Only with price cut.
It has chance tho in holidays.

oh ye of little faith
of course the 360 will outsell the PS3 again worldwide.
MS will react soon

Possibly at the holidays. America is land of the xbox and i think sales for the 360 will pick up alot there during the holidays. We can all agree that the 360 will probably beat the PS3 in america but who knows if it will sell enough in america to make up for Japan and Europe.

I honestly cannot see it happening either. Here is a prediction; Next time M$ has a price cut, so to will SONY. If that happens, then I say no.

SONY has done an incredible job at turning things around this gen. My monies on them for 2nd place. They have the steam and tools to stay in front, too. Their biggest weapon is that the consumer sees the PS3 as an expensive item so all it's price cuts should have more effect.

Natal is IMHO is not gonna push the 360 to the top. It might even confuse or scare the Joe Publics off. Price? Risky stuff really. Natal tho, might really help M$'s next console, IF IT WORKS that is.

@Hanzo

Except you forget M$ has the money to cut prices whenever they want. Sony does not. if M$ were to cut the price of the 360 tomorrow i GUARANTEE Sony will not be able to drop the price. Sony will not be cutting the price for a long while

As for Natal im pretty skeptical it will push hardware sales unless its included with all 360s and comes with a big new casual IP. So im not going to pass judgement on whether or not it will sell consoles.

it will come down to whether or not M$ can get some more new Exclusives out the door and another price drop. And yes we will see 360 outsell the PS3 for many weeks somewhere down the line when conditions that i stated above happen. And then later on the PS3 will do the same and retake the lead in weekly sales. This is the console war at its greatest

I think the PS3 will sell more each month on from now on. MS doesn't want to cut the price I'm sure, they will probably bundle stuff rather than price cut, that's not a good way to fight, undercutting yourself that is.

Thing is, if Natal was in the hands of Nintendo, I am more confident it will succeed, after what they did with Wii, with MS its hard to say, because i think MS wants money more than quality, if there were no competition, I think MS would happily sell shit in a box with a big happy smile, at least Nintendo and Sony have some pride in their hardware. I'm reffering to RROD incidents, selling shabby boxes to gain the upper hand ... I'm emo about that when I think about it ...

I think people need to remember that there is a reason why Microsoft has more money than most countries in its possession. They know how to take control of a market.

159.99 360 Arcade Unit = Lock for Europe and America.

I also think that people need to be a little less skeptical of NATAL.

The 360 and PS3 will likely do a role reversal from last year and the 360 will have a few weeks where it beats PS3. MW2 could be one of those weeks.

"The XBox 360 will never outsell the PS3 ever again in weekly console sales". I am willing to wage a perma-ban on it. If the XBox 360 beats the PS3 in one sales week worldwide I want to be banned forever. To come back knowing I failed with a huge prediction - the shame would be too much for me to bear.

@dorbin

Know how to take control of a market? You, of short memory. MS got damn lucky getting a deal with IBM to bundle Windows licenses with IBM compatible PC's. Heck, MS still had not acquistioned what was to become DOS, at the time they did the deal with IBM.

MS entered the console market as a new player (like Sony). Conversely, if you take away Windows and Office, MS is basically a bleeding company. It is Windows and Office that generates all the bundles of cash.

taking control of the console market actually means MS has to sell things for little profit, if not for a loss. This is no monopoly.

I just find it strange that anyone can say "Microsoft know how to take control of a market" where the only market they have ever controlled (albeit it's a bloody big one and important one) is the PC O/S and Office market.

MS have desperately been trying to diversify. Their Search division, their Gaming and Zune division. Was it not Ballmer that once said that the iPhone would be a complete flop? MS have proven quite a bit over the past 10 years, even with their cash, just how damn hard it is to take control of a market that has nothing to do with PC's.

Looking at history, and I am not trying to be Mr Sony here, it is Sony that proved they knew how to take control of a new market after their little fallout with Nintendo and making the CD drive for the big N. Sony came from behind and owned the console industry.

I am not saying MS can't do it but it's going to cost a heck of a lot more than what it did for Sony.