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On the issue of Wii sales I would guess in addition to fishyjoes point that it could simply be many shipments coming in the last couple days of last week and many coming in the first days of next week. As for the 360 I wouldn't have guessed sales were lower than this week last year (I'm too lazy to verify that though) but whatever, it's doing alright which is more than can be said about the PS3.

As for the economics side discussion everyone probably should shutup because everyone thus far has been wrong. However, I won't say so since I'm not going to waste the time explaining why everyone is wrong so keep at it and have fun (although avinash is close to a reasonable argument just not so in the manner argued, hint GDP is the wrong statistic to use).  If you're relying on media reports and such I'll just point out there's a reason Rush Limbaugh makes fun of the fact that just about every economics news story starts out with "the experts were surprised..." or "economists were caught offguard...".