Wow, PC IS NOT A CONSOLE!!!!  If it were why don't we track the sales of PC. Because clearly PC's have sold more than all the consoles combined and makes this whole discussion and this website void.  Gaming did not move to the PC. It was always there from day 1.  There were no "gaming PC".  

NES's main competition was the SMS and the 7800.  All three of these systems are very compareable when you look at the specs.  

 SMS was launched after the NES, as was the 7800, they were in response to the NES's success against the gaming PC's, gaming PC's were systems like the Commodore 64 which was where gaming moved to once the console crash occured

We don't track PC sales, because theat ageis long over, NES won, but at the time when NES launched it was facing the much more accepted gaming PC's, consoles at that time were thought to be destined to crash over and over

7800 was test run to the public in 1984, a year before the NES was released in the US.

You cannot compare the hardware sales of the NES to home computers or PC's because people buy these machines for things other than gaming. Video game consoles are designed to only play videogames. (This has changed some now though) So, the NES brought gaming back to the television and this is reason why consoles are so popular now. Why does that make you think that Wii will pass the PS2 in sales?

 Yeah and it was shelved in favor of their PC endeavors, until the NES proved consoles could succeed

Not these PC's these PC's were built as alternatives to game consoles, in fact the commodore 64's price drop is is considered one of the reasons for the gaming crash, in fact the Commodroe could be hooked up to a TV

Again... Why does that make you think that Wii will pass the PS2 in sales? 

Yes, I know you could hook the C-64 up to a TV. I still have one.

 The fact that hardware strength never decides a console's success

Never.

wiis competition is to good, PS2 destroyed its competition early on.

Unless this gen we see 300 million hardware units sold overall, it could happen if other region economies climb at a even faster pace but wiis weak hardware means short life so no.

I don't see the Wii passing the PS2. For several years of the PS2's life the only competition was the Gamecube (and maybe some other system I can't think of the name of that really really REALLY bombed). The Wii has a surging PS3 and a 360 that had a years head start on it. Also, the demand for the Wii will taper off, it will not sell out within hours of going on shelves for years to come.

I know that the Wii fan boys will disregard graphics, but if you look at FF10 graphics and then FF12 graphics, there is a big jump there. There is no reason not to expect something different in the graphical capabilities of the PS360 compared to the Wii. And by then both the PS360 will have dropped prices significantly and what are people going to buy, a game system that puts out good graphics for $100-$150 or a game system that puts out jaw dropping graphics for $50-$100 more.

Pretty pictures will sell games and systems compared to what else is out there. To go back to the FF10 and FF12 analogy, if two games came out at the same time and one had FF12 graphic pictures on the back and the other had FF10 graphic pictures, the "casual" gamer would buy the FF12 game because it would look like the developer put more time and effort into the game.

I am sure you wish that was true but it aint gonna happen and the FF analogy fails big time cause it´s not a casual game so no casuals would buy it no mutter how good or bad the graphics are.