I'd take a wait and see approach on all these numbers for now. That's especially the case with MS' report. At least Sony we know the numbers were bad because of their focus on percent gains and Nintendo generally doesn't play with numbers and at any rate even if they reported shipped then that means sold to customer for the Wii. MS on the other hand has been known to be sly with sales figures and especially now that Nintendo beat them to the punch they have to report the best figure they can create. As we found out last year around this time MS is capable of shipping a heck of a lot 360s to retailers whether they sell or not.
The thing that continues to strike me though is how bone-headed MS' managers seem to be. They were really surprised that a sub-$300 360 would sell better than the $350+ variants? With managerial brilliance like that it's no wonder MS can only make money on video games the quarters that Halo sells millions of copies (oh and by using shifty accounting).
As for the software figures, those are from last month and aren't all that impressive for the 360. It had 51% of the hardware base and 52% of cost adjusted software sales.
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