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the Wii will outsell the once mighty PS2.



WiiFit will be 2008 #1 selling game in NORTH AMERICA!  
End of '08 Predictions: Wii - 48m X360 - 25m  PS3 - 19m
Wii monthly NA sales will top 400k every month in '08. *Jan sales ruined it. Grrrr!*
WiiFit will top 1m in sales in its first month of release in North America.
MGS4 will NOT be released in '08. *Darn it!* FF13 will NOT be released in '08.
Rockband Wii will top 600k in first month sales in North America.
WiiFit will pass the PS3 WW sales by Xmas '09.

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The Wii will be the best selling console of all-time. No other console generates that kind of excitement. And folks, it's not fading, but getting worse. The 360 is doing good by default - and the PS3? Jesus, take the wheel.

The PS2 was an awesome machine but the Wii is on fire. 2 Christmases in a row and still hot.



Just a matter of "when"



Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:


If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.

If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.

of course, it's breaking all records at an exceptional rate.



madskillz said:
The PS2 was an awesome machine but the Wii is on fire. 2 Christmases in a row and still hot.

Three Christmases, actually.



Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.

Be the ultimate ninja! Play Billy Vs. SNAKEMAN today! Poisson Village welcomes new players.

What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.

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Millennium said:
madskillz said:
The PS2 was an awesome machine but the Wii is on fire. 2 Christmases in a row and still hot.

Three Christmases, actually.

True, but 2006 Christmas it was so supply constrained you might as well say it was only two.

 



1.Nintendo never had a console which had lifespan more than 8 years (maybe GameBoy and NES)

2.Tell me please, what makes you think Wii will outsell PS2? Just because it had better 2 better years than PS2?  First 3 years are always easy. Sega Dreamcast had the best first year back then and it had more than 50% of the market, and what happened to Dreamcast?  The same will happen to Wii. Wii MIGHT outsell PS1 but it could NEVER outsell PS2. Wii has sold for its 2 years 45 million systems. Let's say it will sell 45 million in next 2 years (probably won't happened) that would be 90 million systems. And lets say it would sell 45 million two years after that(won't happened for sure) it would be 135 million systems. And let's say PS2 would sell 10 million systems in those 4 years. IT WOULD BE LIKE THIS:

Wii:135 million systems sold.

PS2:155 million systems sold.

3. I admit i made a mistake about GTA series and wii games i just checked Wikipedia 

4.i was replaying to this guy who sad this:''Lifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of  consoles by 12/31/2015  

LOL!!! In 2015 will be 9th generation of video game consoles. you must be a BIG wii fanboy when you believe wii will last three generations                                          



Snake said:

1.Nintendo never had a console which had lifespan more than 8 years (maybe GameBoy and NES)

2.Tell me please, what makes you think Wii will outsell PS2? Just because it had better 2 better years than PS2?  First 3 years are always easy. Sega Dreamcast had the best first year back then and it had more than 50% of the market, and what happened to Dreamcast?  The same will happen to Wii. Wii MIGHT outsell PS1 but it could NEVER outsell PS2. Wii has sold for its 2 years 45 million systems. Let's say it will sell 45 million in next 2 years (probably won't happened) that would be 90 million systems. And lets say it would sell 45 million two years after that(won't happened for sure) it would be 135 million systems. And let's say PS2 would sell 10 million systems in those 4 years. IT WOULD BE LIKE THIS:

Wii:135 million systems sold.

PS2:155 million systems sold.

3. I admit i made a mistake about GTA series and wii games i just checked Wikipedia 

4.i was replaying to this guy who sad this:''Lifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of  consoles by 12/31/2015  

LOL!!! In 2015 will be 9th generation of video game consoles. you must be a BIG wii fanboy when you believe wii will last three generations                                          

What dreamworld are u in?

DC never really had 50% marketshare. They where the first so they in one way had 100% and went down. Wii has gone from 0% to nearly 50% being one year after 360 and on same time as PS3.

DC never had even close to the sales of Wii. Did DC even reach 5 millions?

Wii will sell more then just 3 more years, a big success like Wii wonät die after 5 year - no leadning console in a generation has died just after 5 years.

Just like PS2 the sales will increase more year 3 and 4. You totally forgetting that the machine is still att 249 dollars and just like very generation more sales can be created by cutting price. What would a 199 dollar Wii sell? what woudl a 149 dollar Wii sell?

Wii is better in the first 2 then PS2 despite no pricecut, despite not being the first in it's generation and despite that both competitiors are selling better then number 2 and number 3 last generation.

Wii wonät just fade and die within 2 years.

 



Predictions for 2009:

360: 39-42 PS3: 31-34 Wii: 67-70

Future projection

Wii will hit 100 million before christmas 2010 (made december 2008)

NDS Family will have sold and shipped more then PS2 at the end of 2009 (made january 2009)

The Dreamcast was sold at a loss. It wasn't selling sell until it's price was lowered, and then Sega couldn't afford the money it was loosing per unit. The Wii is sold at a profit.  If anything, the PS3 is more comparible to the DC, although the copy protection on the PS3 has not been broke as easily as the DC, so they can continue to loose money on the console and hope to make it back with future software sales.