Yeah, it's a bit silly to call it this early, but they do it during elections, so hell, let's do it here: Wii will win this generation of the console wars.
Not by much: it'll take a while for it to pass the XBox 360's sales, and the PS3 will do well in the long run, making for something much closer to a three-way split than the PlayStation slamdunk of the last generation. But Wii has and will continue to "DS" this market, and the only thing that will stop it is if Nintendo fails to release must-have titles in the coming years.
Why? Because the Wii is sold by what you do with it, not what it is. As long as this remains the case, Nintendo will continue to spew these out and still be unable to keep store shelves stocked.
The news today on the matter is, as expected, that the Wii's sales were highest again in February on the nonportable console chart, selling 335,000 units to the XBox 360's 228,000. The XBox, already out for almost 18 months, has already saturated more of its its market potential, so MS will be happy with continued strong sales. But the PS3 is also new, and only went to 127,000 homes in Feb. It's not a disaster, but it suggests that the price is just too high, and good games still too thin on the ground, for the machine's capabilities to translate to sales.
Check out Wired's gaming blog, Game|Life, for opinion on these matters that amounts to more than my ex cathedra pronouncements derived from wire story briefs.
Wii are the champions? [Reuters]
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