Availability problems makes the PS3 sales a Wash in mid 2008? (update: nope)

[Elandyll]

According to the French gaming blog "Gameblog", NPD has released sales "estimations" for the main consoles in the US for July.

http://www.gameblog.fr/news_5815_pre...les-en-juillet

The sales would be as follow, and are for now touted as "estimations", although they seem rather precise to be only estimations.

DS : 625.445
Wii : 612.545
Xbox 360 : 325.488
PS3 : 275.444
PSP : 235.447

The Xbox is touted to have outsold the PS3 by more than 50.000 units, which was expected by specialists given the clearance $299 price on the Xbox 360 20Gb, as well as the lowered availability of the 40Gb PS3 model which is -according to Sony- no longer in production, waiting for the arrival of the new 80Gb SKU in late August.

If those assertions are correct, this could lead to a dire situation in August with less 40Gb SKUs available and people waiting for the new SKU to be available, resulting in a comfortable 360 lead in sales as well in August (the new Xb 360 $349 60Gb SKU is expected this week).
So far, the PS3 has outsold the 360 in January, February, March, May, and massively in June thanks to MGS4. Being outsold in July and badly in August could pretty much bring back the PS3 sales lead to a wash (and a near tie) for the first half of 2008 in the US, mostly due to unavailable 40Gb SKUs and the timing of the new SKU.

Hoping those are not confirmed, and that August does not follow those predictions.
This being said, we all know that the "real" sales game is Sept-Jan...