I dont' see the PS3 overtaking the 360 this year, it will be close though...The 360 has some great games coming as well, and as you can see, its still selling very well

I think itll be close though... Depends on 2 things:

How well MGS4/Home do this year
How bad RROD does this year

I know quiet a few people who are afraid of purchasing a 360 because of RROD (I know, covered under warranty, but some people just dont want to wait without a console)

and I know quiet a few people who are wanting to play MGS4

Should be interesting

Yes, I have factored those things in. Individual games do not move large amounts of hardware, no release of a game this gen has had a sustained elevating effect for a system. Halo 3 was the closest thing to one and it only lasted a few weeks. Blu-ray has already won the format war, there was a spike when it was announced that HD-dvd was dead and  then it went down though slightly higher, but it's not making it grow by any significant portion since then. Blu-ray adoption is going to be far slower than DVD adoption. The biggest sustaining increases come from price cuts, and Sony pretty much crushed any hope of that happening this year.

When MGS4 releases PS3 numbers may go up by 10-20% for a week or two and return to normal. When LBP releases it probably isnt' going to increase it at all, it's not a system seller. Resistance 2 is going to sell to Resistance 1 fans, not move hardware. Very few games move hardware, and when they do it's for a couple of weeks.

What we see now is how it will be for a good while.

 Why don't we have that on these boards anyways? I have always wondered that.

WHERE ARE MY MOD POINTS!!! lol 

 Actually, I think Resistance 2 will move hardware because it's a big improvement over the first (expecially the online) Thus, peoplewho didn't care about the first on might care about 60 player online. I don;t know how much HW it will move, probably not too much, but in any case, it will move FAR more HW than Gears 2 will move. 

it's kind of irrelevant whether Resistance 2 can move more than Gears 2, both will move very little hardware assuming there is even a noticeable increase.

The fact is the vast vast majority of games don't move hardware, or move very minimal hardware. It's just the internet crowd that labels every good looking game as a system seller.

one game doesnt move hardware, a huge library of games do, hints, ps2.

To answer the thread title: "Is this year, they year of PS3 domination?"

Well, the answer is a resounding no. Depending how you define "domination", the PS3 will never "dominate" the industry.

If you are talking about the 360 vrs PS3 - I think people have this all wrong.

I see Sony's lineup this year actually starting to look a little weak - relative to the other consoles anyway. I guess it depends what games you are into, but much of this is due to Killzone shifting to '09.

MS will easily win the US this year - easily. There will be no PS3 price cuts, there will be 360 price cuts, new models, and so on. If the new 360 controller works really well, it could have a great year.

The question in Japan is whether MGS will create a sustained boost to PS3 sales - the answer is definitely NO. MGS is not a type of game the Japanese love (shooter), and the majority of MGS fans are the ones who already own the console. So it *may* sell 1m units in software, but its unlikely to give any sustained hardware boost. Find out soon.

This leaves Europe. MS is definitely struggling there, but the big question is how the GTA exclusive content goes down - and it should go down pretty well. I think by the end of the year, MS will "narrow" its weekly sales loss to the PS3 - but its hard to know by how much.

Sony can expect to build a 50k/week (average) gap on the 360, which comes to about 2-3m units this year. This seems about right, and is also what most people are predicting.

IF Sony will make PS3 price by autum to 299$/euro, Then very possible,
though KZ2 moving to February 2009 doesn`t work good for 2008 domination,
BUT there is still hope for FFXIII coming this year.

Not really. I do believe that PS3 has a chance of passing the 360 in 2009 though. Sony has gotten Europe as of now, but I doubt they can get America.

Can someone fill me in on this 360 line-up that matches the PS3's?  All I see is Gears of War 2 and some racing game with a bird and a bear that looks like LBP.