Is this DS's best month ever?

Over 2 million Wiis sold and a small increase from last month and you want to throw out "demand is down".  Yeah, you wish, Aj!  But yeah, either there was a shortage or NPD overtracked in November.  It'll all come out in the financial report wash.

Well that conspiracy costed EA a lot of money. Guitar Hero sold amazing. That's a) lost revenue this holiday, b) Lost revenue in the future, since people will likely stick with the brand and c) Loss of marketshare vs Activision

Well done ignoring the Wii! Congratulations with the "betting on the wrong horse" award. It could be called a small mistake if Guitar Hero III didn't sell through the roof on Wii last year. This is pure stupidity.

Welp. Wii was overtracked for hardware, according to NPD.

But holy Hell at the Wii software. That's staggering.

Looking at full year trends, things look a little nicer for Sony's platforms

2008:

Wii 10.15 million (+61%)
360 4.73 million (+2.3%)
PS3 3.54 million (+38%)
PS2 2.50 million ( - 37%)
NDS 9.95 million ( +17% )
PSP 3.83 million ( 0% )

2007:

Wii 6.29 million
360 4.62 million
PS2 3.97 million
PS3 2.56 million
NDS 8.50 million
PSP 3.82 million

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PSP is flat YoY, so it's had 2 peak years in America?

PS3 has done really good for the last 12 months in America considering the lack of a price cut.

For as good as 360 did this month, YoY isn't too nice. This is peak year, no?

Wii and DS are monstorus!

So this basically means that

1) Wii didn't outsell this holiday season in the US, OR
2) Nintendo didn't up the production as much as they said they would

Either way it's really disappointing.

 Dude no offence but 9% is a MASSIVE drop. If it happened at any other time of the year then what you say would be true. But it wasen't. It was at the time of the year where majority of people buying a console will buy one such is how the holidays work. Is it normal that a console in its 3rd holiday drops that far? Not if you compare it to history it is not.

Sensationalizing would be to say something like "PS3 is dead", that is not what i said nor what i implied. It is the knock on effect of that is what is worrying. As i said Sony will have no option now but to do 1 of 2 things, either accept that in US at least they will not get 1st place and now looks very unlikely will come 2nd. The gap is now 8.34M in US between the PS3 and the 360. Or do a price cut and hope sales pick up. If they do that they risk losing many more billions because as Joe mentioned PS3 sales for games are not even that great. The top PS3 game of the year barely made it onto the list and then still got killed sales wise by the 360 version. That sends out a msg as mentioned that going exclusive on PS3 could be a huge gamble to 3rd party devs. So the PS3 is not doomed, far from it. But MS have played Sony like a bunch of chumps. While Sony are trying to figure out what to do MS have snuck in on their old stronghold of europe and started to make that replicate the american sales. The question as i mentioned becomes how long can Sony let MS beat them week after week in EU and US before saying "this gen is lost"? They have some massive decisions to make. If these numbers were not 9% down, say they were something like 2% Up they would not be under the same pressure to act. The next few weeks will be vital for the PS3 in terms of compeating for 2nd place in US in my view.

Anecdotal, I know, but near me it was at least difficult to find, in that the two places I go that would have it didn't while I was there.  I wasn't actively checkin, though, so that's a very limited sample size.

Here's another number from IGN, Wii Music sold 865k in 2008! Million selling in 2009 confirmed!