Nintendo does not need a new console, and certainly not a "Wii HD." Wii momentum thus far has been driven by the strength of its game library, and that alone should be enough to keep momentum going in the future. DKC and Wii Relax could be huge revitalizers that bring the Wii back to its usual high sales.

DKC? I really doubt that.

I wouldn't doubt the influence DKC can have on sales. While the series isn't quite as big as Mario, it is very close. Donkey Kong is still a well known and loved character, and the DKC series on Super NES was perhaps the most popular franchise on the console after the Mario games. Add 15 years of built up hype, and there is no doubt in my mind that this game will move hardware, and lots of it.

Or you know, no-one except those nintendo-fans who have already bought the wii even knows about donkey kong.

I don't trust anything which bleeds red for 5 years and doesn't die! (jk)

I feel abashed by these console sales!

But the 360 sales have almost no effect on software. That proves that the majority of the slim sales goes to existing 360 owners.

That proves nothing. It is just a theory and it does not take anything away from these lovely sales numbers.

or the new owners just spent all their money for the week on the console and will make do with borrowing off freinds and XBLA titles until next week...

edit: oh and rentals can't forget the rentals and second hand games you know for old titles they may have missed not owning a 360, all these things are good options when when you have just blown a few hundred $$$ on a console.

Impressive hold for 360. I'm as impressed by this as I am the EMEAA number. Are the cut price clearance skus still being sold or have they cleared those out completely?

Actually nothing dropped much at all this week, not even PSP.

I think Nintendo will be fine this Q4 in America and the major PAL markets (UK, Germany, France, Australia, Spain, etc), but Japan really has bottomed out, and I don't see much hope for recovery.  In Japan at least, I really do think we'll see the Wii successor in time for the 2011 holidays, probably with DQX alongside it (yes, still for Wii 1, not Wii 2 or 3DS). 

DKC and Wii Party should be pretty big this year, but even they're a clear step down from last year's 10-million-or-more-each Wii Sports Resort/Wii Fit Plus/NSMB Wii trifecta.  On the plus side, this year's "secondary" sellers (Galaxy 2, Metroid 5, Kirby's Epic Win, etc) blow last year (Punch Out, NPC series... uh, Excitebots?) out of the water.