He stopped posting after his year end prediction for 2008 turned out to be more than 15 million over the actual units sold, which was the least accurate prediction out of all VGC contributors for that year.
60 m for year end 2008 was his prediction/guess if I remember correctly. Actual was just short of 43.7 m.
A lot of Nintendo pundits were making some really crazy predictions at the time though, getting caught up in the idea that they'd be more common in homes than DVD players, etc.. Some of the gems I remember included that 3rd party developers would be forced to make the Wii the lead development platform for their games or "go out of business" and that their shareholders would even demand this. 65% eventual marketshare was another gem.
Someone should dig up some of the other more ridiculous predictions to include some of the crazier PS3 related posts both predicting a 180 degree turnaround after (fill in your favorite PS3 exclusive here or $299 price) as well as those predicting the year in which SCE was to pull a Sega and drop out of the console business.
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