Huh.......Why do you need a hhd for games?

Well, it's more a case of the Wii heading towards 360 sales from where it was than the other way around.

I'd wait and see whether the Wii price drop raises it's weekly average back up again before getting too excited.

But it is funny to see them so close when before the Wii seemed untouchable. Even stranger to see the PS3 where it is.

It's mayhem, really.

DLC. It's not necessary, but you get what I'm saying, no?

Totally agreed. Some time ago it was impossible to think the Wii would be in this position, normally the Wii outsells BOTH the 360 and the PS3 combined.

@Huaxiong: So... A "casual gamer" gets Modern Warfare 2 with Arcade and a "hardcore" gamer Modern Warfare 2 and Elite? Gotcha.
Wii and PS3 both have internal memory for DLC, so obviously 360 Arcade is in all alone in the casual market.

I don't have an arcade, so I'd like some clarification.  Does the built in memory in the arcade model and the use of a memory card allow the downloading of content?  Also, how many retail games can't be played without a hd? 

256 MB of internal memory (Arcade) is no where near sufficient for downloading content. Also, I meant DLC for the games, not the games themselves, though if you want to install, it becomes an issue. I could be wrong, but casuals would buy the arcade with Arcade volume discs along with family games, while Hardcore gamers buy the elite with games like Halo 3, Gears of War, COD etc. because of the sufficient space of the HDD for DLC, as well as downloading games off the XBL Arcade service rather than buying them in disc volumes.

The Wii suffered from the small storage space problem for a while, till Nintendo brought over SD sticks (I think they're called that) so you can DL onto them rather than the internal memory.

As for the Arcade vs. Elite purchases, I cleared that up in the previous post.

@Huaxiong: So the "casual gamers" aren't buying Elite with Arcade Volume discs and family games?

Why would they? It wouldn't make any sense to me. It's possible they buy family games, and download the arcade games off the XBLA service, but I think buying the arcade volumes would make more sense for casuals.