It is amazing to think that the Wii is going this strong into its 5th Christmas.  I see a lot of haters out there, but the Wii has almost finished the traditional Nintendo 5-year life-cycle and it is still going strong.  There should never be talk about Wii being doomed again, if the Wii declines it is just a natural part of console life-cycle from this point on. 

With a $50 price-cut, the Wii is going to continue to fly off shelves in 2011.  Just imagine, the Wii will be selling for $150, but many stores will be marking it down in the $100-$130 range-- which will make the Wii cheaper than Kinect.  The Wii will do fine, as long as it solidifies its 2011 software-- which looks pretty slim at this point. I just hope the Wii 2 doesn't realease too far ahead of the new M$ and Sony consoles-- I don't want to see the Wii 2 be utterly dominated in the technology race again.

Until this generation Nintendo was always relatively similar in technology to the competitors.  I personally don't want to buy 3 consoles again, and I am hoping I can play top 3rd party games again on a Nintendo console once again.  Here's hoping to a more technologically sophisticated Wii-successor!

Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom floped :(

Dang the 360 came within 70k of its best selling week ever!

Damn, I can't believe Donkey Kong sold so much even though its franchise has showed little significance to hardware after Donkey Kong Country 3. It also shows similar sales to New Super Mario Bros. Wii in terms of total pre-order to first week sale ratio in America. This proves Donkey Kong Country Returns has similar but smaller proportional amount of potential buyers to New Super Mario Bros. Wii. If this is true, then next week's sale for Donkey Kong Country Returns should equal near 285,000. That's a pretty big drop, though, so hopefully it doesn't.

Those are some good points,but it's still hard for me to believe a single game will stop Wii from being down YoY.Guess I am a lost cause myself :P

And then they'll have something else to hate. This cycle'll never end, :D

Uh... no... I really could care less of your "forgiveness" it's pretty damn worthless, I didn't even get involved in this thread to discuss any of this mess since these threads always burn in flames, all I was discussing is the fact that PS3 and 360 are trending up, which we all seem to agree on, the only thing that seemed to rile Kowen up was that I said it was normal, and he started talking about some marketshare debate I could care less about.  Not really sure where your input comes into this anyway...

It's pretty obvious, I was correcting a mistake you made trying to paint me in a bad light, I suggest in future you look harder maxwell.

But no, it is not normal for a console in it's ffifth year to be trending up, do you know anything about console sales?

I'd say thats pretty normal when the consoles past years sales weren't anything spectacular, thats why matching those sales or even surpass it by a small margin its plausible.

Throw in heavy marketing and a new peripheral on the consoles "old" stage, and you got your trending up completely explained.

Now wanting consoles like DS and Wii to be up is an epic task, given both consoles past sales.

I dont disagree that it might be down YoY, my point is that it'll still have enough spark to win the holiday sales battle over the HD systems again next year. Come 2012, all 3 will be drastically down, as I fully suspect new home systems to be announced in 2012 for the 3 companies. I just feel that of the 3 Nintendo still has that one more big push (Zelda), where I feel that the HD systems have already thrown their full arsenal into the arena already.