1. The 360 does have some system selling games coming down the pipeline. Fable 2 and Gears 2 will be blockbusters. Also, to say that Socom will be a blockbuster and that Resistance will sell more than Gears due to market saturation of shooters is stupifying.

2. The 360 also has a new 60 gb SKU releasing. Also, I would not be surprised if the cheap price of Banjo-Kazooe and the cheap Arcade SKU are bundled into an attractive package for children. If Wiis are in short supply, and I suspect they will be, a 360 bundled with Banjo-Kazooe selling for approximately $230 would be appealing to most parents. That last part is a hypothetical, but I would not be surprised to see it. 

3. I agree that Blu-Ray is a positive point for Sony, but I imagine almost every person who will purchase a Blu-Ray player without the intent of gaming will not purchase a PS3. I do not have numbers to bolster my assertion, but I have never met a person who bought a console solely as a DVD player. I highly doubt the general population will purchase a PS3 simply as a Bu-Ray player.

Hell no. X360 is clinging on for life and is in later stages of its life. Ps3 has a lot more life left in it and Ps3 has quite a few price cuts left.

Don't you still think the PS3's gonna beat the Wii, though?

I think the 360 has delivered on its promise of content, more than any other console, wouldn't you agree?

And what about the Wii? Don't you think that consoles sell better based on brand and generalized assumptions, rather than software and content?

1. I think you're underestimating SOCOM. It's always been a succesful franchise and next-gen franchise premiers always sell systems. It's just a question of how many. This is true of Fable II as well, however, unlike the PS3 with shooters, the 360 has already successfully penetrated the WRPG market last year with the release of Mass Effect. Fable II will no doubt sell many consoles, but I don't think it will move quite as many consoles as it would have if it was the first AAA WRPG to hit the system. Saying that Resistence 2 will sell more consoles (Not copies!) than Gears of War 2 is common sense. Just compare the two. 360 has sold 20 million systems as oppossed to PS3 at 15 million. Gears of War has sold 6 million copies as oppossed to Resistance at 3 million. 360 has already had 2 AAA exclusive shooters with Gears of War and Halo 3 and has successfully saturated the shooter market as oppossed to PS3 that has only had 1 AA exclusive shooter, that being Resistance. All of these clearly show that PS3 and Resistance 2 have much more room for growth through the release of a AAA shooter, if Resistance 2 turns out to be one.

2. The upcoming 80GB PS3 has been in much more demand than the upcoming 60GB 360, particularly in Europe. Ever since Sony discontinued the old 60GB PS3s, Europeans have been stuck with nothing but the 40GB SKU to hold all the large manditory installs and full game downloads that PS3 games offer. Very few 360 owners, from what I've seen have felt the need to complain about a lack of hard drive space compared to the hundreds of thousands of PS3 owners and potential buyers that are just craving for Sony to release an SKU with a bigger hard drive. I think you're 100% right about Banjo-Kazooie and personally, I think that B&K is probably the one upcoming 360 game that will sell the most systems. However, I still don't think it will sell as many consoles as LittleBigPlanet.

3. I have a feeling you'd be surprised.

not at all, the PS3 is still the best value. Game Console + Blu-ray player. Sony is showing that value means a lot this generation. Look at how well it is selling versus expectactions everyone had. Wasnt everyone  predicting that the PS3 would be past 10 million by now. lol

Sei, that's not common sense because it requires logic. People have to work a little to get to the same conclusion as you. I don't disagree, but a lot of people wouldn't get that without an explanation. They'd just see bigger numbers, say "ooh, shiney!" and subsequently get distracted. >_>

Good point. It's definitely selling better than I thought. I still have issues with Sony putting BR in the machine, as I don't think it was based around helping gamers. I feel it was a packin deal, with the idea of forcing Playstation fans to shell out for a BR player if they wanted a Playstation 3. I think it was arrogant, like when senators tack on a pay raise to a child protection bill. I think that with HD, DLC, and disc swaps, Blu-Ray is not needed for gaming, with the best example being PC gaming and how well it has performed with games like Crysis, that don't require the medium.

However, I do believe that as Blu-Ray won the format war thanks to this shady strategy, more and more people are viewing Blu-Ray as a value adding device to the console, that allows for the viewing of Blu-Ray movies, which threatens to become the next mainstream format over the next several years.

It was a dangerous move. The complexity of the console, combined with the higher cost, refusal to pay for exclusives, low userbase, and slow sales led to early developers and consumers questioning the viability of the PS3. However the BR win was a boon for the console, and single handedly landed Sony in second place this gen, imo.

However, the effects of these early mistakes will stick with the brand till the end of this generation, on the gaming front. The 360 is now getting equal or better 3rd party support, since MS has no qualms about paying for exclusivity, or DLC. With its head start, the 360 looks like it could manage to keep up with Sony throughout this entire generation, on the software front, and I would be shocked if the PS3 ever won the "gamerankings" comparison against the 360, soundly. The PS2, by comparison, was a dominant software machine, with tons of fantastic, niche and mainstream exclusive software that put its competitors to shame. While the 360 will end up an inferior multimedia device, it appears as if it will stand toe to toe with the PS3, as a videogame console, till the end of this gen.

It will also be difficult for Sony to catch up to the 360 in software sales, and attach rate.

Sony will almost certainly win second place this generation, however the real winners of this generation are the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. Both struggling for credibility, and with questionable returns, last generation, they managed to form very strong competition for the market leader this gen, and indeed topple it. It's hard to put Sony as a far ahead leader on any front this generation, and next time around, when all consoles start with equal footing, the Xbox and Wii brands will be much stronger than they were at the start of this generation(this time, perhaps, without the Red Ring of Death stunting the Xbox's longterm aspirations), while the Playstation brand will be much weaker(coming off the PS3, and not the PS2). This doesn't have ill tidings for Sony, unless they repeat the same mistakes they did this gen, which are price, 3rd party support, launch window, and software perception....but I've rambled enough.

Nope, as the 360 arcade model is gimped.

if MS sell 360 in $1 i will say yes. because i think i will buy hundred of them and give to my family and friends