Exactly.

Of course 360 will sell less than last year. Last year 360 had no next-gen competition (only PS2 that I PS2 sold more than the 360).

This is the first Christmas where you can actually buy Wii (if you look for it) and PS3 so I, like I said in these forums before, I think the 360 will sell less than last year (unless total sales increase a lot, but I doubt that)

I'm not going to blame it all on the weather, first we'll have to see this week's sales to see if the Wii sales recover. But Washington state had a bit more rain this previous Monday 12/3 than we usually get. Causing " Several miles of Interstate Five are still closed because the highway is under water." for example.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jW-BndswWuhgPAPXOK4Q6TCQsANQD8TBAM8G1

and bad enough to be declared a disaster area by Bush.

All in all, receiving in and then shipping back out the Wii from the North Bend shipping location would have been impacted at least somewhat. (I know my commute from work to home was.)

Since the DS isn't quite as supply bound as the Wii, the weather related shipping impact on it would be less than the Wii's. Where as, if the Wii doesn't get shipped, there's no in-store inventory to sell.

^Good post

To take what you said a step further, it is the severe federal budget deficit that is at the very core of our problems. A larger and larger % of our GDP is being used to pay the interest on our dept, which is suprisingly enough owned largely by the Chinese government. They hold our dept to stabilze there currency with ours since we are there biggest consumers.

Am I missing something?  Since when is China's GDP less than 5% of the U.S.?

hmm, those sales figures are interesting fpr different reason. 360 : excellent sales. Their home market + good selection of games + low entry price for arcade system. The huge problem is see now, is that maybe a big proportion of the systems sold are arcades one (as seems to indicate for example amazon charts). The ones in the knowledge (early customers) know that HDD equipped xbox is a must (premium or elite) as without you can't really benefit from downloadable content much. It also screw completely fr the future any attempt from a third party dev to make any usage of HDD, as not a big enough proportion of 360 owners would have one. this may be in the medium/ long term a crucial mistake as content streaming is the way to go for bigger and bigger games with hi-res texture and no loading times. It would be good to have the breakdown between the different 360 sku. wii : supplied constrained. This one is relying on hype alone (i'm one of those thinking mario galaxy would be just as good without the remote...), and i just hope it will miss his own train. $250 for such hardware is unbeleivable. Ps3 : sales are ok, but quite distant third. The main thing is that is has reduced the gap dramaticallly, not in terms of units, but in terms of %. it's outsold by 360 by 95k units, a huge number, but only outsold 2/3 in terms of ratio, which is much better than the previous months. 2007 holiday was lost anyway, the main thing is how much lost ground ps3 will have at the end of the holidays. the price is much less of an issue, but still a barrier for the lower income revenues or no revenues at all. Selection of games has improved a lot and now, the "ps3 has no games" point will be moot (AC, COD4, UT3, R&C, Uncharted represent a pretty solid lineup imo).

Two words : over indeptedness

 That was UK not US as far as I remember.

Well, either way, this is kinda trouble for the wii, if it has no supply now, how about for the rest of the year? The 360 and PS3 might outsell the wii in december because of this. Won't hurt the wii in the long run probably though.

Another thing people haven't realized when looking at the Wii shortage.

The PS2 is picking up a lot of sales from people searching in vain for a Wii. I've seen many folks snap one of those up. 6th gen is still in effect for another year as far as many buyers are concerned.

I'd say PS2 picks up more "can't find what I really want" settling sales than 360. DS may be getting some of that runoff too.

John Lucas