Amazing how you alter the past just to make it fit your opinion.
- PS3 (fat) always sold better outside of 360s strongholds (mainland EU, Japan, etc.)
- 360 had a year headstart with great price, brilliant games library, superb online and still sold rather mediocre (supply constrains) and still couldnt beat PS3 on LTD sales worldwide.
- Playstation as a brand is still a force. People are associate gaming with it.
- Xbox brand and Microsoft behind it make people cautious, especially outside of NA. People think of Microsoft and NSA and not about gaming when they hear "xbox"
- Don't forget the RROD dilemma, and the loss of consumer trust in Microsoft
- Online behind a paywall with no real value for the consumer
- 360 was very western male focused, something PS3 made better
- The shift began with a reasonable price for the PS3 and great exclusive and JP games and the EU and JP market were a fallback for Sony
- Microsoft basically stopped supporting 360 after 4 years and were purely Halo/Forza oriented, while Sony gathered many new exclusive IPs in the second half of PS3 lifetime.
- 360 couldn't win much marketshare in keymarkets where its competition was strong - results to witness with the poor xbone performance
- Headstarts mean everything if done right. PS4 was supply contrained but Sony was able to deliver 1 million systems a month and sold them through. Demand is still high and will continue, because the system lives through its hype, word of mouth and positive PR