Okay, video-game sales stats are out for the month of January. Please tell me there are some exciting changes in the ranking in terms of which gaming console dominated the charts in the U.S. Please tell me that it wasn't the Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) Wii -- that would be too boring. Please . . .

Ah, forget about it! There's no suspense to this. We all know that the Wii is number-one yet again. In January, the console moved just under 680,000 units through retail shelves. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) sold over 300,000 Xbox 360 systems, and Sony (NYSE: SNE), once again, came in third place, convincing a little more than 200,000 gamers to take a chance on its more expensive hardware. Believe it or not, it isn't just price that is sending people to the Wii. If it were just price, then the Xbox 360 without the hard drive would be in first place. No, the Wii is turning into one huge entertainment icon.

Okay, so less than two weeks ago, I penned a piece about the video-game wars. Sony (NYSE: SNE), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) are battling it out in the marketplace with their respective consoles. I proffered that perhaps Nintendo might be making too many Wii systems because, at the time of the piece, I noticed that, in my area, stores had plenty of Wii's (and plenty of Wii Fit units, too). If you wanted a Nintendo system, you got it. Well, let me give you an update on how the Wii's are faring where I am, as well as some sales data from November.

I have to say, I turned out to be wrong. And I have to say that those who left comments on my Wii article turned out to be correct. They took me to task for suggesting that the Wii needed to be limited. Indeed, another check of the Wii supply showed that all the stores around me sold out of their inventories. And now, I've been hearing that everyone is desperate yet again to score the console! In fact, here's an interesting thing not about the Wii, but about the Wii Fit. There was one store that had a huge number of them, boxes piled high. They were gone in something like a few days flat, quite unexpectedly. Now, as I cautioned in my previous piece, please don't take this one account as any sort of scientific conclusion about Nintendo's prospects. Nevertheless, I'm amazed at how fast things have changed in such a short period of time.

And now, let's look at some sales figures for the month of November. Once again, Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 couldn't come close to the Wii. The Xbox 360 moved more than 830,00 units, while the PlayStation 3 sold over 370,000 systems. Nintendo's sales? Try more than 2 million. Casual gaming truly is king. I don't think there's any doubt that the Wii will dominate in December. And in terms of Sony and Microsoft, I think the latter will wind up in second place. These are predictions that are pretty obvious. No need to go out on any limb.