Bitmap Frogs said:
Lolololol. Select quotes from Malstrom: "the 360 is practically destined for third place worldwide" "20 million 360 userbase by 2011" suggested 360 to get no 3rd party support unless MS bought out every game from every dev All of the above preceded by the usual disclaimers "possibly "looks like" "if things continue as they are" to cover his ass, just in case. The guy's an attack dog for Nintendo. The Wiikly archives are still up... reading his articles with the perspective of time kills all his credibility. |
I know their up, I linked to them, duh, and even with his few mistakes, he's been right much more than wrong, he was right that this gen would be similar to the NES gen, as a disruptive era, he was right that Wii would make its competitors irrelevant and force them to change. He was right that this gen would signify the end of the old market.
Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)
