are you in permanent damage limitation mode?

Like the massive boost that Galaxy 2 gave it? The PS2 did not fall this fast in sales and it is truly staggering the lengths some people (not talking about you) will go to to look away from current numbers, the Wii is currently seriously underperforming compared to the lofty expectations in here and besides the initial "the Wii will be a success" prediction, almost every single omptimistic Wii hardware prediction in here has gone awry. The guaranteed 50% by the end of 08 and 09 and 10', the guaranteed 45 million sold by 08, the guaranteed 70-75 million by 09, the incredible boost from price and color change that has resulted in yoy drops this year and the list goes on. Look at people such as John Lucas, his predictions were hailed as genius and amazing, yet all of them crashed and burned heavily, which resulted in him all but leaving the site in embarrassment and in sum, he is actually a lot farther away with his predictions than the one member who got the most ridicule and flack in here (I did it as well so I'm not being holier than thou); Crazzyman with his moronic predictions that everyone either shrugged off or plain laughed at. And then there are the intellectuals who make deep analysis showing how the Wii will grow and grow, making yoy gains both this year and next (not so many of those anymore though, I think even the brainy guys are starting to see it won't happen) and how it will zoom past the PS2 and the DS, despite the DS outselling it by up to 50-100% some weeks and continuously staying far above in hardware despite being quite a bit farther into the lifecycle (and the large yoy drops, the Wii even failed to make gains yoy in 2009, despite the extreme optimism). Come to think of it, the DS is the console that many want the Wii to be, but the Wii will never reach DS numbers in hardware sales, its just not gonna happen.

Its doing great but not quite as great as some people would have it.Its okay, it will still end up as the second best selling home console of all time and third best selling console overall and that coming from a predecessor that barely managed 25 million units sold and this is a staggering feat, the most impressive turnaround in console history in my honest opinion.

PS: Before anyone answers (like they always do); lol fanboy, baron butthurt, dumb oaf etc, I'm a PC gamer plain and simple. I own a PS3 but I rarely touch it despite owning a dozen or so games for it. My bias now lies with the PC and I kind of resent all consoles for stealing developers and dumbing down all games and genres into pulp.

Edit; sorry for the fire and brimstone, I'm in a nostalgic period again, playing old games and realizing just how shitty new ones are...

I don't.

3D is a cool feature and all, but it's way too expensive to get anywhere near mass market penetration. You aren't going to find many people willing to shellout $3000 on a TV set, not to mention wear those stupid glasses. $2000-$3000 for a TV is simply too much money, unless the thing is gonna like, make you breakfast or something.

3DTV's are already $1400,that good price 

I still can't even justify spending any more than $300 for an HDTV.

now that cheap man

I was wondering if the Slim got released in UK and Japan or not. From the sales numbers, it doesn't look like it did. Unless retails have them locked up in the storage room for the holidays. lol!! XBox 360 sales surged in the U.S., which was expected.

The PS2 did not fall this fast in sales 

Actually, is that true?  I have no clue for Europe, but everywhere else seems split... Wii's fallen behind PS2 in Japan and won't recover imo (it's about a 3.5m ltd deficit launch aligned), but in the US it's still on par with or better than PS2 month to month afaik, even in the current economic climate... 

PlayStation 2 (2004)

• Jan: 338,000
• Feb: 363,000
• Mar: 294,000
• Apr: 189,000
• May: 253,000
• Jun: 427,000
• 1H 2004: 1,864,000

Wii (2010)

• Jan: 466,000
• Feb: 398,000
• Mar: 558,000
• Apr: 277,000
• May: 335,000
• Jun: 423,000
• 1H 2010: 2,457,000

Hm, very interesting indeed. It really is interesting to see the hardware explosion that this generation is seeing, especially compared to the PS2/Xbox/GCN gen. PS3, for a third place console, is already leagues ahead of last gen's third place console... and we're not finished yet. Just makes me sad to think of how low GCN's NPDs were.