If we listen to Iwata, were WSR to make an impact on hardware sales, it won't be seen until September NPD. He said in his investor Q&A that hardware increases from evergreen titles don't hit until weeks 6-8. Q2:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/090731qa/index.html

Furthermore, Wii sales need to double or triple to get back to 2008 levels, and Iwata basically ruled that out as a possibility for WSR.

NSMBW will be the biggest hardware driver for Wii for the rest of the year, and a cumulative effect of NSMBW, WSR and WFP could somewhat restore sales.

NSMB DS charting in the top 10 with over 100K in sales, in it's 39th month on the market, is a great sign for NSMBW. The demand for 2D Mario games is obviously astrological.

EA needs to shluff everything but it's sports division. Nintendo has 6 of the top 10 games of the month, and the other 4 belong to Peter Moore. I hope Bobby Kotick is sweating.

360 could beat Wii in both August and September NPD with Madden and Halo. Those games provide a single-month bump every time. I do think interest in both Madden and Halo is way down, but 360 isn't behind by much right now.

Impressive 360 numbers! Only 50k behind the Wii.

PS3 numbers are low, hopefully something turns things around for the holiday season.

Impressive 360 sales relatively speaking. PS3 (everything PlayStation actually) and Wii are doing poorly YoY.

PS3 is down 45% YoY and Wii is down 55%. Hard to spin those numbers but I'm sure someone will try.

Awful performance all around.

Wii did terrible. DS did worse than last year.

PS3 and PSP are being hammered badly.

Xbox 360 was unimpressive since it still did worse than last year, even after all those price cuts.

If Madden doesn't push the 360 over the Wii then Halo ODST will. The PS3 will probably beat the Wii in September too after the price cut.

This industry is not recession proof ... sorry ... those numbers show a hit across the board.

The 360 hardware sales weren't that impressive last year, and they're the only one that had a price cut in the last year, so basically they're keeping their head above water.

I'd say we are about spot on in the hardware department. A little bit of over tracking for the Wii but still in a respectable percentage. But remember NPD isn't THE sales but they do have a better percentage than us. Meaning don't go for exacts here. But great tracking on really everything hardware wise.

Software is well poor. Aside from WSR everything else is depressing. NCAA way down. I think it has to do with the lower sales of the PS2 version and neither the 360 or PS3 versions picking up the slack. Then Fight Night Round 4 has poor sales in it's first full month out. Really other than WSR, the software was dominated by long running Wii and DS titles. Give the others a break considering nothing else big launched but you would still hope for maybe a long running PS3 or 360 title to have had some decent sales.

That's almost a given assuming it has a similar impact of Halo 3, but that won't happen at all.