All Analyze forgot one major point of the Wii, When you able to get the female hooked on to a product, their spending power is alot greater any guys. I dont have to argue on this point, you guys just go look at your girlfriend, or wife and be honest how many stuff she purchased and only used a few times or never use it? The Answer would be "too many", this same goes with videogames. My sister and all the female I know that are hooked on the Wii, everyone of them is buying so much software that they dont even know why.

Also: if you are talking about hardcore gamers sustaining PS360 sales more, the truly hardcore gamers, the ones that buy a hundred games for a console over its lifespan or something, already have a PS3, 360, or both. The kind of gamers that really rally to the "hardcore" name are customers that you most likely already have

I think they mean the same kinda core loyalty that helped nintendo get through its dark years .... the kinda people who visit these sites and buy double to tripple the average user you know 20-30 games lifetime console..... I do just under 1 a month. 

People ignore the thing, that when people have more time to spend, they invest more into themselves.
When recession hits, people start to cut down their consuming until they get used to the new situation where they're in, after that, they start to spend money again.

If your primary form of entertainment is watching TV a few hours a day, you either watch more TV or find new form of entertainment/activity. Whether the entertainment/activity is games or not is a different matter, but it surely is one relatively cheap form. Basically the recession just plays into Nintendos pocket for them trying to introduce new people to games.

Absolutely.

The best thing about this generation is going to be when it's over and the dust has settled, those who made these fickle arguements will have to face the reality that they were DEAD WRONG.

I can't wait to hear their excuses!

nj5 i would put price saturation as the main reason for sagging sales. not economy nor 360 price reduction.

reasoning - notice the yoy sales stopped being plus after the year anniversary of the drop. ps3 actually held steady through the year. people seem to forget that because the competition just did better. you cant expect a system to sell better for no reason demand doesnt work that way.

You'd think that... but most of the industry has just continued to pretend that the Wii doesn't exist, or make up various excuses for why its sales success doesn't count. For example, "Wii won because of casuals", "All the real games are on PS360", "Metacritics says blah blah blah", etc.

People just believe what they want to believe, and almost no one will ever admit they were wrong. No matter how stupid the things they said.

@Sullla: Yeah, they keep pretending even afterwards, when they explain that recession hit the market, at the same time there's record revenue, and that's why everything happened like it did.

 A lot of analysts made wrong guesses, it always happen. They don't need to excuse for what they think.

Anyway, no one is commenting on the quote I like the most, in relation to the Animal Crossing review "AC is a product of the apathy already chronicle of Nintendo, very certain in its strictly commercial movements, but each day more far away of its real and faithful niche. Remember: the crowd mainstream is mayfly. Be conscious". It's fun the see people defending Nintendo while what it is doing now with the Wii is making eeeeeeeeeasy money. But again, all are valid and subjective opinions.