From the article Microsoft's Xbox ready for bigger battle in Japan, which discusses Microsoft's impending launch of Kinect in Japan:
Microsoft has some catching up to do in Japan. As of last week, it had sold some 150,000 Xbox 360 console this calendar year, according to Media Create Co., a Tokyo-based gaming market research company. Nintendo sold about a million Wii units during the same period, while Sony sold just under a million.[Takashi Sensui, head of Microsoft's home and entertainment division in Japan] said Kinect would help Xbox close the sales gap and maybe even surpass rivals "eventually."
Yes, your doofy mini-game-focused two-player might-have-to-be-standing unicorn tear technology might make a dent in that nearly 900,000 unit sales deficit this year. A double deficit, even, standing behind TWO direct competitors.
While we're at it, let's look at worldwide console sales to date...
The DS is poised to pass the PS2 in worldwide lifetime sales. That's amazing considering how gamer communities reacted to the big DS vs PSP fight back in 2004, where the DS was considered DOA. Except for the kiddies, of course.
The PS3 and 360 continue to run neck-and-neck, even with the 360's year head start. Of course, in the Americas the Wii/360/PS3 split is much closer at 34 million, 24 million and 14 million respectively.
Just amazing to me how many Wii consoles have been sold. No one in our house plays it anymore, kind of sad but really goes to show that in our house, Xbox is king with the kids.