i thought it was more like 7 million gap

8-7 then.

This is exactly what I was thinking. However people will take what they want from the numbers.

you are so full of excuses to bring down the hugeness of this relaunch. it was 1000% increase no matter what.

not incorrect, just silly as nobody ever compares that way. Remember, you expected no difference since the price was still way behind the 360 and your word " UK is 360 " , but moving close to 60, 000 is suddenly no big deal.

He's got a point tho, until we know the plateau the slim settles in we can't make further judgement.

Right now what we are seeing are two years of pent up demand explode at once, but once this settles what will happen?

what were your predictions again? I can safely say no one expected such big numbers, nobody. Now, you somehow know just 600k people waited two years to get the ps3 at $299. Just amzing how much people know after the fact .

the 1000% is just an estimation, it could be more. But we didnt come up with that number, the media did. In fact, we don't even have numbers yet in the UK.

I really don't know how the PS3 will do next week, how do you ask me for the next 6 weeks.  I havent seen good sales for the PS3 for over a year now, this feels new, weird, and like you I DON'T expect it to stay, but this is like dejavu, it happened to the 360 last year.

I never predict sales. 

Anyways, are you gonna pretend it's gonna sell 500k per week from now on?

Because every pricecut on any console has caused a sales spike followed by slowdown up to a new sales plateau. If you are gonna try to defend that somehow the ps3 is gonna behave in a different manner than every single console including the ps3 (as far as the 2007 pricecut is concerned) I'd like to hear you why is it gonna happen.

what I really want to see if how Sony will compete over the Holidays where last year they were brutalized by the 200 dollar 360 SKU. It will certainly be a much less lopsided affair this year, but I don't expect that there will be some magical turn around. And cutting the gap in half by the end of the year is pure fantasy on a level that only acid users reach. We need to be grounded in some kind of reality here... saying that the PS3 will beat the 360 this Christmas is not crazy at all, but saying it's going to beat the Wii? That's insane... though I'm hoping a transition of sorts from the Wii to the HD console will occur much faster next year with the release of the Sony Wand and Project Natal.