So this presents the question: Does Solid Snake finish his mission to destroy the Xbox 360? Without question, yes. If I were Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg, I wouldn’t be looking so green these days. The Playstation 3 has outsold the Xbox 360 for 2008 in North America, Microsoft’s strongest market, despite cosing significantly more than its competitor. The Playstation 3 is already killing the Xbox 360 in Europe and Japan. What’s worse is that it continues to sell at round parity with the Xbox 360 in North America despite massive shortages of the 80 GB PS3. With the incredible hype and pent up demand for the 80 GB SKU, you will see June sales of the Playstation 3 skyrocket and the Xbox 360 simply will not be able to recover. Combine that with firmware update 2.4 which will give Playstation games everything (and more) that Xbox Live provides but at no additional cost, and Microsoft must be sweating bullets right now (hopefully doing so on top of their overheating Xbox 360s). The release of the most groundbreaking title in the history of gaming as a Playstation 3 exclusive will push the PS3 to record heights and leave the Xbox 360 red ringing in its dust. Thank you Solid Snake. The battle was fierce for a year or so, but luckily you have killed the Xbox 360. On June 12, 2008 it truly begins.