What a Surprise - Wii outsells PS3

We got this from one of our regular readers:
According to NPD, a retail market research firm, Nintendo sold 604,200 Wii consoles in the United States in December, beating Sony, which sold 490,700 units of the PS3.
In addition, Microsoft sold 1.1 million Xbox 360s in December.
Overall, video game and hardware sales were $3.7 billion in December, up 28 percent, according to NPD's figures.
The press release can be found here.

Good story. I feel your pain down here in the states.