Honestly, starting your analysis with media reports when talking of the Wii isn't a good idea. The media has always been against the Wii, before its release or after it, gaming or non-gaming, large influencial media corporation or small unknown blog. Of course, there have been exceptions, but usually they've been far and few.
Also, you used UK prices and figures (360 200k ahead, :P - it'll probably be 4m behind at least), but switched to a worldwide perspective for its overall sales. You also used > instead of < when you mentioned expectations for it, :P.
But that's just fun nitpicking, xD.
I really don't agree with your plan for the Wii, though. You seem to think they expected it to make a mockery out of its competitors. I don't think even Nintendo planned to have to ship over 50m Wiis; it surpassed even their expectations, :D. Also, 2013 is far too early for Nintendo to just drop the Wii like that. The NES, Nintendo's best home console before the Wii and the only console other than the PS1 that it can be accurately compared to, sold a third of its sales after SNES release. Around 20m, I believe. Considering the Wii will have sold over 100m Wiis (probably more, Q1 2012 is too early, more like September-ish to be able to meet supply by the holidays and sell massively consistently), 150m really seems more likely. Also, they won't need to drop the Wii because it'll easily sell to poorer (recession-affected) people in Japan, Europe and America and the few developing countries they can access because of the eventual price drop to $50 (which is more than likely).
So, yeah, I'm basically criticizing your overly pro-Wii thread for being too anti-Wii, :P. Oh, and I'm saying that, other than messing up their '08 line up, they did nothing wrong, xD.
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