It's very unusual that the lone guy running a free business is acting more professional than the corporate industry standard but at least he didn't trash you in an NPD press release, just a post on GAF.

 Is that actually him? I thought his name was driley on neogaf.

He probably just bets on his own data and like any sensible organization - including Microsoft, Sony, and Gamestop - expected hardware sales to increase as those three reported independently for the GTA launch week.

When it didn't I bet he lost alot of money 

After reading this, I saw it as a possibility. figuring out all different SKU's and inclusions of bundles can be timeconsuming, untill I read this interview:

"BIZ: With all the talk about GTA IV driving increased sales of PS3 and 360 hardware, I was surprised to see both systems under 200K, while the Wii (sans GTA) just blew them out of the water. What happened?

Frazier: If there was one thing that surprised me about the sales results, this would be it. I had expected greater hardware sales for both platforms as well, and my hunch is that with only 5 days of GTA IV sales captured in this data set, we may see that lift when the May data is released. It could be that many of those that went to buy the game in its first 5 days at retail were already owners of one or both of the systems and that down the road game sales may spur hardware sales."

So yeah they did include those 5 days but they do not exclude the possibility of higher sales in the march review.

Edit: Sorry was so busy reading, didn't notice this already being posted...

Has NPD come in yet? Can someone re-post here for me as the Wii browser won't display full forum pages.

Ok, so I see he's changed his name. In this thread it's the same poster "theguy" as you linked in thequote, but in the posts quoting him the name is "driley".

driley = theguy

I realize you're banned and can't respond but ...

I don't think that it is realistic to expect Sony and Microsoft to completely copy Nintendo's approach with this generation, and for developers and publishers to react towards their systems as they have with the Wii today. I do expect less expensive systems with more modest hardware; this isn't to say that the next generation will be taken to the extreme that the Wii was, and I believe Sony and Microsoft will aim for the most powerful (reliable) hardware that can be manufactured and sold for (roughly) $300 without taking massive losses. I do expect a move towards Wiimote-like controllers, but I expect that they will be improved in order to fix most of the Wiimote's limitations and to be more effective in core-gamer genres.

well, video games had a good run. *sarcasm*???

Lets just hope sony/microsoft keeps doing what they are doing and not trying to copy the Wii.

I think both sony and microsoft overestimated the knowledge of the average gamer, most of them are like sheep and buy everything that is popular.