The figures were adjusted last week for all consoles later in the week.

Noo.... more.... so tired.... of seeing... PS3 beats Xbox360 for "x" weeks. Lets just all agree that the only way 360 is going to beat PS3 on a worldwide basis is if something MASSIVE comes out, or a price drop? k?

 Someone else will make a thread claiming the win for PS3 next week and the following week, etc.

 I'm fairly certain we won't see a ww win for the 360 ever again.

In 18 weeks the PS3 sold 721,767 more consoles than the XBox 360.  At this rate it will take 165 weeks to erase the remaining gap of 6.6 million consoles.  So the PS3 will still have a smaller installed base than the XBox 360 until June 2011.

This is Gamecube-come-from-behind-in-year-5 territory - not really a win for Sony at all.  These small weekly wins by the PS3 just aren't good enough to erase its late launch.

@Zassk, but with current momentum, a price drop, some familiar titles, and a couple of holiday seasons will consistently increase that gap per week. The 360 already has some of it's massive players on the field, is already cheaper, and it under-performed to the "considerably inferior" lineup the PS3 had over the holidays. America was the 360's haven, and now the PS3 is rapidly closing ground on it. Don't expect the sales gap to remain this steady :P

You haven't accounted for 

The PS3's exclusives

Home (it's effect is arguables)

Price Drop / New SKU

Holiday Season

Each one of these factors is enough for the PS3 to get whithin 2-3 million of the 360's install base by New Years.

In general I agree we probably don't need this kind of post every week, but then where would the site be without the weekly 'outsold again by x' post, the 'DS trounces the PSP' post, the '360 exclusives may be coming to PS3' post, its close relative 'the PS3 exclusives may be coming to 360' post and the straight out biased 'let me tell you why my favourite console is doing great' posts...

For those bored of these posts on 1st April I recommend watching the flying penguins on BBC... fly you little suckers, fly!

Don't forget that Microsoft still has a lot of cards it could play--as does Sony, but I'm just saying this battle ain't over by a long shot. GTA will be quite interesting.