If analysts only have what they hear in the mouth of the companies to make their predictions ....I think they are being paid for nothing . Plus they are fanboys ...I also remember Fils Aimee saying their would do their best to reach 1 million in NA by 31 dec ....the analysts did choose the declarations they found interesting and the ones that hyped the market about good numbers and forgot about actually researching how many units Nintendo was shipping ...

We need bunkum in here. Analysts fok up total.

Well there are rumours of a possible recount, and Nintendo did alude to shipping 2m in NA by the end of the year. I know they had wrist strap issues but still...

There is so much wrong with this statement I don't know where to start. 1) The Japan market you said Sony and Nintendo would split 60-70 percent of the market? LMAO. M$ doesn't even make up 5% of the market there, who else is taking up the rest? 2) 360 has barely sold 8 million consoles...this may be an estimate, but according to all figures available, it's not adding up to the 10.4 million M$ is claiming. 3) You guys aren't looking at Wii worldwide sales objectively. Wii is going to be beating PS3, 360 in Japan and Europe. The US is questionable as to who will be selling the most. We'll have to wait until the end of January to see how units are selling. Since PS3 is likely to be in ready supply, the Wii may still be selling out, it's hard to tell who will sell the most. 4) You're over estimating 360s success in Europe. If you compare ratios, Europe buys half as many 360s as the Americas, but for Wii that ratio is higher. Also PS2 according to quite a few reports is actually more popular in Europe now than it was in the whole US. I waws in disbelief, but apparently they sold 40 million PS2s in Europe and I think only 37 million in US (according to NPD, if we add Canada at 10% it's probably 40 million). So Sony has a really large base there. 5) Like I have said all along, I think we are actually going to see lead changes this generation, and it will end up being very close overall.

You're a tard, I'm one of the most objective people on this site. I support all 3 systems, I simply call it how I see it. You're not even looking at worldwide sales. Being completely unobjective. Wii will be able to outsell both PS3 and 360 in Europe and Japan. *If* they are still having production problems it may not happen in Europe for the first month or 2. According to Nintendo they shipped more than their target goal of 4 million. Again, according to them. We agree on a lot here though. Which is why I don't see why you're calling me a fanboy. Cause I'm not. I just don't cut any system slack, Sony is my favorite in reality, but I'm not gonna purposely pump them, cause I frankly think it's gonna take a while for them to catch up. I agree that Wii will lose any advantage once HDTV becomes the standard, last year 2006 was the first year HD outsold the Tube. Still, a majority of households only have a Tube right now, it will be a few years before the majority of households have a HD. It takes several years of being the dominant seller to overcome the last gen. Just like DVD/VHS or PS2 to PS1. I also agree that this gen will end up very close. Another point I agree with you on. I scrutinize the M$ numbers so much because they have built in such a large desparity between what they have "shipped/sold" to retailers and what the info available to us from sales reports. It's such a large gap. 2 million consoles difference between the numbers. But...wait and see. Once PS3 and Wii start pulling shipped numbers out of their arse, they will also be greater than what's reported sold. All the manufacturers to this to inflate their numbers.

I don't get some people. The 360 did just great. Why? It sold more than the Wii and PS3 COMBINED in December. That's pretty dang good. Will it do that next month? I'm primarily interested in how well software for all the systems did - what is the tie ratio now for Wii and PS3? How much software did the 360 sell (easily over 3m?) As for the Worldwide sales, this December, you people are moaning about sales in Europe being mediocre. Lets look at it this way: US : 1.1m+ Units Sold ( we don't have an actually exact number, is it 1.19m or is it 1.10m?) Europe: ? (How much? Could easily be 600k or more) Japan: 100k+ Other Markets: 250k or so? Everyone keeps forgetting the other markets. The markets are: Austrailia South Korea Hong Kong Taiwan South America South Africa Yes, they might not be big markets, but for some reason no one ever considers any of those markets. Why? The PS3 isn't in Austrailia, so it's just Wii and 360....And the 360 already sold over 100k by the Summer. Could it be upto 200k or more after December? Also, MS reported (yes MS), that it expected to hit 1m units in the UK for the 360, and nearly 700k in France. Thats 1.7m units in just 2 European countries - What about the other 20? Couldn't they atleast double that number?