John Lucas... Your predictions are ridiculous. The demand may be there to do the numbers you're claiming, but the supply is not... Furthermore, it is almost impossible for the WW passing of 360 to coincide with the NA passing in the same month... Right now the Wii is behind 360 by 3.5 million units in NA. To catch it in 5 months (March-July), it would need to OUTSELL 360 by an average of 700K every month, meaning it will need some 875-1000K delivered to NA every month. Supply will NOT be that high all of a sudden. Furthermore, if NA sales WERE that high, it would suggest that Wii would pass 360 WW long before July. The WW lead for 360 is only 3.6 million, and 3.5 million of that comes from NA. If Wii keeps building on its lead over 360 in Japan by 200,000 a month, it would basically have to sell LESS than 360 in Europe for the NA passing of 360 to coincide with the WW passing. Basically the 360 has to keep up with Wii outside of NA for the NA and WW passings of 360 to come around the same. Maybe what you should be predicting is that the European and WW passings of 360 will coincide in July... Since that is actually possible... And you may want to wait for Nintendo's production goal's for Wii... If they're only aiming for 6 million WW from April-Sept, its hard to peg Wii passing 360 in July...
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
