Cougarman said:
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Back to apologizing for my mis-prediction... Since that comment may well have been the swansong of my journalistic career, I wanted to take a moment to explain why I made such a glaring mistake. As I said before, I met the reporter at an event in Seattle. Nintendo had just revealed its summer and fall lineup for Wii which included three highlights: Carnival Games; Big Brain Academy; and Pokemon Battle Revolution. As I recall, they did not let us play Metroid, but we knew it was coming. I took that as a bad sign.
This was mid-June, 2007, and Wii had been out for 18 months. Now in my experience, the 18 month mark was when you started seeing a generation of competent games for new systems, but Nintendo showed us nothing even remotely competent at this event. Well, there was Boogie, from Electronic Arts. That must have tickled some gamers' fancies.
Anyway, after 18 months on the market, Wii inventory was still nowhere near meeting demand; but the only things people were playing on their Wiis were tennis, bowling, and boxing. In other words, they were still playing Wii Sports.
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what the hell is this guy on? metroid prime 3 was out within 1 year of wii's release, and there was MKWII, SSBB and SMG in the first 18 months, he really needs to fix his timeline
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Indeed, mid-June would represent week 30 for the Wii which is 48 weeks shy of the 18 month mark. In short the Wii had been out only 6 months and in fact it would be another year, just before June of 2008, before the Wii hit the 18 month mark. Of course he couldn't have been referring to 2008 either since Boogie was in fact shown in '07 and not '08 and was released in August of 2007.
