Frazier noted that the only platforms to see a month-on-month increase during December were the 3DS and DS, "which is highly unusual since typically all platforms enjoy a lift in the biggest month at retail

so PS3 and Wii both are lower than Nov. figures.

I'm just curious what the Wii and PS3 REALLY sold this NPD. If the 360 had a 46% market share with only 1.7 million sold, then that means the Wii + PS3 = less than 2 million combined. Relative to what we were expecting, these are pretty bad #'s across the board. Just crazy that mostly everyone did they holiday shopping in the last week on November.

maybe some rich oligarch in russia or so bought 1 million xbox 360s just because he can? or to build a big 360 with 1 milion small ones?

Seems like...

Wii: ~1m
PS3: ~900k (up yoy)

So Wii is at most 860k and PS3 is at most 900k. Wow...

Want 3ds, mk7 and SML3D numbers, and Zelda if possible.

Pretty bad, for VG credibility ...
The only explanation is that we are undertracking the 360 in Europe AND Microsoft has overshipped it .. stuffing the channels perhaps, the strong demand back in Nov might tricked them into it.

Disappointing numbers all around.

You'd almost want to believe NPD screwed up and provided the November report in error, rather than the industry was that far down.

Well the Euro wasn't the best idea ever really... they've already broken all the rules they said they were never to break (loaning out money to crap countries) and think about it, in just a decade, in just a part of our lifetimes, the Euro was invented and already falling apart.  Germany is the only country that doesn't suck that is part of the Euro.  Even France is getting downgraded.  Germany alone cannot hold up all of Europe.  They don't even like their position as they have rejected many of the suggestions the other weaker countries have made (aka please empty your banks Germany). 

But yes, as an economy, we see Europe as one now because of the Euro.  The English speaking countries we kind of see as seperate, since they are in many ways with the land divide, non Euro, etc.  The one Europe thing is a great idea, but most Europeans would rather combine their might in spite of the USA, rather than for themselves.  Hence why they all have their own agendas and why most financial analysts don't think the Euro will recover well. 

Also, keep in mind, unemployment in a bad USA economy is the norm for a good Euro economy.  Euro countries always have high unenployment even when things are "good" but now, unenomployment is so bad in most Euro countries, its more than double, and in same cases, triple, even quadruple what it is here in USA.  I think things will get worse for both America and Europe in the next few months, since all that "holiday" hiring was smoke and mirrors.  Also, a totally united Europe is difficult when you include countries that are barely first world. 

860k is last month... this month is more like a little over 1m for Wii.