So it turns out the Nintendo Wii is a bigger hit than the Sony PlayStation 3. International Herald Tribune reports:

The competitive picture became clearer Tuesday, when Sony reported disappointing profits that industry analysts attributed largely to the shaky rollout of the PlayStation 3 and lukewarm demand for the complex machines.

By contrast, Nintendo said last week that its own third-quarter sales were up 40 percent from a year earlier, buoyed by Wii sales. Both consoles were hard to come by during the holiday shopping season. This week, visits to stores throughout the United States turned up several with PlayStation 3's in stock, while the Wii was sold out.

And further:

Nintendo recently announced that during the holiday quarter, it shipped 3.2 million Wii consoles and sold 17.5 million games. Sony said it shipped 1.84 million PlayStation 3's in the quarter, and sold 5.2 million copies of game software for the console.

Nintendo might sell even more Wiis if it could just make and ship more of them. Company officials said they were shipping around a million worldwide every month, half of those to the United States, but retailers have said they cannot keep them in stock.

I totally called that.