Okay, you are probably right. The Xbox 360 is doomed.

Well to the early leak it might be less than 100k, like 75 or less.

Straigth from the article:

"PS3 sold nearly 400,000 units during the week"
"Around 325,000 Xbox 360s were sold"

So a 70k - 75k difference @ black friday... two months after the price cut and the redesign / relaunch of the PS3. I

There is no reason for MS to be worried about. The sales of the Xbox360 are very decent for a console in its fifth year. There is no chance in hell that the PS3 will catch up to the Xbox 360 in NA. Yeah there is a $50 / $100 price difference, so what? The Xbox 360 will always be cheaper than the PS3. This has been the same situation since this gen started. The point is that MS makes money with the cheaper console and Sony loses money with the more expensive one.

Next year, after the more than likley price cut and after the release of Natal, Sony is forced to make a very hard choice again. Should they cut the price again (and continue to make losses) or should they try not to lose more than $250 million every 3 months (that was their BEST result for the PS3 I think) for the very first time.

Actually I think MS has Sony at the balls.

But all this is not interesting for us, the gamers. Both consoles will see major 3rd party support for the rest of the generation.

Sony is at microcraps throat. They cant afford to cut the pice of the box

Oh good, I'm glad to see a third consecutive year of "PS3 will pass 360 next year" posts. These never get old.

Does it really matter? MS has put a hurt on Sony this generation (though not to the bloody flogging Big N has given everyone). Or really, more accurately, Sony has put a hurt on themselves with a $300 console in its fourth holiday season.

Next year, MS will drop the 360 price, sales will surge, and Sony will counter sometime down the road. If (and it's a big "if") the PS3 passes the 360 in overall sales, it will be so late in the generation that no one outside of fanboy number freaks will give a damn.

The only thing we've really learned this generation is:

1. Well-implemented innovation wins out over everything
2. Launching a console at $400+ is a very, very bad idea 

So... Sony is bleeding money, MS is doing alright, yet Microsoft is the one who can't afford to cut the price.

Gotcha.

Sony pulled a "Paradigm Shift" on Microsoft, I guess they hoped to affect the Wii as well, but as it turns out it was the 360 that had the closest relationship with the PlayStation business at this point.

Back when Nintendo did it, the 360 also came off slightly unaffected. The market is once again flipped, and Microsoft seems to be the new party under the wave. You can expect Sony to pull ahead of MS if not this year then next.

  They'll do one more, announced in 2011-2012, but if they keep losing money like they've been doing, the company itself may not be around by the time the gen after that comes around

Soooo you expect the PS3 to outsell the 360 by over 6 million in 2010.

You realize how difficult that is, right? Teh maths don't agree with your statement.

In the past 12 months, the 360 has sold ~11m consoles. In the past 12 months, the PS3 has sold ~11.5m consoles. Yet you expect that to go to something like 11m (360) versus 17.5m (PS3) in the next 12 months, completely ignoring a potential price drop by Microsoft in the next calendar year.

Do some of you actually look at the numbers before making these predictions?

I'm pretty sure Sony learned their lesson with the PS3. Expect the PS4 to be a radically different machine... In a good way. No obscene $600 price tag, no confused marketing plans, and a more direct attack at the gaming market. I think they'll be okay.

True, I don't see any division of a company making huge losses and keeping doing it for more than 5 years. If the PS3 doesnt become profitable in the next 2 years, then Sony will have no choice but to close their gaming division. This is only basic logic. 

That news post has been updated. This is an edit from the PS3 portion.

So it may end up being 125k more, not 75k.