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I think we've got a couple of good points here - one is that the analysts have their own agendas, I think the other is that a lot of them are just crunching pure numbers and going the "safe" route. Really, only Nintendo Fanboys and a handful of inspired nuts saw the Wii as a huge success prior to E3 2006, and even then most of us were skeptical.