[Lynk Former]

Lynk, its domination no matter which way you look at it. That's why 2006 was a given for MS in the USA. If they didn't dominate and take advantage of the supply shortages of the other two that would of been a huge disappointment and I would of come up with a different prediction for the USA for 2007.

No, "domination" suggests that Microsoft took an active part in bringing down Nintendo and Sony and that it is end game for Nintendo and Sony. Microsoft did lead 2006, that's plain obvious since its competitors only sold their "nextgen" machines for 1 and a half months in 2006 while 360 sold for the full year... but it's not domination when around 10 million Xbox360s have been sold around the world and almost 4 million Wii's sold around the world at this point in time.

Now, let's take a look... 10 million 360's... 4 million Wii's. Yes. Microsoft is ahead. But I have a question for you... how much time has Microsoft had before the launch of Wii to sell its system?

Microsoft did nothing to take advantage of supply shortages of the other two because it couldn't do anything. The only thing Microsoft could do was keep a steady hand, the fire stoked and think of the future because they launched first and they have to keep burning brightly.

What occurred is that Sony shot itself in the foot several times, this doesn't mean they're down and out, it just means they've stumbled but I assure everyone here that Sony still has the capability of taking down both Nintendo and Microsoft.

With Nintendo it's different, they gambled, took huge risks with a product they were confident in and won the first round. In a short period of time they managed to take a nice slice out of Microsoft's market share and take enough attention away from Sony's launch.

In the end, yes, I do agree with you that the Xbox360 has the highest chance of dominating the US market... but I don't agree that Microsoft dominated the final moments of 2006... and with the numbers coming in, I'm not so sure Microsoft dominated 2006 as a whole either. They have a very nice head start, 2007 will show us if that head start was worth it.