Microsoft's Xbox division turns a profit (again!)

Shipping 1.3M in a quarter really puts the Wii supply craziness into perspective. Aren't they selling something like 1.8M per month? So not only are they already ahead of the 360 but they're significantly widening the gap. I'm not really a fan of the Wii, but damn that's impressive.

The wii sells consoles like hotcakes... but the amount of games they sell is dismal.

actually while Wii games may be...glorified shovelware, the Wii actually moves a quite a bit of software maybe not as much as the 360 in america, but overall its actually doing quite well.

Now does it have the games i play the most compared to 360 or PS3...not by a longshot, but Nintendo is laughing all the way to the bank as the industry leader right now.

depending on your perspective anyway.

The Wii has something like 25 million selling games worldwide. Granted more than half of those are first party, but there's clearly been some room for isolated success on the third party side... particularly by games that "get" the whole Wii concept (Guitar Hero, Carnival Games, etc.).

It's not really setting the software charts on fire here all of the time, but worldwide it's certainly doing well enough for most major third parties to want to continue to bother with it.

I have been gaming since the time the NES came out. I upgraded to the SNES, then to the 64. My brother got a gamecube, but nobody yet has bought the Wii. Why? Given the fact that we started with the NES, we are now in our mid 20s and thoroughly enjoy chainsaws and violence and blood and gore and more violence and all the adrenaline that goes along with that. I am a new parent and honestyl, if my daughter wanted to be into gaming, I would buy her the Wii. Why? I don't want my kids exposed to the Mature content of the games I buy for the 360. Sure, there are other non violent games, like Viva pinata and sonic and Legos games, but the Wii does really have a hold on the family friendly games and always has. That is who they are. Sure, they have some adult games out there, but it seems as though they cater to children. I bet somebody is going to say to hell with the M rating and they will let their kids play any game they want cause it is better to expose them now rather than later, yada yada yada. honestly, it is a personal decision and just as they won't be seeing R rated movies until they are 17 or 18 or whatever the age is, they won't be playing M rated games until then either.

point is, from my perspective, I could see why the Wii is blowing ever other console away: it is a safer console for family friendly games, over all, but not exclusively 100%. Anyways, just my two cents.

I still love my xbox. and my second xbox cause my first one crapped out on me. The first one is now on display in my home in a glass case to be viewed as a leader in home entertainement and how NOT to make a next gen console at launch. I wonder what those numbers would be if everybody only bought 1 xbox 360? likely they would be half of what they are. people want good harware for GTA!!!

My wii is collecting dust like so many others, my gfs 10 year old has even lost interest in it. Graphics are very lackluster as they usually are. With the lack of achievements I just don't find it as fun to be honest. I know they mean nothing, but still…. No GTA!! Lol Of course they don’t know playable games allowed even brawl was a disappointment to me.

Maybe they'll use this mountain of profit to engineer a console that doesn't have paper-maché guts.

/back to patiently waiting for my coffin
//still love the 360's killer line-up and online

Actually the wii has a higher attatch rate than the ps3
so people are buying games for the wii ( lol OR the ps3 attatch ratio sucks)

I won't enjoying any GTA for some time, I got my 2nd RROD so right now I feel smacking that smile off Bill's face.