Hmm..... What does it matter though if PS3 this year is tracking ahead of X360's sales in 2009?

All I care about is if the X360 wins 2010 over PS3, which I heard it has a good chance to do. That will secure 2nd place for a long time, practically until the next gen starts.

...And yet Wii is still outpacing the PS2.

You gotta look at it in relative terms. Wii is in decline, but that's because its numbers were SO insanely high that now it has nowhere to go but down. Conversely, PS3's numbers were very weak initially, so it's much easier for the PS3 to have higher YoY numbers.

At the end of the day, Wii has still outsold its nearest competitor by 30 million. So whether or not it's a "fad" or a "craze," it's still a craze that won this generation.

Well said..

I don't get this logic of many people predicting/hoping for short term decline for Wii when many of these same people turn around and then say "look! Now Sony and MS have their own motion controls, which will help to eclipse the Wii!!" well, what the hell people.. You can't have it both ways. Either Wii was indeed a "fad" and the craze of motion controls is in decline (meaning Kinect and Move will also fail), OR in fact Wii is not a fad but merely a console and motion controls are still popular, giving Kinect and Move a chance to succeed as well.

I don't get why people seem to think Wii imitators will be a success 4 years into the game, when even the ACTUAL Wii console is currently in decline.

Not really much to argue with. Brand perception plays a roll. But I mostly blame software for poor sales. I mean if the 360 had major exclusives like the PS3 often gets in Japan. We could naturally assume the 360 would be in bigger demand there.

Maybe MS selling Japanese games to the Japanese looked to them like trying to sell ice to Eskimos, not even a cultural thing, maybe it just looked awkward to them. Maybe also some Japanese gamers thought it was presumptuous, or at least shallow, by MS to suddenly release a lot of Japanese games and pretending to have understood Japanese gaming culture. IMVHO there's not a single reason, but a combination of many.

Well the best selling 360 games in Japan are Japanese games. They are either exclusive or timed exclusives. MHFO is climbing the 360's Japanese charts fast. May surpass Halo 3 next week.

Japanese consumers don't seem that complex. If MS would get a hold of more Japanese exclusives (from popular developers) and get them regularly, it could really help console sales there. Even timed exclusivity helps.

That would be hellish crazy to see. It would make the Xbox 360 sales quite impressive in any context. However if the Kinect accessory can broaden their market then I can see their having a genuine increase in both content sales (games) and console sales as they can leverage existing consoles better and sell consoles to people who never had them.

All consoles are doing great in my opinion...and Wii isn't in trouble!

I say this every week and no one listens so I guess everyone will have to wait and see this Holiday...Wii has had no big games besides for Mario Galaxy 2 so when games actually begin to come out on the Wii it will start selling at #1 again besides the Holiday has always been Nintendo's best time for sales since the Wii came out in 2006. The Wii has a totally different base then that of the P.S.3 and 360...when P.S.3 and 360 gets a big game people will buy it for that game while with the Wii someone may have liked a game that came out back in February and choice to wait to get a Wii until the Holidays instead of buying one right away. Also the Wii brand alone has become a very strong name that many people notice as a family console and will continue to be the big thing to get kids to parents. I also think that Nintendo has its strongest Holiday line up yet with the Wii.

ps3 in trouble. xbox 360 once again on top ,can"t wait for halo reach, fable 3.

ps3 can"t beat xbox 360 . ps3 in trouble. halo reach and fable 3 are so good