[Angrist]

I haven't read the full article, so I can't really say much, but I agree with manasecret here. Microsoft had one big winner and that was Project Natal. The rest was all in the line of expectation.

But Natal is years away. Nintendo has awesome motion control coming out this month. They had it first. That their competition is copying them is a huge compliment and shows that they took the right gamble. And 50,000,000 says enough.

I don't see how Sony's conf is 'defeating' Nintendo's. I watched it, it had some nice games, but their PSP and motion control parts were very weak.

If I want to give them grades, it's something like this:
MS - 8.5
Nintendo - 6.5
Sony - 5.5