I guessed the 360 would be at about 20-30k more. But a good week for them worldwide with the Japan boost. If this happens for a few weeks, it'll be interesting to see the Sony response. The war is just beginning, even after all this time. Now through the holidays will be quite interesting.

So from end of December to this week, if my questionable math is correct and I had vgchartz graph them right, 360 has pretty much pulled within 100k for the year in Americas.

PS3: 2.35 million sold since 12/27/07
360: 2.26 million sold since 12/27/07

Interesting. I would've guessed that PS3 would have outsold the 360 by more after we saw the MGS4 bump. Curious.

As direct as your opinion is,,, I agree with you.

I do believe the 360 will be ahead in America for some time to come, but 2 weeks from now the numbers will be back in Sony's favor WW, or at least very close to it.

I agree also that the PS3 dropped because they are still in somewhat of the same market as the 360, (although I believe those lines are becoming more defined between the 2)

If the PS3 re-captures the North America weekly sales on a consistant basis before 09, then this price drop served very little purpose for Microsoft. We will see.

It's going to be a rough couple of weeks for Sony, October can't come soon enough.

Typical Nintendo mind games. Microsoft or Sony cut a price or release a big game. Nintendo just sends more stock. Nintendo knew Microsoft was cutting the price of the 360, so they sent a few more Wii's in the direction of North America. Thus making it easier to find one, easier to buy one, and easier to stay way ahead of the rest.

Wow. I'm really disappointed with the results of the 360's price drop in America. Last week 360 sales were quite a bit lower than expected when it didn't even manage to come over 100,000. Many people, myself included, summed this up due to the fact that last week only included about two days worth of price cut sales, even if they were the two biggest days. Come this week, 360 sales didn't even manage to exceed last week's disappointing numbers with 7 full days of price cut sales.

It seems pretty clear that the 360's price cut in America isn't going to have the lasting increase in that many expected it too and I fully expect that 360 sales in America next week will take a big hit bringing it down to around 75,000.

Don't expect a big drop in 360 sales any time soon as the holiday season begins console sales will start their typical increase. New realases will drive console sales for both the 360 and the Ps3 and with the current price difference you can expect the 360 to likely sell at a 2:1 to 1.5:1 ratio over the PS3.

I believe Microsoft's NA price-cut timing was nearly perfect.  As you said, this is the beginning of the Christmas season, and having a console at $200 can't do anything but help sway some percentage of parents looking to buy a "high-end" present.

All three consoles are likely to do well over the next 3 months, but the 360 price cut will likely keep MS and PS3 neck and neck.

I'm really interested in the trend line over the next 30 days... that may provide a good indication to how the consoles are going to do over the entire season.

HUM

very interesting :

- xbox360 selling a little less than last year when the 50$ price drop was made (!!!). It was not able to pass 100k week2 this year. Overall, it is really unimpressive.

- there were some adjustements, but it still seems that PS3 is suffering form the price drop since the sales has decreased in 2 weeks (I also doubt that there are supply issue). It is maybe the first time tis gen that 1 console suffers when the other one receives a price drop. Pretty interesting.
It means people buying the xbox360 (the boost) is maybe more du to sony fans switching to xbox360 than wii fans (that still dont care about arcade).

- waiting for next week.

hah.. thats what it deserves...

it thinks it can just beat the wii in japan by a few hundred and walk away freely?

More seriously though, good sales for both the wii and the 360, ps3 taking a bit of a dip, but nothing too serious