Regarding 'microsoft having a rough start too' i'm sorry but having the ONLY available next gen console on the market for an entire year, then having your competitor release a console with an astronomical pricetag is far from 'rough' - for quite a while the price of the PlayStation 3 was almost double that of the Xbox 360, which already had a years worth of games available, compared to a small handful for the PlayStation 3, as well as launching at a lower pricetag, the economy was in a much healthier state back then too.

As someone pointed out though, people like to cherry pick facts to support their argument.

Yet the argument about Microsoft having a head start is one of the biggest cherry picking arguments of them all. People really don't put anything into perspective at all. They just care about where their brand is on some chart on a month to month basis and disregard the actual true facts about the situation.

It is all about market share and making money. You have Sony who was the established brand and Microsoft who was not the established brand. Microsoft in one generation was able to not only cut into Sonys market share by a large margin, but they almost tripled their sales from the previous generation.

So we can sit here and give Sony the tugg job because they finally in the last year of their console took over Microsoft and gave the fanboys someting to talk about, but when you look at the big picture which company actually moved forward and which company went backwards?

BTW when we get the holiday numbers in January I would bet my house that Microsoft goes back to being up by 2 million and it wouldn't surprise me if it was even more than that.

to give this more standing the ps2 has sold near 50 million since the ps3 launch.  The ps3 should be able to ship about 5 million more this quarter which would mean it only needs to do 50% of what ps2 did in its last 6 years of life. I say its very possible.