Well I said ~600k in 1rst week & ~1.1M in sept

Are you saying they will exceed their projection of 13 million for the fiscal year? :O

Everybody was way off, amazing.

I can only answer for me: I was off in my prediction cause I have no idea what I am talking about. You can hang around this site all you want, we are still missing loands of info to make educated guesses (just the members, not the admins of course, they do a great job though it appears they did low ball the PS3 sales this past week).

Lets say congrats to Sony and its PS3 for this past week (this week's sales figures) and let's get ready to precdict how the PS3 will hold up if every territory now!

Gotta end on a high note as my friend Gearge Costanza would say...

It'll be interesting to see how sustained this is. Off to a good start, but is it indicative of ongoing sales, or, as someone above me said, the 20k a week they would've sold otherwise the past few months waiting since they KNEW it was coming? Very curious to see how this shakes down when, say, ODST and New Super Mario and WiiFit+ come out.

Holidays will be interesting this year methinks!

And what will this spike do to software? What game or two do the 500k new owners buy?

Can Microsoft to anything substantial if PS3 really his hit a mass market sweet spot and will continue to sell impressive (even Wii-like) numbers for the remainder of the year? They have a SKU that is $100 cheaper than PS3. If they drop the Elite price by another $50 it might help, but at $50 difference the PS3 is still effectively the same price as the Elite when you take into account the first year of XBL Gold.

MS won't react just yet, but if PS3 looks to be substantially outselling 360 for the remainder of the year they will do something before the real holiday selling season begins. Either some mega bundles or cut the Elite by another $75 and the Arcade by $50.

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I still believe Microsoft have tricks they have not pull from the sleeve. The one area I think they really could benefit from is the Xbox solution becoming available in media centers for example it was bandied around but it has all gone quiet that would see more consoles entering living rooms although not via the traditional console root.

I also seriously doubt that the PS3 has hit a mass market appeal sweet spot but it certainly has triggered another wave of pent up demand. We need to wait for the dust to settle to see how this levels off.

Ken Kutaragi must rolling on the floor laughing

No amounts of price cuts is going to help the xbox i mean last time they cut the price it didn't outsell the ps3 by much. There is only so long ms can keep on lowering the price of the xbox anyway. I think the big deciding factor will be when they do their relaunch with natal, we will talk when the xbox sells well with natal ok, but for now i am so pleased in the result for sony and the ps3, hard work has paid off big time.

My good old 60gig PS3 is a media center. I use playon to stream netflix hulu etc. to it all the time. Just because it's not embedded doesn't mean it's not available.

Even then the streaming cost is cheaper and with more variety with the playon solution (which works with 360 as well and I think wii) , don't need the x-box live subscription, cost was a straight 40 bucks.

To me the media center concept works from either console, no real advantage that I know of between them. MS has had it's corner of the market in FPS's for quite some time, but I don't really feel they have managed to break out of that mold. Personally I enjoy an occasional FPS, but it's by far the minority of my gaming.

360 needs a flagship app that is not a FPS. A game like uncharted where it's more adventure based would do them good. To this day when I think of 360 I think Halo and not much else. It's a perception issue that I think is holding them back more than anything (and a big reason I suspect they only sell really strong in US and UK).