My bad, X360 is at 34.3m in the US.
The interesting thing is from about mid 2006 to mid 2011 consoles, in whatever combination (including PS2, GC and Xbox) were selling 17m - 20m or so every 12 months. That number is way down, to like 14.3m, and still rapidly dropping as PS3 / X360 are now dropping quickly too.
I do think we'll see one last run of decent to strong non-holiday Wii numbers when they cut to $100 (cutting to $130 wouldn't do anything) if they leave it bundled with a game. The holiday numbers won't be great, with Wii U and other price cuts possibly coming too, but the Wii holiday line up still has a hand full of major releases to keep it from doing say, 300,000 in December or something irrelevant.
If it was me, I'd cut Wii to $100 in October - let it ride it out the holiday at that price point with Just Dance 4 / Epic Mickey 2, a new wave of cheaper software, and potentially additional retailer discounts.
Wii U (assuming it launches for $300 or less with NSMB Wii U and a bundled game), should sell over a million in Nov-Dec just in the US, so it doesn't really matter if Wii only does like 500,000 in Nov and 750,000 in Dec (which is my current estimate if they cut price in Oct).
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