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Huh? what? That is false every way you can look at it.  The 360 is WoW outselling the PS3 of 1 year ago (if you're looking at aligned launches). The 360 is currently outselling the PS3. And with the "1 year drop in sales" we can't do an aligned launch comparison of the 360's 2009 sales until the PS3's 2010 sales are in.

Well put. My reality says the current point in time is May 2009, and that the 360 is over 8 million units ahead of the PS3. What's the date in your reality, and what are the sales?

I think you completely missed the point. Rereading my post, though, I suppose I can clarify, just a bit.

It was said earlier in this thread, and it's worth repeating: entering the market first brings with it risk, along with the potential advantage that comes from having your product available before the competition.

In this scenario, it seems to have paid off--Microsoft has done what they set out to do by eating into Sony's market share while significantly growing the Xbox brand. A lot of this would not have been possible had they released the Xbox 360 at the same time, or later, than the Playstation 3. Granted, early entry is hardly a guarantee--the examples you posted above are more than proof of this.

Regardless, there's no denying that being first to market, at least in part, afforded the Xbox 360 the 8 million console lead it currently has. Aligning dates is meaningless--the market is constantly changing, and momentum swings, console cost, economic downturns, and all manner of other economic and market changes make it extremely difficult to predict the future strictly based on past performance without considering the present state of the market.

The only "delusion" I see in this thread are the absurd justifications made by fanboys to convince themselves that the PS3 is somehow the victor against the Xbox 360, because "aligning the dates" makes it so. Now, obviously we can't predict if the 360 will maintain its lead for the rest of the generation, or if it will eventually be overtaken by the Playstation 3. But I have a much more important question:

Do we really give a shit?

Given the large lead that the 360 enjoys, even if the Playstation 3 ends up selling more consoles at the end of the generation, it will be far too late for it to even remotely matter.

LMAO dude Europe has not adopted the 360, PS3 has already outsold it in pretty much every country other then the uk.

Even with a much higher price and later launch PS3 has whooped on the 360.

Maybe you should check the last few months of sales then, the 360 is outselling the PS3 in every country except Germany (ps3 ahead by less than 1k) and "others"

Last time I checked (yesterday) the 360 has continued to outsell the PS3 in Europe for over 6 months with 360 ahead by over 1 million units and rising,

Sony fanboys are so deluded, pure comedy gold!

lol, you think he'll still be around in 12 months?  I don't know, he doesn't seem like the "long term" kind of user to me...

I think he will change his name to, yup, you guessed it "360beatsPS3"

xbox fanboys are so dense its priceless.

LT sales child, PS3 sales are above 360 overall pretty much everywhere other then in the uk. Is that so hard to understand ?

Thus it looks like 360 is far from adopted by the Europeans, most major makrets like France Italy Spain Germany seem to be rather anti 360.