EA: Wii is "confounding," but EA is happy with its success on platform

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Kenology said:

"I think the Wii is confounding to people because it's so darn big and successful. Even this year, what most people perceive as a down year, they're going to sell just in the Western markets somewhere in the mid-teens of millions of hardware units, which is a blow-away success for a console. And yet it's lower than they (and we) originally thought. But that's a little bit like saying they won the Super Bowl by a smaller point spread."  

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Love this quote topped off with a great analogy.

 

And probably the best official rebuttal to all the "Wii is doomed for not selling as much as before!" comments.

BTW, the market is predictable. They just need to figure it out. The market before them was unpredictable at first as well. It was just figured out well before a lot of the people at the 3rd parties were in charge, so they already knew that market.