The download numbers always include movies, tv shows, game demos, themes, gamer pics, etc.  These are not just games sales.

Live is a huge success, and the 360 had an amazing month. But realistically, everyone is a sinking ship in comparison to Nintendo's sales.....:)

lol ~ thread title

if PS3 is a sinking ship the 360 is a flooded one.....

You're not a sinking ship if you are profitable and expanding market share. Miscrosoft is doing the latter, we'll soon see about the former.

I know. It shows that people are using the services at a very high level. Which shows digital distribution is very much here and now.

Neither Microsoft or Nintendo are sinking. On the other hand Sony is indeed sinking. This is not new it is an established fact. Sony has lost market share, mind share, profitability, and if that is not sinking I do not know what is sinking. Once again the binary thinking rises to the top in these forums.

You can be sinking, and yet still be afloat. There is a middling ground where a ship is sinking, and yet has not sunk beneath the waves. I would say in the latter part of last year the Sony bilge pump started to suffer some problems. Before that Sony was starting to right the ship, and get the boat higher above the water line. Now however due to exchange rates, and a tighter economy the trend has reversed itself again.

I think the hyperbole has gotten a little too eccentric lately. There is too much of the overreacting, and too much protectionism going about. Sony is slipping backwards, and its very likely that the generation is lost to them. Rooting for Sony is fine and well, but falling back on idiotic hyperbole doesn't help the situation. All it accomplishes is to come off as desperate. When I read these things all I can think is that the poster has run out of good arguments.

"Sinking ship"? So, the PS3 is like a hunter-killer submarine, eh? That's a cool analogy... lets go with it.

360 -- bristling cruiser, PS3 -- hunter-killer sub... Wii... entire freaking squadron of jets with air-to-surface missiles?

Does anybody actually know what a sinking ship is? I guess no. lol

 I'd hazard a guess that it could be a company that is losing money at a high rate and the ways to turn it round are very few. Ways that seem to lead to even more losses. Ways that do not gurantee recovery in a very harsh climate? As some famous guy who i forget once said "If it were easy to make money we would all be rich". :)

Either that or a ship that has a hole in it.....

sinking ship my ass!