Wii, in a down year, easily beat 360 in its peak year.  People like to talk about growth, but sustaining sales and profit is equally important.  I think Nintendo should hang on to this generation for as long as it can-- 2 more years would be great.  I think Nintendo has enough momentum to be the home console leader for at least 1 more year.  The PS2 also went through a down year before it re-peaked after a price-cut in 2005.  Wii 2011, with a price-cut and a strong enough library, may be able to top 2010 numbers.  Hopefully Nintendo has negociated out a cheaper way to manufacture the Wii so that it can still maintain a similar profit-margin even with a price-cut.

Im not trying to turn this into an argument but I would like to point out that Xbox 360 / Wii likely pushed similar profit and revenue numbers for the year (excluding the unfortunate results of the currency fluxations and subsequent write-offs). So neither is really a reason to disparage the other, both did well in their respective ways and even doing equally well doesn't diminish their overall good work and the subsequent good results they achieved.

How exactly do they have control?  They were still behind the PS3 (which actually surprises me with the great holiday season they have had), even with the Slim and the Kinect.  And we still have financial reports to come out, which may show PS3 is even more ahead than it is now.  I mean before last quarter's report came out, people thought the PS3 was getting crushed by the 360 Slim and Move had little to no effect on sales.  That turned out to be wrong.  Now, I will admit MS should have better January sales with the recent launch of Kinect, but I still don't see them having control of the HD market.

Considering Wiis are cheaper to produce and Nintendo sells more first party software, which brings in more money, I should think not.

Don't disagree with your post, though, just pointing that out.

Don't underestimate the dark money gobbling side of Xbox Live!

Kinect is huge..... And they have a good run right now in hollidays.... But ps3 will be back with little big planet 2 and killzone 3..... But the reason im saying control is if you look back to june area, ps3 had around a 3 million console lead for the year on xbox, now its dead even.... Il tell ya one thing though, i really hope move takes off this year, cause i have it with the sports champions, heavy rain and the fight lights out and there really great.... Hopefully killzone will push some of the move stuff.... But if the killzone with move is like mag with move i wont like it.... Sony will have 2011 HD