I was reading my old threads and came across this news article from May 2007 that I posted here (two threads actually).
Nintendo says Wii will sell as many as 35 million Wii units in the US alone by 2011 or 2012.
Initial Thread (very good read)
My Thread (short but I like my OP and it was locked due to wrong forum)
Well its 2012 and we now know that:
By end of 2011 Wii sold over 38.6m Wii units to US alone, beating PS2s record.
By end of this year, Wii should be over 40m Wii units sold.
wow. Though its interesting that only a few months after launch a major manager in Nintendo gave it a very high sales prediction (that came true) but they still were effectively sold out for another full year. Also, I find it interesting that they picked 2011/2012 to end it when its clearly become the time frame that they are bringing out its successor. I'm thinking they had a next console planned for that time frame all along.
