[quote name='jer7583']With Sony's brand name and incredible dominance last generation, I don't think it can be anything but a huge victory for Microsoft to see that their console(which was limited in stock much more than PS3 during its first four months) sold so comparably to the PS3.
It's a good thing for Microsoft, and a sobering thing for Sony, not necessarily bad, but they will have a much more realistic competitor chomping at their heels this generation.
All these numbers show is how close things are. Sony really should have blown them away out of the gate with the Sony loyal PS2 fanbase behind them, but they are making the transition from PS2 to PS3 much more difficult than it should be, not to mention lacking good, unique software to motivate purchases. $130 to suddenly $600? That's going to happen very slowly, and it gives MS even more time to snatch away those PS2 owners that will define the current generation's top seller.[/QUOTE]
Make your mind up. You're one of those people who have been overstating the demise of the PS3 since day

ing 1 (okay, to be fair, it was closer to day

ing 9, but I digress...). If the PS3 is not selling, then you can't, by comparison, act as if the same sales (and let's not bicker about a few thousand units - it's a statistical dead heat at that point) which mean Sony is about to go out of business, have no idea what they're doing, and make them the laughingstock of the game industry, suddenly mean that Microsoft has immense goodwill, knows what they're doing, and have awesome sales to be proud of. In so doing, you're understating Xbox sales last generation. They never surpassed PS2 because PS2 beat them to market by 12 months - but sales never slumped on either system (the same can be said for both current-gen consoles).
If you look at US, EU, and JP sales, with the exception of Nintendo, things are really playing themselves out in damn near the same way they did the last generation. The 360 is slightly ahead, but that's only because it can be. That was an option it did not have the last time around.
I understand your point about MS sales, but you're really ignoring the sales gap b/w Sony and MS in the US last generation; it wasn't as massive as you think. Now, if you were talking about Nokia's sales of the "N-Gage 2" selling comparable with the PS3, then perhaps you have a point...