Ah my friend John Lucas.... He's still around. He's a regular columnist for Popzara Press (popzara.com) now. That's right, he's actually making money off of his posting abilities now. Maybe.
John loved to stir up the fan boys and see their reactions. I was one of the few who backed him claim of 20m Wiis by Dec 31st 2007 and we were right. I think I backed this one too. (blush) but beyond that, JL claims became simply nonsensical calling for numbers that conservative and independent Nintendo simply could never produce. So From 2008 on I was openly challenging him but still making much higher (and generally more accurate) predictions than most on this forum.
Loved LeoJ and Crazzyman too. All ridiculous in there thinking. Completely blind fanboys who predicted PS3 could never fall (IE: It'd be as big or bigger than PS2) and Wii must.
Honestly, I think Wii would have maintained momentum except Nintendo shot themselves with the disaster of Wii Music and Animal Crossing as 2008's holiday games. If they had release Wii Sport Resort and made AC:CF more like farmville instead, they'd have continued to sell out. As it was, they lost people's imagination and never regained it. Kinect was the finally blow and Joe Q public became fascinated with that (although aside from dance games I still feel Wii is better in almost every way) and forgot Wii almost completely. Combined with soft 3rd party support who never figured out the Wii and it stalled and fell way short of it's potential.
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