The Wii is Victorious (for one month at least)

This is data is about a month late old now, but the Nintendo Wii was the best selling video game console of January. Here's the totals

1. Nintendo Wi- 436,000
2. Sony Playstation 2- 299,000
3. XBox360- 294,000
4. Sony Playstation 3- 244,000

Microsoft dominated the month of December though selling over 1.1 million XBox's (first and second generation) while the Wii sold 604,000 in a distant second.

What is most staggering to me about this figures is that the PS3, with all its hype and technological capabilities continues to finish in third place of the new consoles. Although the PS2 is still selling very strong, that probably won't keep up for too much longer. It's almost like Sony tried far too hard in developing the PS3 and made it too expensive and harder to get. Eventually the PS3 should catch up depending in large part on when they decide to lower the price. These selling figures only take two months into account. It's hard to determine the successfulness of a console like this in four months, but thus far the PS3 has dug itself a hole that it desperately needs to get out of.