Bah. I may only own seven (counting my PCs as one) but I emulate the rest - superior experience, easier game availability.

And, I dunno. The PS3's failure is unsurprising, but I can't say as I really get the success of the Wii. I've played with one a couple of times now and I'm sure not seeing the attraction. Now, granted, I've only gotten to play things like Wii Sports and Rayman Raving Rabbids (2), which are certainly not my natural gaming inclination. So that probably contributes. But these games have been centered around taking advantage of the motion controls, and they felt unnatural, imprecise, and hard to use. I have trouble imagining this boding well for more elaborate games that I might actually want to play on my own like Zelda, Metroid Prime, Super Paper Mario, and RE4.

During the Christmas season I got no less than fifty phone-calls in an eight hour day asking if we had any Wii's in stock. 9.99% of the time the answer was no. Even after Christmas, the calls keep coming in on a regular basis, though not nearly as often as during the Christmas rush.

When we do get a shipment in, they don't last long enough to even put them on the shelf. During Christmas we sold them right out of the boxes we unpacked. No one cared how much they cost, if it was the system itself, or the bundle, they just forked over the cash and walked awake with pride at their new purchase (and I'm sure, for many, a hurting in their wallet and bank account).

Even now, we still sell them right out of the boxes. We took to replacing the spot in the case with Wii Play's (which also don't last very long) and Guitar Hero for Wii (also a rare commodity to be found). Occasionally, to be assholes, we will sell the Wii's we get in stock from the back of the store where we used to have layaway. There really is no other reason than we want to be obnoxious and we're tired of people bitching at us that someone else got the counter before them and got the last Wii out of the shipping box.

We're still fully stocked on PS3's (both 40GB and 80GB) and the X-Box are pretty steady on their coming in and going out. Surprisingly, we sell more Elites than Arcades (previously the core system) and I haven't seen a Pro in stock in our store in a couple of weeks.

Kindle loves being a geek and working in the Electronics department. Now, if only the company she worked for didn't completely suck.

Obviously, when faced with the number of consoles sold, it looks like Sony has lost the war, but luckily for them this isn't the only war they were fighting with the PS3.
If you compare the numbers of PS3s sold with the number of HDDVD players sold, you'll see that one very important strategy of Sony's is paying off, Blu Ray is winning its own war. Sales of Blu Ray discs are 2-1 over HDDVD, despite HDDVD dedicated players outselling their Blu Ray opposition, but there are millions of PS3s in American homes and their owners are buying the bulk of the movies. That's enough to have made Warner Brothers jump ship to go Blu Ray exclusive. Sony now have 70% of movie distributors exclusively using their format, and are going to reap huge rewards for much longer than a console's life cycle from the sales of Blu Ray players and licence fees.
Sony completely fucked up the console war, that's without doubt, and of course they would've loved to have won it, but the PS3 looks like it has secured them the HD format victory, and that was a war with much more at stake.

wii has the lowest attachment rate (how many games are sold per system) than even ps3. xbox is in the lead in that category.

people are buying wiis like they buy ping pong tables. fun thing to drag out on holidays and such, and throw in wii sports. then pack it up and put it back in the cabinet.

nine, not counting our six PCs in operation (and four more in the basement). no PS3 or 360 yet, but the Wii gets plenty of use. it's just fun, and rarely requires a significant investment of time for a game to become interesting. or maybe I'm just getting old.

In my opinion the PS3 still hasn't had an "it" title, that killer app. that everyone must have. They released Resistance: Fall of Man - big whoop. No competition for Halo 3 (sold 8 million copies so far, comparied to Fall of Man's 2 million) or the fun factor of a Wii. It's horrible price tag killed any out-of-the-door purchases and only since their price drop have they picked up a little.

C'mon, you release a year after the 360 comes out and the lowest price is $500? The Xbox 360 Core was $300 and the standard system was $400. The Wii has always been $250, though it was late in comparison to the 360 as well.

Plus the PS3 costs somewhere between $800-900 to produce. Sony is losing a phenomenal amount of money on the system itself. But that's typical as I understand; games and accessories are what they (Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony) make the bulk of their money on.

Once MGS4: Guns of the Patriots come out...that may fuel some additional purchases. I've even considered it, but I'm OK with my 360 and Wii for now. I already have enough games I haven't played yet.

same at my store, and for me, save we actually use what used to be layaway for shipping stuff to the villages out in the wild, so selling them back there is right out. i've started trying to come up with new and confusing ways to say we don't have Wii.

customers are even used to getting laughed at for asking, by now.

Customer: Hello, do you have any Wiis in stock?
Store: Sandwiches! *click*

Ooh, I should try that. My favorite is when they ask me if I know when they are coming in. As a policy, my store does not tell us when we will be getting shipments like that so that we can't tell friends and family when they are coming in so that everyone receives a fair shot at getting one. So, I always tell them no, then they bitch at me for not knowing. I always enjoy telling them to take it up with my manager, who in turn confirms what I had said and they leave in a big huff. Though, I had a couple of people accuse me of maliciously withholding that information from them, claiming that I actually did know when they were being shipped to us.

I hate people.

Beef Jerky!

I should try this. I think my first response tomorrow will be. . .

"No, this company caters to families, we don't stock porn." *click*

I already own a Wii, but I also plan on buying the PS3 right around when GTAIV comes out. The 360 is good, but it's more of something I go over to a friend's to play than what I would want.

So, overall, I think the Wii's hold on the lead is going to be a little shakier next year when the PS3 titles start picking up in quality.

For some excellent responses to Wii inqueries, may I recommend a search for "Chef Bryan" here @ Ctrl-Alt-Del, or click here for a short list of Twisp & Catsby comics @ Penny Arcade.

also, there is the fact that Nintendo doesn't give out advanced notice of shipments, at least to up here, anyway. Wiis come straight from them.

customer: "do you know when you'll be getting in more Wiis?"
me: "the future."[1]

is "Wiis" really the plural of Wii? or should they be refered to as "Wii systems" when using plurals?

[1]: true story

"Hello, do you have any Wiis in stock?"
"The exuberance is insubstantial!"

Ham!