I stand by this statement.

Will definately be an interesting holiday season.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, its the software, stupid (a play on the phrase its the economy, stupid)

@jonop

& PSP too, right

^DS destroys all that ever was and ever will be. As for the rest of the sales, they were good, it's very interesting for me to see the Wii down only 9%, I expected like 20%... Wii is really brining n many consumers to the market. PS3 should have a hold over 360 at least until the years end. Even then, with the great line-up in 2010, I still expect P3 to sell above the 360. Also... who in hell is still buying PS2's?! It just won't die!

Seems that the Wii followed Japanese drops in being very very minimal. Definitely not because of time there because both weeks had the price drop for the full week. Even more so after an above average increase for a price drop it sustained well. It's quite possible the price drop was a little more "necessary" than some have thought including me.

Nevertheless a very strong hold for the Wii which is good as it starts to get some of it's big software around the world in the weeks to come. PS3 also held up quite well still being able to be over the 200,000 mark. Once again just like Wii it's a great hold as it's big software starts to come out over the next few weeks too. As I said before we may not see PS3 or Wii drop below 200,000 for the rest of the year which is quite positive.

For the rest PSP fell a little harder than I thought it would but still being very competitive. DS as always stays strong and still within range of last year's numbers which is simply incredible considering how big sales were last year. 360 although falling off the mark a little bit, considering the situations it is holding up very well. Like PS3 and Wii this week was crucial in "getting by" as the next few weeks are going to be huge software oriented weeks.

Next week will be interesting to see what effects if any Uncharted 2 has and how Wii survives in its 3rd week. Then of course software sales of notable titles such as Brutal Legend, Uncharted 2, and Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympics.

By then software will be out and it'll be the holidays

@ioi

if you have time.....can you please give us a general view of what PSP GO did this week?

PSP did good this week but I think it might still end up down by quite a lot for the whole of the year. I hope i'm wrong though.

i wanna see xbox360 sales increase with forza 3. ;-]

yes things don't look all rosy.

NSMB Wii can turn this around though, but there is no certainty that it will.