I still want to know what caused the boost.

Also, Wii is massivley down YoY despite a pricecut and NSMB Wii.

I would leave a little commentary but the cursor seems to be stuck in the table and wont budge away from it.

What are you talking about? Shortages ended in 2008, they've only started again this December. The decline due to a lack of Wii Fit makes no sense, Wii Fit plus is selling more than Wii Fit was in 09 before WF+'s release.

If shortages did not exist as an explanation for Wii being so much down YoY, the fad would officially be over.

It is up slightly in Japan though, although it is down more in America then it is up in Japan...

This time last year the Wii was still selling very strongly and had sort of a carryover effect from the astronomical 2008. It wasn't until quarter 2 that Wii sales began to fall in 2009. Now if Wii sales are down from Q2 this year to last year's Q2, that's when I'll start to get a bit concerned. But I don't think that will happen with the next few months having some strong titles coming and the prolonged effect of NSMB Wii.

And of course, there is also the shortage issue in America.

HAHA!

You're so quick to point out PS3 shortages, yet you ignore the console that's having real shortages.

A lot of attention this year for HD consoles..we've already had some big titles out.. Bayonetta, Bioshock2, MassEffect2,darksiders,dantes inferno and FF13 hitting us in a few days.. I'd say things are gonna stay this way for a while.. until wii strikes back with mario, zelda and metroid.. kinda reminds me of SEGA's big 3 back in the day: VF2, Virtua cop and sega rally releasing the same time...

I thought I saw mention of the Wii being in short supply as well, oh well. Its no biggie.

If the Wii is infact declining then I don't particularly see a problem. The console had a lot of adoption very quickly which is ideal for Nintendo making a profit quickly. Its perfectly understandable because there was little holding back interested people from buying a new console and they got appealing software out quickly which drove adoption. So if the release a successor it'll be a rinse/repeat process really and they can easily respond with new hardware in 2011 and take advantage of the portability of modern console games to build up a library quickly.

How is that a good thing? while MS and Sony have repeatedly dropped prices, and MS in particular, has worked very hard to get the most high quality support from 3rd party devs, Nintendo charges more for their console can is necessary, and doesn't care that 90% of software not created with their licenses is shovelware.

Yes, smile if you like platformers and last-gen graphics. And while it's nice to see Sony get knocked down a peg after telling us to get second jobs to pay for their system, Nintendo's hardly doing this for our benefit.

(Also, I'd hardly classify MS as an 'arrogant console maker' considering they entered the market last and were the scrappy underdogs a very short time ago)

I'd love to see how high the Wii and ps3 numbers would be if there were no supply issues.

Guess we'll never know, though.

As of yesterday, we had 8 pre-orders for ps3s at my store, and 10 for Wiis.  What's amazing about that Wii figure it that we get Wii stock on a more regular basis than ps3 stock, so we're selling nearly twice as much per week and we still end up with more Wii reserves on hand at the end of the week.

The only shortages i heard about for Wii were mid January. Have they been sorted?