Financial Times Germany: Wii at 30.2% worldwide market share

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eugene said:
In order for the Wii to achieve greater than 50% market share this generation,there gonna need to sell well over 20 million units a year from now on. Thats no easy feat. The thing is the 360 and PS3 will also sell better with each progressive year as their prices go down and their game libraries grow. Thats not to say the Wii wont sell 100 million + units at the end.

True, but the Wii is already at 43% with a weak lineup of games and supply problems. I don't know what to think of the console, to be honest.  I don't want to mentally put it at PS2 levels for a couple reasons. One is I don't know how much farther this is going to go, so it could fall short. The 2nd thing is I've never seen old people playing a PS2, or any console for that matter, so it could end up ass dazzling anything and everything seen before on the console market.

I think maybe the problem a lot of us gamers get into is we're thinking of it in terms of older generations when the experience was always roughly the same.

I mean we're sitting here talking about exclusives when we've already seen the biggest exclusive for the 360 come out (Halo), when:

1) Nintendo holding back supply for the holidays,

2) with an already limited supply,

3) right in the middle of an incredible 360 game glut,

and it barely nudged out the Wii for top sales for 2 weeks.  

The thing is it didn't really impact on sales, it's like that whole span didn't even exist as far as Nintendo momentum was concerned.

I'm not touching Wii predictions with a 100 foot pole.