January 2007 NPD Predictions

[Square07]

TheSource said: Guesses on best sellers and hardware sales... To be clear, I am doing North American data only. If you decide not to add Canada, Latin America be sure to specify it. Hardware: DS - 880k (passing 11 million) PS2 - 440k (uh...) Wii - 385k (Approaching two million) PSP - 330k (near 8 million) 360 - 308k (about 5.5 million) PS3 - 242k (breaking 1 mlllion) GBA - 165k (uh..) Top 10 Software: Lost Planet (360) - 500k Gears of War (360) - 350 k Twilight Princess (Wii) - 300k Call of Duty 3 (360) 250k Nintendogs (DS) 225k Guitar Hero 2 (PS2) 200k Yoshi's Island 2 (DS) 200k Twilight Princess (GC) 150k New Super Mario Brothers (DS) 150k Final Fantasy XII (PS2) 135k Also, anyone want to guess when PS2 games will stop making the top 10? I would say around May-June

Joke post? You realize you are in for a huge disappointment...? Your sales are WAY too high, Christmas ended in December! Why are you posting X'mas season sales? Do you even live in America? We are continuing to have massive Wii shortages (and DS) even to this day, have you not realized that? I have not seen any Wiis ever and no DSes in months in any stores and our Sunday ads continue to avoid advertising for either of them (and it's now Feb.!) meaning they aren't getting any or only a handful every Sunday... And even if there weren't shortage issues a VG console has never been able to sell anywhere near 800k units in January, outside of Japan! The record is about 500k max... And most of your SW sales are also too high... Edit: Now I just looked at some of the other predictions and I'm shocked to see people seriously predicting up to 960k sales for the Wii in January!!!!?!?!?!? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! I don't even know what to say!!! It's so far off! Can they not at least listen to some anecdotal evidence before predicting and some common sense? Before you guys make your predictions maybe you should browse through past American December to January sales...! Try clicking on the 'Americas: Monthly Chart' icon, sheesh...