the 360 has been out long enough for pretty much everyone to get one, and now problems are being ironed out/warranties extended people don't need to keep buying replacements.

if the wii truely is in shortage (again? come on nintendo sort it out) then there's another excuse. personally i'd probably put it down to the fact that, again, everyone already has one. keep selling consoles that fast an eventually you run out of customers.

the ps3 has been slow at selling due to games and price. now it has 1 or 2 games worth playing, another 3 or 4 lined up for the first half of next year, paired up with recent price cuts, people are actually considering buying the thing.

"Microsoft boasted to Next-Gen.biz that it outsold Playstation 3 by a ratio of 2:1, citing unspecified retail estimates."

Lets see if this holds true, when the official NPD numbers come in. I suspect Microsoft will end up with egg on their face, but quickly backtrack, and claim they were misquoted, or launch a distracting FUD attack, so people forget..