Wii wins everything.

Hardware sales. Profits. Game sales. Increase in marketshare.

Everything that matters, Wii won.

Perfect deduction attaboy! And they won by a lot!

The only logical answer is "it doesn't matter when every console sold a minimum of 78 million units."

Seriously. In what other generation have we seen all the major platforms sell so evenly? In ever other generation since the Atari came out, there's been one console curbstomping everyone else. The closest equivalent I can think of is the 16-bit era, and even then the SNES bodied the Genesis.

And rather than making whole "console war" concept irrelevant, those numbers made it more parochial and stupid. It always depresses the shit out of me seeing people treat the small gap between total PS3 and 360 numbers like some mighty struggle between heaven and hell. I expect more of the same next gen.

This is correct. But in my heart they are dead last as the console was a bore to me.

I have to agree with this one here. Will won regardless of how some people feel about it. As for Xbox 360 and PS3 I remember back at launch most people thought the 360 would not do well at all but looking at how much it sold compared to the first Xbox it did amazing last gen.

I suppose it depends how you define war and whether or not this whole concept of war is solely in the minds of the gaming public.

For me the best console for games was the PS3. Clearly, in terms of sales the Wii sold more hardware.

Profitability is a little trickier. On the face of it, the Wii seems to be a runaway leader here, followed by 360 and then PS3. However, Sony was playing a bigger game when the PS3 launched. It lost focus on gamers in the first couple of years (and recovered that focus in time to effect a massive turnaround in the console's fortunes) but, in those early days, it also used the PS3 as a highly effective weapon in winning the HDD/BluRay battle. That victory is a gift that keep on giving.

Ps3 won to me.

To some people it is just that, the everlasting struggle between heaven and hell. I get the impression sometimes that this is all that matters in their lives.

However there is no denying that there is a sensible degree of sastisfaction for a lot of fans when their weapon of choice does well, I see nothing wrong with this.

I am not sure BluRay was worth the trojan tactics... Sony would have been able to push a much more competitive pricing and the investment could have been better used in a VOD service.

Overall it seems to have been a mistake not only for the gaming division :

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenpope/2012/04/12/sonys-blues-caused-by-blu-ray/

I am pretty confident it will :)