LOL whatever.  Guess you're one of the people that can't handle it.

@ Neos

LOL.  too bad the pic is all pixelated.

 r u saying mario is gay? or wut?

i know, it makes the kitty even more sadder =(

 why are you quoting me?! leave me out of this lol =P

No I made this thread because of threads like: "Microsoft Xbox 360 at 18 million, sucks everywhere except America/Britain", "Microsoft domination starts in", and "To all trespassers: Get the fudge out.".  Threads that are either off topic but placed in here to troll about sales or simply people tired of the trolling because of sales.  I couldn't care less about sales to be honest because the 360 is already at a point where it has moved enough software that developers will continue to put great games on the system.

 Easy.

Think that settles that. I mean it's why the PS2 won last generation.

Also why PC gaming is still around.

Ninjabread man decides who has the best games. =P 

 LOL.  Coming from the person who goes around threads and trolling/flamebaiting the console wars most of the time, that was priceless.  Thanks for the laugh.

*looks at website. Looks at post. Looks at front page. Looks at post.*

So uh...why are you here then? I couldn't care less about flowers, and thusly I don't post on "Perennials, Herbs & flowers message board". This is a sales site. So if you don't care about sales, why are you posting here as opposed to I dunno, IGN, Gamefaqs, or any of the other hundreds of message boards that are about the games themselves rather than the sales of said games?

There's one legitimate reason to care about sales: future trends.

If a game or console sells well, it portends more games of that ilk or more games in general on that system.

For me in particular, I've been drawn back into console gaming specifically by the burgeoning (cough) "non game" games, such as Wii Sports and Endless Ocean. Having the Wii sell well means, for my sake, more of these types of games.

Consider Halo, as another example. Consider the ramifications if Halo 1 had not sold well. Let me list them!

1) We likely wouldn't have a Halo 2 or Halo 3
2) The Xbox would have sold significant worse than it did, because Halo was clearly its flagship title
3) The Xbox 360 may not exist as a result of 2
4) We'd have significantly fewer FPS on the market, because Halo was the breakout console hit for FPS. As a great example, it's quite likely Bioshock would never have been made, because it apparently was just barely given the green light even in this FPS-hungry environment.

There are lots more, of course. But the point is that success for a game, a console, or a genre has effects on the future of gaming. That is the real reason to be concerned with sales.

Legend is absolutely correct, however, that many just turn it into some bizarre competition. It's particularly interesting to see Nintendo fans who do not like casual games gloating over the Wii's success; it's quite likely that the Wii's success will have little effect on the type of games they personally like (still some effect, as Galaxy/TP/etc. are still selling better than their counterparts on the GC thus far, thus ensuring that Nintendo's strength in these "hardcore" areas will continue to grow), but they don't seem to care as long as Nintendo is winning.

Yes, I troll/flamebait.  You haven't even posted enough or been here long enough to make that assumption.