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Gnizmo said:
I value you a McDonald's meal at about $5. I do not value the dump I take later at $5, but would still pay $5 for another meal. I am not any less satisfied with my purchase. I have consumed it. There is a difference.

And you addressed my math by admitting I was right. There would only be X number of games that could ever be sold. This means there is a cap on the industry, and it will die. You can say it won't happen for X number of years, but that is irrelevant. It is in the publishers best interest to make you want to buy his next game. So in addressing my point you have conceded I am correct. I did not expect both.


Your continuous usage of digestion as an attempt at analogy only shows how little you comprehend the concepts being discussed in this thread.

No I actually showed that I am right, you see, even today after nearly 30 years the makret hasn't even rached half of that 120 billion mark, by the time it does reach even half that, the world's population will be closer to 12 billion and by then many of the world's population which currently are too poor to afford gaming as a hobby will be much richer, as a result the population of gamers will probably be closer to 2 billion, at which point the maximum numbers of games will be 240 billion at minimum, and that's not even counting the number of people who were gamers but died in the intervening years, the number of games sold would never reach the barrier that you thinik it will, population growth would always outstrip it, so I'm afraid the math continues to prove my point, infinite replayability will never threaten the games industry.



 

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)