The Wii Soars
I guess that price drop to $199 helped Nintendo move units:
According to The NPD Group (via Wired), Nintendo moved 3.81 million Wii consoles in North America last month. That's 1.66 million more units than December 2008, and the record for most consoles sold in a single month. No surprise, then, that the games industry had a record month overall, besting December 2008 by 4 percent.
I like the XBox, but the Wii is still very cool. Apparemtly, lots of other people think the same thing