Give JL his due. Yes, he was a little short - not because he over-estimated how popular the Wii would be, be fact, he may have under-estimated that. But he over-estimated Nintendo's construction capacity.
Considering none of us know the complexities of putting together a VG system (especially when you're not Sony) JL was damn close. DAMN close, with a prediction (almost) all of you thought was not only way off, but totally insane.
To be fair, some of his predictions have also been way off, but he was one of the first and only to predict Wii's immense success right from the get-go. And those predictions that were wrong are only wrong by date, not by fact (Wii will surpass 360 in NA, Wii Fit will outsell Halo 3).
No, JL is not a visionary prophet, and while I don't like to tout my own horn my predictions have been more accurate than his, but it's JL that puts them out there for all to see and criticize and then backs them up. So while he's most likely wrong about 20m sold to customers by Dec 31, 2007 he's wrong by such a small amount that many of you would have even considered it impossible, even as late as November.
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