I have no clue what you are smoking. People expected it to fail because of Blu-ray and high price. It didn't.

hey look, threads still open, and posts have past the upteen post...so where's my $100 VG$?

They do compete fully. For a game system to be very succesfull it needs to capture the casual market like PS1 and 2 did. There are only so many "hardcore" gamers.

Besides that, developers have limited budget, so all systems compete for 3rd party games. 

Actually one of the mods made a rule that you can't say for X fans only. Everyone has to be included =P

Anyway, I see this as a small achievement and certainly not as 'no turning back'. We all knew that PS3>X360 in Japan, actually I'm surprised that its only just caught up - Europe used to be Sonys stronghold.

 I wouldn't say that, if there was no Wii I don't think the PS3 would have sold that much faster. Probably this would mostly have benefitted PS2, GameCube and 360 core sales. There is near as good as no game overlap between PS3 and Wii, for the top 20 selling games for both platforms there is no overlap apart from Guitar Hero 3, but I think the Wii version competes more with the PS2 version. If you have a HDTV and a PS3, I think most would get the PS3 version for better audio and visuals.

IMO a future cheaper slimline PS3 will compete more for "casuals" when the PS2 is discontinued, probably in 2009.

well I figured it out. upteen isnt really a word, then you couple it with a dumber sounding word "downteen"(reading it as dwonteen is also funny as hell) then acting all giddy about it, probably caused some sort of influx in the subconscious of my cerebral cortex causing my forgotten childhood memories to resurface and tickle my funny bone, thus inducing some sort epiphany from the oh so random comment. Yes you can ignore this comment cause it also makes no sense.

It's funny that this thread is being posted in the week during which it may become clear that the WIi has definitely won Japan.

Even if we consider it PS3 vs 360 only, the PS3 still has a lot to prove - specifically, after the 360 gets price cuts. It's possible that it will win in Europe even after that happens, but it's not certain.

So to sum up:

North America: Wii will probably win, 360 will do very well with the hardcore, PS3 may keep lagging behind (although with respectable sales).

Europe: Wii will win, PS3 will do well, 360 may do well depending on what happens this year. All the three consoles have respectable sales.

Japan: The only console with healthy sales is the Wii, with the PS3 lagging behind with low attach rate and poor hardware sales. The 360 is just terrible here (as expected).

Remember when I created a thread defending that PS3's hardest fight was in Japan? It's becoming increasingly clear that I was right. The PS3 is just not gaining acceptance as a gaming machine in Japan, except for a very hardcore niche of players.

Im happy for ps3. Should start to even out the ports and whateva. but when ps3 starts(if) it starts winning in NA then its panic time for 360

 Less time then that, if you consider PS3 has not even been out in Europe a year yet.