No, not at all.

When you've had about 10 years of relatively unchallenged dominance by Sony, it's a lot harder to believe that Nintendo (of all companies) could make a humongous comeback. Sure, the DS was a big hit, but that was nothing new for Nintendo handhelds. I guess it was the success of the Wii that surprised me so much.

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well, i didn't really know the wii would kick ass, but i did at least know that the ps3 was doomed because of how cocky they were and how much they were expecting their customers to bend over for them.

Even after owning the Wii its success shocks and annoys me as it teaches me it has a lot to offer but lacks so much. It is truly designed for kids, just look at the stupid Miis. And the stupid parent warning messages telling mommy and daddy how much young johnny has played each day.

It has fun games, but still remains childish and annoying in its presentation.

So I am not shocked it sells well to parents buying consoles for kids, but I am shocked that it out preforms the other consoles.

I could care less about handhelds.

yes, and yes

I wasn't paying attention when the DS was released. I never had a gameboy as a kid so handhelds are new to me. The Wii I hoped would suceed, but I was really expecting Gamecube style sales. Really, I just didn't want Nintendo to be the next Sega or Atari. I gamed only on roomates consoles and played the games they bought. Way before launch I even dimissed the console when the name "Wii" was announced. A good friend spent a lot of breaks at work hyping the system until I was eager at launch. The Wii is the first console I owned since the 64. The Wii is directly responsible for me being an active gamer again.

The only thing I didn't expect was for 3rd parties to actively try to sabotage the Wii.

I knew the Wii would be big because it made me buy one unlike last generation when I got a cube and Mario Kart: Double Dash for $35.

Gotta remember PS and Xbox stuff has a lot of negative advertising in the real world. Who owns PSPs? Fat, greasy nerds. Who owned xbox and ps2? Anime fags and kids that scream about chocolate milk. WoW is dying now because who plays WoW? Fat unemployed losers that let their kids starve to death.

I knew Nintendo would win because they not only cut people like that loose, they actively declared war on the whole current gaming culture.

I expected the Wii to do well, and to be in the lead at this point in the life cycle, but not by this margin. I figured the PS3 and 360 would fight tooth and nail against each other, and that Microsoft had learned some valuable lessons going up against the PS2, and were better equipped to compete this time around.
I figured the Wii could sneak in and surprise both of them, pulling ahead slightly in overall sales, something like a 45-41-38 type sales breakdown, likely in the order Wii-PS3-360.
Of course E3 came, and PS3 was $600, and that's kind of when I figured all bets were off.
Third parties avoided Nintendo for the two previous generations, I didn't expect it to change right away, but I figured once they saw the market swing towards Nintendo, and coupled with the smaller development budgets, things would change. Guess we've seen how well that played out.
DS I never saw coming. I thought it looked like a neat idea, but I couldn't really see how it would be implemented. I figured the media playback ability of the PSP would help spur momentum more than it ever did.