Nintendo Wins

[A Black Falcon]

And Nintendo hasn't made a push like this since the SNES, at least not in the home console market.

If the Wii is actually successful in all three regions long-term, as it has been so far (and it sure looks like it will be), it could easily beat the SNES, which didn't win Europe and only won in the US very late in the generation...

Don't think too hard about anything that VGChartz does.

Still, it's not like we have any free alternatives to a lot of the stuff they have, even if it's not always completely accurate...

Anyway, I am still amazed how well Nintendo's strategy has played out so far. When they first started talked about how the videogame industry was in trouble I think everyone thought they were nuts, but they've certainly proved everybody wrong.

The industry was in a lot more trouble in Japan than in the US (or Europe), definitely. And I don't know if their US/Europe success is really finding a new market yet, with the permanent supply shortage... even so, it does definitely vindicate their case.