Prediction: Wii U will sell under 40 million units

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Gamerace said:

Wow, THIS is IRONIC.

Back in late '06 or early '07 a poster named John Lucas predicted Wii would sell 20m in 2007 and win the generation - easily. At that time everyone on this site thought he was A) crazy, B) a joke or C) the ultimate deluted Nintendo fan. I and one other member were the only people who agreed and I explained in detail why. But people then couldn't see past their own little world of core gaming. The idea of soccer moms and elderly folks buying a Wii was beyond their imagination. I got it. I predicted Wii would succeed when vertually no one else did.

John Lucas was very much the ultimate deluded Nitendo fan. His first prediction turning out right went to his head and he started predicting impossible stuff like the Wii selling something like 100m unit by the end of 2008.