It's just common sense that when a console gets a price drop, it gets a (temporary) boost in sales. This has happened with all consoles since as long as I can remember. It happened with the previous PS3 and 360 price drops, and in 2015 when the Wii gets a price drop, I'm sure it 's sales will get a boost:)

We all know that about 2 months ago, the 360 got a huge price drop to the sweet spot of $199. And of course like anyone with a brain could predict, it had a boost in sales, Duh. And for the last few weeks, we've seen it outsell the PS3 at a ratio of 2:1. So with a new price of $199(very attractive during a holiday and a recession!) vs. the competition's $399, it outsold the PS3, what a shocker!

Many 360 fans rejoiced and labeled the PS3 as doomed. The always unbiased media and financial "experts" began posting articles on the web declaring that Sony was in deep shit.

All this as though they actually believed that this 2:1 sales lead would continue on until the end of this generation?

Doesn't anyone learn anything from history? Price drops always cause temporary boosts in sales. Are gamers and the media so desperate to see the PS3 fail that they will take any data and blow it out of porportion?

Sorry to dissapoint, but last week's sales show what most of us figured would happen sooner or later, that the 360 would come back to earth. The PS3 sold 199k units and the 360 sold 254k(far shy of the nearly 400k it needed to maintain a 2:1 lead).

well i dont think anyone really belived that a 2.1 gap will remeain. i predict xbox may sell more this year, but going into further years depending on price ps3 will sell more lifetime.

imo next gen games will go like the wii, core gaming is low compared to wii style gaming.

Bam, I bolded a part that is 100% true. They will find ANYTHING against the PS3 and use it as an attack. The media always makes stuff WORSE then it really is.

The 2:1 ratio was limited only to the Americas. Not WW.

Both NPD and VGC reported such sales ration for Nov and Dec. I don't expect that such a gap will be sustainable outside the holiday season as less casual buyers will purchase a machine and the casual buyers are the more sensitive ones. We should look at October 2008 for a good indicator for the 360:PS3 sales ratio.

My sense it that we'll see the 360 sells regularly about 60%-70% above the PS3 in the Americas (40k units gap), 40%-50% above the PS3 in "Others" (50K units gap) and about 10K units behind the PS3 in Japan. All together an 80K/week lead for the 360 on sales of about 230K/week.

This great 2:1 ratio was mostly result of combination of temporary sales boost together with christmas sales boost which tends to be nicer to cheaper priced consoles.

Most likely, unless the PS3 gets a price cut.

I belive like most people that if the PS3 was same price as the 360, it would sell twice as many.

I believe like most people that if the 360 has the same features of the PS3 it would make the same price/better sales argument make some fucking sense.

The PS3 is a sexy machine, but let's face it. It's the GameCube of this Generation. 2:1 will continue if not increase I bet.

I think the bigger issue is that the 360 is outselling the ps3 after the price cut and it stayed that way. Seemingly permanantly. Remember, before the 360 was getting spanked. Now that the entire Sony corporation is bleeding tons of cash, Sony may not be able to counter it. Sony used to be able to pay for the losses of the PS3 from the profits of its other divisions, but they can't because their aarnt any. Sony will lose every single week until the price cut and it may be a 12 million gap by then!