And what is the betting that at every single one of these Xbox360 soccer mom parties one of the guests pipes up and says ...

This is not really the Economist speaking. It is that Piers Harding-Rolls of Screen Digest again.

When I first met my daughter's boyfriend she explained that he had just finished his first novel.

@Mike Ortega:

Solutions to this are in the developers' hands already:

nihil noli sub sole

Oh dear, Oh dear Kotaku. Is this more disguised Wii hate or did you not read the article, Stuart?

There is a serious error in this logic.

Something tells me that Ryan Davis' words will come back to haunt him. When he said of Wii Music "meh, it's not gonna happen".

@Edge of Blade:

@dangerism:

Broken record, eh? Talk about pots and kettles.

@fadecy: not to mention Conker's Bad Fur Day

I wonder how the ripples will spread out if I drop a pebble in this stagnant pool?

Well, it is nice to see at last some attach rate figures for the same period of sales - so taking out the year's advantage that Microsoft has.

This is where Wii Music has made its real breakthrough (and to a lesser extent Wii Sports and Endless Ocean, but not Wii Fit).

@PLAAND88:

There's got to some leeway, or there would be no interesting headlines. But we should be able to rely on reputable journalists to not go too far.

@ridepod:

Microsoft finally admits Wii to be a next-gen console.