Wow, I was in the middle of writing a serious response to your post when you wrote this, thinking you might be worth having a discussion with....

Apparantly not. 

PS3 may be edging XBox 360 in past 14 weeks by an extra 40 000 consoles sold each week. However software sales are well and truly in XBox 360 favour outselling the PS3 by 2 to 1. PS3 are being bought as Blu-Ray players. The best titles are yet to come for PS3. A lot more quality games are out for XBox 360 at the moment and XBox 360 has a better online service.

 Only in US, EU and JP the PS3 is beating the 360 soo yea.

Hah! I believe the guy that starts with s was more accurate than you. The 360 isn't crappy but it's becoming a crappy choice compared to 360 and it's performing like crap in comparison despite all of these advantages you're touting.

Actually the Xbox 360 recently sorted out it's supply issues and reclaimed the lead in the USA.  In Japan Sony is only 8-10k ahead this week, and the Wii is about 50k ahead of both consoles. 

 Actuality, the attach rate of software per console is higher across the board for the PS3, so it's not being bought strictly as a media player.

2-1 sales in the US when your console is close to 3-1 in volume is not a good thing :p 

You consider resoundingly outperforming the original Xbox and selling more year over year to be crap? 

Oh well, at least you've acknowledged the advantages I was 'touting!' ;) 

Microsoft are past their prime. Sony are about to enter theirs.

Sony will probably surpass Microsoft. Neither will catch Nintendo.

Blu-Ray beating HD-DVD is a bigger deal than most people think.

*sigh* PS3s are being bought as game and blu-ray players. You say 2 to 1 on software. If you look at the multiplatform games it's nowhere near 2 to 1, and the PS3 has a better attach ratio. That indicates that as the install base creeps closer the games will sell the same amount or more. Blu-ray is an added feature that also promotes the sale of movies and makes the PS3 a better deal, as it has been since launch but that's an old topic. The 360 has 3 things that are better concerning the online service: in-game messaging, achievements, and movie downloads. The first 2 are confirmed this summer for PS3 and the third doesn't matter much since they are just rentals and not everyone even has a HD to download them to. Sony could add that feature as well. Finally: LIVE COSTS $50 A YEAR. Home will be free.

Auron's comments I agree were very trollish.  His statement was more of a personal attack than anything, imo.

As for SlorgNet, some of your comments were equally as outlandish as his.

I just reread your post (I merely skimmed it earlier), and I noticed you said that MS could drop the price by $150 without breaking a sweat. That is possible, if they didn't care about ever making a profit on the 360 again.  The chances of it happening are slim to none. $50-100 maybe, but not $150 full stop.

However, I agree with some of Slorg's points, though not necessarily his conclusions.  Particularly his point about MS being unable to compete on games.  This is something that I have been saying since the beginning, and combined with brand loyalty this was my reasoning behind the ps3 eventually passing up the 360, and it was something I was saying even during the ps3's low points last Summer.

With most third party games going multiplat, it's up to 1st and 2nd parties to give each console the edge, and this is an area in which Sony excels.  The fact that, of the two, the ps3 is the only one with any major third party exclusives left (MGS4, FFXIII, Tekken 6) has it's affects as well.  The ps3 will eventually have a good edge over the 360 in games, imo.