Admit it, Nintendo totally blew it.

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Bodhesatva said:

NJ5 said:

Bodhesatva said:

Now that we see the PS3 and 360 have both outsold the Wii two weeks before Christmas, I'll repeat my stance:

If the Wii is outsold by the 360 this December, then Nintendo made a mistake. If it's outsold by the PS3 as well, then Nintendo made a BIG mistake.

The Wii didn't get outsold by anything except the DS. In US it did (due to stores choosing to sell them on Sunday apparently), but not worldwide.

 

We're talking about US here. Worldwide certainly matters, but it's significant that Nintendo is still behind the 360 in America, and is now falling farther behind.

Some pundits predicted the Wii will cede all of the headway it has made against the 360 this year in the US. I don't think that's likely, but you can clearly see that it's losing SOME ground, and that isn't a good thing. As we always say, this is a game of momentum, with hardware sales building software sales building more hardware sales and so on. Whatever the reason, if the Wii continues to fall further behind the 360 in the busiest season of the year, then that is bad.

 That is really what I was focusing on more than anything actually.  I do not think the 360 will continue to outsell the Wii and I think the Wii will actually significantly outsell the 360 next week.  Concerns and considerations should be left for observing after the fact, when we are in the midst of these sales it just feeds sensationalism to try and imply or extrapolate meaning out of a single week, particularly when we have good information that it won't continue at this rate. 

I realize you were trying to make a broad two-way statement about performance but it has the effect of implying that the Wii is on far more trecherous ground than it really is even if it wasn't your intention (which I don't think it was).