There's a sub argument going on in this thread about how Americans love the Xbox 360 because it was made by an American company. I don't recall us jumping on the Atari Jaguar bandwagon back in the 90's or anything. Since the debut of the Nintendo Entertainment System, the people of America have been madly in love with the consoles from Nintendo and Sony (and Sega, to a lesser extent). Hell, Sega sometimes did better in America than it did in Japan!
This whole "American Patriotism" thing is some bullshit. We just buy what we like. The 360 is a quality console that does a lot of things right and very few things wrong. That's why it's selling. Discounting all of the business choices that Microsoft made to get their console into the position that it's in today is just wrong--just as wrong as forgetting all of the boneheaded decisions that Sony has made this gen which essentially gave Microsoft an advantage.
Oh, and Nintendo says, "Hi".
