Nintendo’s sales mark represents the most game systems sold in any month since November 2002, when Sony sold 2.7 million PlayStation 2 systems (priced at $200), Frazier says. The PS2 has gone on to sell about 43.2 million in the U.S.

A quick jump over to VGChartz.com shows us that Wii has sold 18.28 million units in the United States, which is a little less than 4 million more than its nearest competitor, Microsoft’s XBox 360. This number is also about 12 million more than the PlayStation 3, which would have almost certainly been cut as a product if Sony lost the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD war with Microsoft.

Anyway, the point here is that it is remarkable that the video game industry has only been marginally rocked by the market tumult. And it is even more impressive that Nintendo has managed to build a juggernaut system without the use of an internal hard drive or high definition graphics. Add in that the bulk of the games available for the Wii are family-friendly and generally leave the hardcore gamers out in the cold, and you have a real phenomenon in the video game industry.

As a guy who is financially invested in the successful outcome of at least one video game software company (which has not been mentioned in this post), I hope that the good news keeps coming in!

One of Stern’s selling points has always been that, “Sirius XM is much more listenable and just a better product than boring, old, terrestrial radio.” Well, I have a comment on that “boring, old, terrestrial radio” statement…

For the fun of it, I flipped over from my Sirius XM to NJ 101.5 about a month ago. It was great! I got to listen to the Jersey Guys for a few minutes and then it went to commercial. I RARELY hear a commercial on Sirius. When Howard 100 hits commercial, I just flip over to New Country and listen to music or over to one of the news stations or anything, really. Anyway, NJ 101.5 flipped to commercial, so I flipped to G-Rock Radio 106.3. Unfortunately, there were commercials there, too.

Not to be led astray, I put the dial over to what used to be K-Rock at 92.3…yeah, commercials. At this point I flipped back over to Sirius, but then again – I was only in the car for a few more minutes anyway.

Fast forward to when I get back into the car, I admit that I had a hankering for the Jersey Guys so I flipped back to NJ 101.5 and lo and and behold, there was one of the Jersey Guys giving the radio weather report. They do that on that station – it’s a nice service to the listeners. Then, back to commercials.

At that point, I flipped back over to Sirius XM just in time to hear Howard Stern in the middle of rant against, “boring, old, terrestrial radio.” And you know what? Howard was right. Once you get used to satellite radio, hearing the old terrestrial radio just isn’t quite the same.