Does Modchip help console win the next gen wars

According to VGCharts, XBox360 is still at the top of next generation console sales worldwide by selling 9.28M units while Nintendo Wii sales is already reached 5M mark worldwide, and what about PS3 ? well .. PS3 sales worldwide already reached 1.88M

Of course comparing Wii with XBox360 is not fair because 360 has been launched to public since more than 1 year ago, but now that i think of it .. there’s modchip available for Wii and 360. Although it takes quite longer before the first XBox360 modchip available to public compared to Wii

from Wikipedia :

A xbox-scene.com member, Commodore4Eva released a modified firmware for the Samsung DVD drive of the Xbox 360. This allows the user to play copied Xbox 360 games and copied Xbox games. More recently there has been hacked firmware releases for each other DVD model found in Xbox 360s, with new versions being released rather often to improve compatibility. Currently (July 2006) there are many 'modchips' being released which add one or two firmware chips and have a switch to select. These do not allow the user to boot unsigned software or load an alternative OS such as Linux, but allow back-up copy play and software piracy.

As for Wii :

In a very short amount of time four mod chips for Nintendo's seventh generation foray, the Wii, were announced: The WiiNinja (announced on January 26, 2007), the CycloWiz (January 29, 2007), the WiiKey (February 2, 2007) and WiiXT (February 18th, 2007). All three are apparently 'very easy' to install and each are so far mainly for playing back-up and pirated copies of Wii and GameCube games, some boasting compatibility with GameCube homebrew although WiiXT has promised DVD playback. The CycloWiz has begun shipping, while dates for the wiikey release are still extended. Right now it looks like February 25-28 will be the shipping date for the wiikey.

If you see the bolded area, you know what i mean by modchip .. simply because modchip allows you to play backup games on your console. But now the question is, does modchip really help console win the console sales wars ? The answer may vary depending on which country you’re located (and whether you’re a rich guy or not) .. but i'm sure (99.0%) if it is in my country, modchip will really help next gen console sales