well i am an Australian and my fat ps2 from launch is still working.

"MS never had a broblem with any of their products"
^^^^
TRUE THAT!!!!

Wouldn't it be worse if they couldn't  :)

what ??? i only said i like his point of view, man

@OP:

Why people love companies when they only want your money? Because those companies deserve your money! If a good game/console is made, people want to buy it because of the quality it has. They don't just love the company, they love it's products.
Sometimes this turns into an obsession. As many people can't afford multiple consoles, they only stick with one. Scared that they might have chosen the wrong one, they literally praise everything the company does, often making irrational, unlogical statements.
This is called fanboyism, and in the worst cases it can be compared to fundamental religion, coming to your 'defend them as if they're gods' example.
So yes, for fanboys, companies are very much like gods.

In this forum, the situation is a little more complicated. Because the main thing on VGChartz is sales numbers, the most objective part of the console war, fanboys are put into a very awkward position. If console A sells more weekly than console B, they can at most deny it with the 'VGChartz undertracks console B!!' argument.
For this reason, they make strange predictions, like 'Wii is a fad and it will stop selling next week'.

I'll warn you: fanboys are verywhere and they cannot be reasoned with, and this forum is about sales, money and companies, so if you think those are irrelevant, you might wan't to back off.
And if you don't want to back of and learn to live with fanboys just like most of us: welcome to the forums!

Everything is good.

We don't care if they're out to make money. We all know that already. Every freaking person in the world is out to make money. Whether we like or hate a company is usually based on A) How successful their methods are at making money, and B) If we approve of the methods they use to make money.

Once you recognize that making money is in and of itself completely natural and not something warranting hatred, it becomes quite clear the reasons for hating or liking a company. 

By the end of the current generation video game market share we will have roughly 50% Nintendo Wii, 25% PS3 and 25% XBox 360.

What percentage will own all three?
What percentage will own two?
What percentage will own one?

Please someone fill me in what they believe will be the break down and the answer to my questions. thanks.

Grammer aside, I'm sure Peyton Manning, or Eli for that matter, could give a shit less about me as well, but I'm still a huge fan. Being a fan doesn't require your love to be returned, its just something that you give for the quality entertainment, personality, and percieved unility the object of the fandom exude.

To further that analogy, I also hate Tom Brady, I don't know why, but I know what hating him causes me to believe about him.

So yes, I understand the love and hate of consoles. I do, however, not hate any consoles, because all of them are fun in their own way. The RRoD issues are terrible however, and that is my only major gripe with any of the consoles, and its a major one no matter what anyone would have you believe. Try explaining RRoD to a customer before them selling a vaccum cleaner, or telling someone their new big screen TV has a 15 percent failure rate, and they might have to send it in. Nobody would buy it. If the industry is trying to go mainstream, then RRoD just simply cannot cut it.

I contend that if the majority of consumers knew about RRoD, they wouldn't purchase the 360. If, say, there was a week of news coverage on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the Oreilley Factor, you would see the 360 sales drop like a rock, I'd put money on it. The reason it sells as well as it does, imo, is that the consumer doesn't have all the information. I know I didn't when I bought mine.

Exactly.