[Guest article by Infendo reader Mike Reilly]

If you were to research the state of the video game industry through the most obvious available sources, you would come to the wrong conclusion.  If you surfed the most popular gaming websites, blogs and forums and subscribed to the most popular video game magazines still published, you would assume Xbox 360 and Playstaton 3 were in the midst of a heated battle of technological superiority, while Wii was merely an “also-ran,” barely worthy of mention.  This is the consensus of the hardcore gaming community, the online “gamersphere,” whose l33t skills and fickle passions have driven the industry to ever-increasing profitability.
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