The paper chase
The NPD figures for consoles and software don’t mean a whole lot to me. They’re interesting, but in the way that reading about politics or intellectual property law can be interesting - I don’t understand much of it, and I certainly don’t have anything smart or prescient to contribute.
I am confident in one thing, however: the console war, or race, or whatever it is, is over. It was over a long time ago. The Wii won. It’s not a race anymore, and any future “victories” won’t matter very much.
The upside to all this is that there is room in the market for all three consoles. They can all make money. But that might not be enough for some of these companies.
