It was a different time back then, when Wii had a lot more promise, sales were absolutely through the roof, the console was essentially sold out in America for like two years from the crazy demand, and all the third parties were supposed to jump on board. Still, even for the context of the time, it was a pretty absurd prediction. Though not much more absurd than the belief that the HD consoles can still outsell the Wii, which seems to be a surprisingly somewhat common belief held here..
Personaly at the time, I felt reaching the PS2 sales, or maybe sliiightly more, was the absolute maximum Wii could possibly reach, though that was under the logical assumption that the Wii would eventually earn PS2-like support, which of course we all know never happened.
Being the pessimist I am, my REALISTIC prediction for Wii sales, even when it was riding its highest high, was pretty far to the opposite end of the spectrum from this guy's. While I love Nintendo and wanted them to do well, I would have been surprised/happy if the Wii simply passed the NES in sales, and frankly I still am. After all, I grew up in the dark ages of Nintendo gaming for much of my life and was used to nothing better. So anything greater than the NES sales to me was just a bonus. Now we're talking about the Wii almost certainly passing the 100 million PS1, which still shocks me to this day. That will certainly be a nice milestone, though it sadly will never reach the PS2. Oh well, maybe when Nintendo reloads with the Wii U :/
