Wii will never top the 50%! Let's discuss it!

[Mummelmann]

Wow, the OP should've never bothered. That said; the majority of this site remained adament that the Wii would reach 50% marketshare and sell 45 million units by the end of 2008 and neither of those happened, so everyone can be wrong.
I'm not saying the Wii won't reach 50% marketshare (my sig would suggest as much), my point is simply that things don't always play out exactly like we assume and/or hope.
Analyzing trends and making projections will take you far, but not always all the way, which this generation should show more than any other, and indeed the site staff's own predictions for year end hardware was mostly wrong in 2008 (yes, most were very close, but the fact of the matter was that these milestones were touted as sure things and were guaranteed).
The next few months will be telling, we can't look back on 2008 and say things will remain the same, the future is not the past.

PS: The idea of Wii at 40% marketshare by years end must be among the most preposterous things ever uttered in here.