i will be sursprised if the gap is not down to 5.5m or less, the x360 will have to pull out major stops in the hope to try and reduce what ps3 is doing to it right now

i have not forgotten i know that because i was one of the few that actually bought a ps3 when it was released, yes xbox 360 has had some good sales since then, but now sales for the ps3 are picking up quite a bit now, just watch how many ps3's get sold when ff releases in japan, not to mention gt5 will give it a nice boost 2.

still on average ps3 has sold more consoles in in's first three years compared to xbox 360, that alone tells how this all is going to end out, m$ will lose again, eventually, but before that even happens they will put out the xbox 360, which is unfair to all the users that ever bought it.

i will apologise if they don't pull out the xbox 360, but i have been the witness to many bad things all done by m$

This week is where the PS3 should start to pull away again, we should see ~100k gap.

@kowen, do you still expect it to be close these holidays?

actually m$ is losing money on the xbox division, and no it is no idiotic to say they will pull it out, what did they do to the original because it did not do as well as they wanted it to, plus it was bleeding money.

sony has done their own evil things i admit, no one can forget the DRE, but all electronic devices have a failure rate, and none of the other companines fix your faulty products for free, yes it is not fair, but thats how things work when you are a business.

P.S whats wrong with advertising the product you support, especially seen it is a great quality product a such a great price??

You should make another thread in January to see how close people were.

Actually, Sony killed Sony market share.

If Sony were not that arrogant in the beginning of the generation, and made a cheap (400-300$) system, that it is easy to develop to, PS3 would've outsold the 360 faster than the Wii.

I thought Microsoft pulled the plug on the original XBox because they screwed up on their contract with Nvidia for the supply of graphics cards, making impossible for them to remain competitive and make money on the XBox.  

I agree with Kowenicki about having an advert in your sig.  PS3 is a great console at a great price but advertising for Sony smacks of fanboyism.  If you liked a newspaper would you deliver it for free?

Don't see what supposed price shafting has to do with the failure rate.

Regardless, do you have any figures for the failure rate? I had my fat ps2 from launch and it still works to this day; the same can be said for all my friends' ps2s.

My ps2 worked perfectly fine for 4 years...

My 360 broke on me in 15 months

Try answering my question.

I, for example, can point to dozens of consumer surveys and polls that indicate failure rates for the 360 of 68%, etc, etc. In light of this, it is not unfair of me to claim that the 360 has an horrendous failure rate.

You, in contrast, have pointed to nothing that shows your claim to be anything more than conjecture.

I'm not after a 360 vs Sony consoles failure rate war here. I just want to see what your evidence is; stop dodging.