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Forums - Sales Discussion - Own up: What's your most hilariously wrong sales prediction so far?

Thought it'd be nice to loosen up and have a laugh at ourselves a bit.

In January 2017 I predicted the Switch would sell less than 20 million units. Lifetime.

How about you?

Last edited by curl-6 - on 18 October 2019

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In early 2017 I predicted the Switch would sell around 40 million units. Lifetime.



I don't make many predictions, but I did say the Switch would have a ceiling of 55 million units. I see a pattern here....



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

Come on folks, don't be shy!
We all make mistakes, lets hear yours. Any time you guessed the sales of a game or system and turned out to be waaay off.



IIRC I predicted Sonic & The Black Knight would sell over 2 million after Secret Rings did so well, and Black Knight just looked way better than it.

It didn't.



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Not sure, but I have made many predictions so I think at least one of them was really bad.

This one isn't great: When the PS3 surpasssed 80m or so I thought that it could leg it to 100m.

I am more conservative with my PS4 predictions now.



I had quite a few and my worst predictions were MHW 4m and Switch 40m



WiiU - 64M lifetime.
GTAV - 30M lifetime.

Those are by far my wrongest (is that even a word?) ones.



I predicted that the Switch would sell up to 1 million units, as I thought that was a tremendous amount. I was shocked to hear that it sold roughly 17 million units in 2018 alone.

My current prediction is 100 billion in sales. I am confident this number will be achieved.



I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.

I predicted the Wii U would sell around 50 million in late 2012.



Love and tolerate.