Xbox 360 and the game market, nine months later  Over at Seattle
PI, again, Todd Bishop has celebrated the 9-month anniversary of
the Xbox 360 by looking at how sales of games have changed.
He's done this by adding together the sales of a handful of
games publishers who break out results by console, so it's not a
proper market survey. However, it does include EA, the industry
giant, so it's probably a good sign of which way the wind is
blowing.  The result is not a surprise. Basically, the Xbox
share of the market has increased, at the expense of the PS2 and
GameCube. But not by much. As Bishop says:  You can literally
see the user base shifting from the original Xbox to the Xbox
360, with the two Microsoft consoles basically splitting the
sales volume that was associated with the original Xbox in the
previous year. This appears to support the conventional wisdom
that much of the Xbox 360's initial market would come from
existing Xbox users who upgrade to the new console. The question
here is how many new ga