You are basing your fact on Kinect adventures selling as much as Wii play? 

Nintendo is maintaining a leadership of both territories, the handhheld and home consoles, so they're in the equivalent of Genesis and Gamegear period of competition. This means they'll have competition, but whenever one goes down the other goes up. When Nintendo lost home console leadership, they gained a monopoly in handhelds.

Right now Nintendo is about to lose their leadership in handhelds to iOS, so I expect their next home console to be so groundbreaking it will reward them a monopoly.

@OP fun thread

Most of what I think has already been said, so I just have one thing to mention:

Even though I am loving my PS3 at the moment and would definitely prefer a PS4 over a Xbox720, I MUST SAY that if MS launches the 720 in a year or so and it completely destroys the PS3, then I would be seeeeriously tempted to pick up the console. 

One problem with MS doing this is that a game needs a colossal budget for it to make games like Uncharted, Killzone, GT (lets hope for 6 eh) Final Fantasy etc.  LOOK dated. Publishers might be a little reluctant to invest such large amounts of money for a small install base while the PS3 will be selling for $99 and become the hottest thing on the market.

I think MS could be walking into a trap.

They also should consider counting every cellphone sold as a video game on the main page, since they too play games!

Angry Birds on the iPhone is as much of a videogame as New Super Mario Bros. Wii is on the Wii.

If you don't like it, go get some tissues and cry about it.

Well, actually, Nintendo was largely unrivaled in handhelds ever since 1990, with the GB having proved itself to be here to stay at that point. Nothing else came close to it throughout big N's years of home console dominance.

But the late 90s, although still the biggest seller, GB relevance was really fading, and it didn't recover massively until 1998 with the release of the GBC and Pokemon outside of Japan.

There is no correlation between Nintendo's success in the two markets. Both were up 1989 - 1995, both were (more or less) down 1996 - 1998, one was up and the other down 1998 - 2006, and both are up 2006 - present.

Next gen I don't see Nintendo winning for home consoles. The userbase Nintendo targeted this gen isn't the type that buys a new console each gen right away.

3DS will outsell the PSP2 though.

iPhone is a fucking phone with a large amount of shovelware apps (and like 3 good apps) not a gaming console. I don't get how people call it a handheld gaming system. 

Why stop there? lets put pc up there to. 

Please do, I want to see PC Solitaire and Minesweeper at the rightful spot on top of the videogames sold charts.

To be honest, I would really like to see their raw numbers for shits and giggles.