I was actually leaning toward getting a PS3 due to BC way back in 2005. However, when the 360 launched, and the PS3 was delayed, I sat on the fence. I wasn't thinking about buying a 360 at launch - I just waited until I saw games I wanted. I finally started seeing them in the wild in March, and I was crazy about COD2. I had a couple games and decided in April to buy it.

When the PS3 was getting closer to launch, and I heard about the pricing ($499 and $599), I was immediately turned off. However, I did plan to buy one at launch and resell it. I thought about it and voted against it. Within two weeks after launch, I saw them in Wal-Marts. A friend of mine passed up an offer of $1,500 for his 60gb PS3 because he wanted more loot. Just weeks later, he was kicking himself for not selling it. A month after launch, he sold it for what he paid for it. He got pwn3d.

Sony's main problem in the U.S. is price. Some folks don't care and will pay $400 plus on a system, but most folks won't. They are perfectly content with playing old skool consoles. It makes them happy - and most folks aren't very interested in getting HD because it's way too expensive.

Most Americans will pick up a PS3 when it hits $200, may $300, but more than that ... I dunno.

I think thats another part of their plan though Madskillz, as long as they still have something in America that sells massive ammounts of hardware and software (PS2), they can have something to cussion the blow their taking on the PS3, when they can get the components down to a good cost for the PS3 they'll probably make a much bigger push on the American economy. But I'm no business major :P it only seems to make sense to me lol.

It's actually pretty logic if your a hardcore gamer you should choose the xbox360 because it has a lot more good games and is less expensive then the PS3. In almost every genres the 360 has a better game then the PS3. I questioning more EU choosing the PS3 over the 360 anyway.

 The DRE I was talking about is where every game comes up as DRE no matter how much you clean the PS1 or PS2 the DRE won't go away, but Sony only fixed the bug with the systems they brought out later, they never fixed the old systems that had it.

Well you still pay to play online (60 dollars a year) which sucks ass for me because I don't play online very often.

You don't get any real exclusive features that you could over the PS3

No pre-packaged High Def disk player (ala blu-ray)

No bells and whistles that the PS3 offers like Standard Wi-fi, hard drive, HDMI 1.3, blue tooth headset compatibility, remote play, internet browser, etc etc.

The choice of games is purely opinionated, but the 360 currently has the "higher rated" library, if that's what you go by. The 360's lineup doesn't currently interest me so thats kind of a negligible point.

So if you were going by a "games only" standpoint, sure you "could" say the 360 is more diverse, but if your looking for ANYTHING else, not so much. Considering the only model that really compares to the PS3 is the Elite, and even that doesn't have half the features of a PS3, yet has a higher price tag. 

And not to beat a dead horse, but the PS3 is still much more reliable than the 360 :/ 

You forgot the best part:

Sony bought Columbia Pictures in 1989. Also known as 7 years before the first Playstation launched.

Haha rocket, so true...that makes it even funnier!

Well for me the most important it's the games because most peoples eventually buy console to play games. For that I think not only the 360 has more game but they're also better. Looking by genre I would say that ps3 has better action games then 360 if we consider FPS as another genre but other then that 360 has better fighting games, rpg & jrpg , racing is pretty close but still 360 has more choices. But the 2 most important genres in US FPS and Sports games are really dominated by the 360.

@Rocket & WEW

Yes, I know Sony bought them out in the 1980s. For people back then, it raised alot of fear about Japanese companies taking over America. And yes, the PS1 and PS2 did become the dominant console in America, but not with some resistance by the press, people, and media.

It does have alot to do with the history of why Americans are generally more forgiving toward MS and less forgiving toward Sony. In Europe / Japan, it's the opposite situation.

Outside the US, Sony products (laptops, etc.) are more popular.