Everyone knows the reason LBP might fail (i said might) and the Wii will sell massive numbers is because Nintendo have most of the casual market and still retain the hardcore appeal in many ways.
Think about this, if every PS3 or Xbox owner is expected to buy a Wii then not even market saturation from competitors will affect the sale numbers.
The Wii has the capacity to sell at least 140 million.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
