its third already lol .. its will never catch the 360 this year but maybe next year cuz some good games are coming for ps3

Unfortunately, unique/great games did not fare well this fall.  Yes they were somewhat overshadowed, but they still underperformed.  I think it is a bit too late for games to strongly push that many units.  The gap can only be bridged (IMO only) by a strong price cut plan for the PS3 and first introduction of a slim version.

If Microsoft did nothing at all next year, I think its pretty likely at this point Sony will remain in third.

lol, if it wasn't for backward compatibility and the fact that I like to occasionally rent a blu-ray and play it on my DLP projector (it's friggen sweet), I'd put my PS3 up for sale since I don't really play it as a games machine.  That brings to mind another reason why the PS3 may fare poorly this year given the economic meltdown:

People love to watch movies -- buy, rent, etc.  Blu-ray disks are expensive!  I'm not willing to spend 25 to 30 bucks for a new release.  That's just too damn much.  People may be looking at the cost of the media and deciding that blu-ray isn't something they want this year since the media is so darn expensive.  That erases the one big advantage the PS3 has over the 360... If you drop that out of the equation AND compare the actual current price, the PS3 could be in for a real beatdown this holiday.

Common buddy, stop crying. It is just hardware sales - no big deal.

I suspect the black friday deals will be huge for the 360 this year. When people are feeling poorer but still need to buy things they become a lot more price concious and they look for savings/special pricing wherever they can.

But for Blu Ray - Yeah people tend to switch to the "inferior" substitute when their purchasing power diminishes. I can see Blu Ray as one of the luxuries which gets cut back on when DVDs are "perfectly good" alternatives. Heck even people with players may end up buying fewer Blu Ray movies.

Another thing - Netflix may have even more drawcards for the 360, if people want to save money - spending $12 a month on Gold and Netflix is cheaper than buying a Blu Ray movie every couple of months and yields a far higher quantity of entertainment than a single disk short or long term.

It seems like 360 is still badly undertracked in other. As Microsoft had just announce that they sold 3:1 of its rival ps3.
360 numbers should be 363,282 in other.

....Did they outsell 3:1 in UK or in all of Europe? Check your sources. VGchartz has 360 outselling PS3 by around 3:1 in UK.

This is the leatest new announced by MS, its now comfirmed the whole EU and not only UK alone.

You need to check your sources before posting.

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=50298

This thread (which links to an article) should be referring to the data VGchartz just posted, or probably last week's data. VGchartz has 360 at around 3:1 over PS3 in the UK for both weeks, just as the interview points out. It's ok, noobs make mistakes all the time, especially when rejecting VGchartz data.

"For us in EMEA [Europe, the Middle East and Africa], there's a been a considerable uptick in what we're spending in terms of media, almost effectively to launch levels again. We’ve seen this huge uptick in our velocity, which has taken us considerably ahead, certainly of PlayStation 3, right across the region. In some geographies, the U.K. specifically, we were almost three times Sony’s volume last week, for instance"

-Chris Lewis of Microsoft