For the love of god let me take you up on that bet.

Lets say half your life savings (I don't want to leave you poor)

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Seriously the PS3 isn't even going to sell another 8 million before 2010, never mind 8 million + whatever X360 sells.

It "CAN" happen, logicly if we add assumptions and what we believe would be the most likely scenerio to occur then you will get a lower gap, possibly down a million or two. Again logicly, this generation is anything but logic (that doesn't mean its going to explode or flop, we dont have the necessary data for that, its a wait and see game)

4m and i'll go no higher or lower.

thats the ultimate at reason.

For the PS3 to close the gap to 1 million it has to sell 7 million MORE than what the X360 sells in the next 4.5 months.

Let me put that into perspective for you... Last year the PS3 managed just 4.8 million in the same period of time.... obviously it will do a lot better than that this year, but to close the gap to 1 million it has to sell 7 million + X360 Christmas sales, which are not going to be as low as last years PS3 sales that's for sure.... but even if they were, that's 4.8 + 7 million = 11.8 million

It is more than likely though, that the X360 will do better than that, not quite up to last year but 5.5 million is reasonable... which now puts the PS3 needed sales to 12.5 million.

Feel free to take 2 million away to say the gap will be 3 million... but that is still a ludicrous figure... I will be very suprised f the "gap" has closed by more than 2 million by years end.

think hes talking bout for the year even i dont see the ps3 closing the 8 mill gap in 4 months 360 still has a 200$ arcade that will come with a few good games for there usual holiday bundles

4 the year it will happen ps3 will sell more than 360

gap will be closed to around 6mill if gt5 ww and FF for japan comes out this year than a bit more than that

I instantly took it that he meant outsell the 360 for the year, i.e. 2009 12 month totals.

Of course, there is a flaw in his opening statement about cost - the PS3 is not as affordable as the 360 even now since there is still the cheaper Arcade model...

Wow my head almost exploded from lack of reason in this thread!  

So between 2-3 people in this little thread think the PS3 can sell at least 12 fucking million by years end (and thats only if the 360 sells a measly 4 million from now till years end)

What the hell guys???

leo. The PS3 is not going to sell like the Wii did last Christmas ever... if you look at what "can" happen, I could get struck by lightning tomorrow... in truth there is probably more chance of that than there is of the PS3 catching up to just 1 million behind X360.

After Kowen wrote down the numbers i took back what i said. because he was right, that would be impossible.

Edit: 4.5m is my final bet!