Actually I think it shows that British people recognized Wii as a fad quicker than the rest of the world.
E for all is something completely different. E3 will be held in July in Santa Monica and although the size of the show and the number of the atendees will be significantly smaller, the news coming out of the event may be as interesting as in the previous occasions. There will be large platform holder press conferences just before E3 and it is believed that those will be as spectacular as ever.
but would not be nice if Microsoft gave away the exact numbers? If that number is close to normal failure rate or even slightly above normal they could have easily adversed the bad publicity. Since they are refusing to give any indication it seems obvious that the number is actually dramatically above the norm.