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Avinash_Tyagi on 27 October 2009
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Alby_da_Wolf said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
SuperAdrianK said:
This thread is moving fast!!!? (honest question) Is malstorm popular...

Somewhat, he was one of the few that accurately guessed the market when Analysts like Pachter were expecting Wii to end up in third and for Nintendo to leave the console market

One of the few analysts, you mean, because most common people immediately recognised Wii would succeed as soon as they saw it.

Those in denial were: rival fanboys, a part of hardcore gamers feeling threathened and "analysts" that never played a videogame. BTW, the only time when hardcores' fears really came true was when PC games ported to XB1 had to be crippled (or, worst, lobotomized) due to that console's limits compared to the average PC of its times and SW houses decided that it was "clever" and economic to cripple PC versions too.

 


Actually, this was well before people realized it would succeed, this was back when most were saying PS3 would win, lol Actually if you read some of the stuff back when the then Revolution controller was launched, people were predicting it was the end of Nintendo, and not just analysts, but gamers, it wasn't really until E3 2006 that people started getting behind the Wii

 

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)