The Wii is picking up more speed and will end up being number 1 of this gen without much doubt.

But :

- Sales of the others consoles are not slowing down as the Wii sales pick up, they are actually picking up too ( when the PS2 started to pick up steam, the Gamecube and Xbox sales started to tank).

- So far despite being number 1 the Wii is actually getting less multiplatforms games/third parties games than the Gamecube was getting last gen.

What this means and what the fact that the HD consoles sales are not slowing down seems to indicate is that the Wii doesn't compete as much with the HD consoles as you would think it does.

It does competes heavilly for the first console buy,  for many people if they can only afford one console now, the Wii is the choice.

But as time pass and they see more and more decent games than they would like to play not being ported to their platform  some of them start considering a second console purchase and I believe when this gen is over and we look back at the number we will realize that this is the gen with the most dual console owners ( a Wii and another HD console).

 What is still in the air is how much games for their HD consoles and how much games for their Wii these dual console owners will buy and is it possible that despite being 2nd and 3rd Sony and Microsoft( in no particular order, am not trying to offend fan boys) might end up moving more software than Nintendo...

Edit: Fixed the Gamecube/N64 confusion

:P you might want to change N64 to Gamecube ...

and yes this gen is very different from last. The cost of new hardware devlopment and the fact that the Wii is so different to the competition means that things should be interesting this gen.

Looking back at history the next-gen push is usually made by either a losing company trying to gain marketshare or the top seller hitting saturation point. As such i wouldn't be surprised to see Nintendo keeping Wii alive as long as possible, while SONY and M$ are likly to continue support for the HD consoles due to the sheer cost of devloping a new console... it's entirly possible for this gen to last 7 - 10 yrs ...

as emntioned I think you mean game cube instead of N64.

mmm,,,yea this gen is very odd seems no one is slowing down,,

It's early yet.

Either way, the Wii will probably "win."

I doubt the extended fanbase who buys the Wii will have much interest in an HD console.

Outside of our gaming world, in the public(ultra casual) eye, the Wii is seen as the "best" console brand.

It's also affordable.

What I guess I'm saying is, the Wii has the potential to turn into the DS for 3rd party developers, if it keeps this sales pace up for a couple more years and the software sales scale well with the increased userbase.

Don't count out the PS3 or 360 as tanked consoles just yet.

It's not like their "massive" libraries are full of shock and awe at this point.

The Wii is a threat to the well being of the HD consoles, otherwise there would be no vast Wii-hater conspiracy on the internet.

Since no games that sell massively on the Wii will go on the PS360 and vice versa, then it is safe to say that in this generation, all the consoles will coexist....

You can't deny the success of the Wii, but saying it will kill any other console is a fanboy's dream....

I stopped reading when he typed N64 twice. Once is an error, twice is intentional.

I moved from PC GAMER to XBOX360 gamer. Grafix cards are to expensive those days...

Lol, N64 10-year plan confirmed!~

@OP: just come back in a couple of years. After you discover the bubble didn't actually burst, you'll see the third-party utopia that is Wii.

The problem is, how often does the typical consumer consider buy a second console? Consumers tend not to buy new hardware for a long time, lest there will be more "stuff cluttering the house". The TC ought not to assume that everyone is so materialist that they must buy all the best of the best hardware out in the market (that includes HDTVs if their current SDTV is working fine and is not crocked).

@ Op Game Cube or N64 same thing, lol. Both of those consoles flopped big time. The Nintendo Wii has done very well to turn things around for Nintendo in such a short amount of time.