Sweet - that's what I like to hear :)

Its almost a certain. 3 months = another 2 million units worldwide, which is not even *close* to demand. And as its been stated - its a catapulting effect. The more people that buy it, the more people that are exposed to it... and the more people that fall in love with it (Wii Sports for now). Just you wait until Wii Sports 2 comes out - more games, deeper games, online play. I really hope Cricket comes out for the Wii sometime - I can see huge potential in it for that.

Microsoft downgraded their plans to ship 13-15 million units down to 12 million units shipped up until June, compare to the Wii at 9 million units shipped. The 360 was also out a year earlier.

And it doesnt matter if people who bought the Wii on launch are bored with the software list right now, they still count as a number on the install base. Its not like they would magically return the console. Nintendo is building a userbase right now with the mainstream audience(lapsed gamers, non-gamers, casual gamers) and the software lineup this quarter reflects that(Mario Party, Warioware, Cooking Mama, Wii Sports, Wii Play). After all, if you build your install base, the third part support will come.

That has nothing to do with whether the Wii can surpass the XBOX 360 this year.....

Well ,after Nintendo it is only a matter of when not if .... And I agree with them .Wii sales are a bit overstimated in the main page here but they are without doub way higher than the ones of the X360 launch and it will cut the difference in userbase each month in at least 250 000 consoles ....if the X360 sells very well it could maintain its lead until october or so ,if it sells as last year in July or August we could see the Wii getting real close . As for Sony I dont know ,I am pretty sure the 20K weekly of late for Japan is only a temporal situation due to the weakest 3 weeks of the year and the absence of new games but I dont know how many it will sell weekly once the games start shipping regularly .And in the US I dont know how much it will in these months outside christmas ...at least until thursday when the data of NPD appears .150K or lower would be disastrous numbers according to what some are saying of the console "collecting dust in the shelves !" ,200k would be mediocre but akin to the usual sales of the X360 last year ,250k would be a good number ,300k or beyond would be very good numbers and a progression of 5-6 million for the year .So it depends wich data arrives ....in any case until the console launches in Europe and the software starts to ship regularly it is difficult to say .

I think Nintendo will catch up Microsoft in Nov 07' to Feb 08' time frame. However, they won't gain a significant lead until after that. The America Halo 3 effect can be offset by strong sales for Wii in Japan throughout October-January. End March (-1 million for each if N.A. data is not in line with NPD): Wii 6-8 million 360 10-11.5 million PS3 3-5 million End June: Wii 9-11million 360 11.5-13 million PS3 5-8 million End September: Wii 12-14 million 360 13-14.5 million PS3 7-10 million End December: Wii 17-19 million 360 16-18 million PS3 10-13 million

Wii sports is a very good game that becomes boring very quick. That said, evey time someone comes over my house, they want to play Wii sports. This includes my friends and thier siblings, but also includes their parents. The day i got my Wii, I had my and my friends parents hogging the game. My friends parents wanted to buy one immediately, but they're sold out. My friend, who was waiting for a PS3, decided to buy a 360 and a Wii. The thing about the Wii is its cheap and simplistic. Its all of the things that I ever wanted in a video game but never knew. But for $250, I had no problem buying one as a gift for my bro. Nintendo has created anew genre of games that appeal to an entirely different audience, one that was never in the market for a game console but now may be.

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It means that Microsoft is anticipating lower than expected demand for the 360. I should mention that Nintendo plans to ramp up production by 1 million units a month in April, bringing the grand total of the Wii units shipped of 9 million units through June. Microsoft is only shipping 1-2 million more units in the same time frame at 12 million units shipped through June.