that even if the xbox were discontinued, I doubt the PS3 would be shifting 50000 total monthly units in late 2015.

*(note that this is much larger than the actual figure, which tends to favour xbox in the holidays)

a few months after AGENT releases.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't know why this should be generous. According to the weekly hardware sales, the PS3 outsells the 360 from about at least 20.000 units a WEEK, the latest figures say 35.000 units, tough. The number you were saying fairly represents the sales figure the PS3 can track down in just two weeks.

So, let's apply some correct math here again:

If the PS3 consistantly outsells the 360 by at least 35.000 units per week, it would make 140.000 units per month, which makes 1.68m per year. Taking notice of a "not so bad" software lineup the PS3's future still holds and the arrival of a super-slim model, it could be very realistic the PS3 catches this 1.9m gap in a very year.

Nonetheless: in the end I really don't care that much about who "wins" this generation in terms of sales. What counts is software to me as a gamer. I don't want to downgrade the discussion about hardware sales by saying that, but then again, according to sales figures every week, the PS3 already outsells the 360 for quite some time now. And it had to having reduced the gap from about 6m when the PS3 got launched to now 2m. Lately, one day ago, a guy here at my work just sold his 360 to get a PS3. He's not that big huge gaming nerd, just a console gamer, who finds the PS3 a sweeter package of hardware.