JOHN LUCAS WAS RIGHT! 20,130,000 Wiis sold by 12/31/08!

[rocketpig]

Fastrabbit09 said:

rocketpig said:
Wasn't his original prediction 24 million that was later pared down to a minimum of 20 million? Somebody correct me on this if I'm wrong. The original prediction was quite some time ago.

And using the excuse of shipped consoles over sold to make the prediction work is pretty damned weak. No one uses shipped numbers on this site.

In any case, it's impressive that he predicted this so long ago but when everything settles down, his prediction was still wrong.

his original was 20mil; he later said 20-24, but his original was just plain 20mil

and shipped was 140k over 20mil...nobody knows how much sold was, as those are just estimates...we do know that vgchartz undertracked americas by 300k and do u really wanna argue that there were 300k wiis in stores in Americas?

What does Nintendo consider "shipped to retailer"? It leaving their warehouse or it being delivered?

Having worked in shipping/receiving in the past, I don't see how they would track deliveries like that. It's highly likely that once it leaves their door, they consider it sold.