May 2011 was the worst month for console sales since
October 2006, which was, of course, the month before the both Wii and PlayStation 3 came out.
So sales were really dreadful, in other words.
What's disconcerting about this is that
the Kinect just turned six months old in early June. But we haven't really seen much additional software for it, past that launch rush, have we? We'll see another big push this holiday, too, but big holiday pushes do not a sustainable platform make.