I'm just showing you how stupid it is to try spin things saying the 360 has only shipped 9 Million a year because of the failure rate. (A failure rate which is unconfirmed and taken from people in the street.) The only people who know the real failure rates are Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.

It's annoying. And wrong. And stupid. And I'm surprised you can get away with it without moderation really... I've seen people banned for similar comments. Not surprising though, when you look at who you are and what you're trolling.

leaving the console market is probably not the best stategy for nintendo.  i mean, even the game cube was a profitable business venture and so is the wii.  okay yeah, the amount of rev/profit is coming down but it still makes them money.  i'm sure their next console will as well.  i'm about as bitter as a guy can be against nintendo but i have to give one thing to them...they are good at business.

on another note: does anyone have nintendos shippng figures for last year?  useing vgchartz 2009 numbers (21.8M) with nintendo's shipping forcast (17.5M) that puts a projected decline of 19.77% YoY but those years don't quite line up (dec/dec vs march/march).  given that they have  been down around 20% YoY before the big jump from last years price cut and NSMB Wii that seems optmistic about this years holiday sales.

my wii broke twice...200% failure rate!!

I'm sorry but a survey from a reliable source is much more accurate than the opinion on the matter of "19 year old male from United Kingdom" as it says in your profile.

If you're not happy with that survey, blame whoever made it and posted it as worldwide gaming news, not me.

And as I think you can understand, broken consoles are often replaced (not the total amount for various reasons), and those replacements come included in the shipments. With a 54.2% failure rate I'd guess just a couple million of 360's are replacement units.

End of offtopic for me.

And facts about how many units Microsoft sell is more reliable than some random 22 year old Nintendo fan from Zimbabwe trying to downplay how many 360's have been sold.

If they ARE replacement units... It doesn't matter. They are still shipped consoles. Get over it. Cya. Take your trolling elsewhere.

lolburger!!!

Thing is, microsoft doesn't sell the total ammount of units they declare in shipments. As I said, many of them are replacements (everyone I know with a 360 had Rod issues and got new replacement units, or fixed ones that just RoD'd again to get replaced).

According to the failure rate it would be like half of the shipments, but that's a very huge number. Maybe just 3 to 4 millions in the maximum.

Bye, cya. It was nice to meet you.

To get back on topic and ignore the obvious annoyance...

Someone correct me if I'm wrong on any of these figures.

Wii is currently down YoY by about 300k.

This means they expect Wii to be down YoY by a total of about 3 Million by March 2011, yes?

Anything can happen now.

Wii is down because it's uniqueness of motion controls got adopted by others, despite being late and the software available being a little lackluster I think it will cause some damage. Also the console is aging faster than others due to the weak hardware.

Commenting on the other consoles, 360 is getting good momentum cause of the slim model and reach, and PS3 past years sales weren't particularly exciting, so being up yoy is a no brainer.

Yet, the 3rd place is just glued with Sony now. No way it will pass 360 imo. Wii despite being down yoy by 3 millions, will  still be tracking above the PS2 right? That would set a new record for that fastest selling home console one more year I'd guess.

LOL Nice once carl.

Mr.Metralha, you're coming out with some ridiculous crap, MS replace or fix broken consoles, so again WRONG in thinking 10% actually go replace theres, it's nothing like that. Neither is there any kind of 10% failure rate these days.