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JGarret on 22 November 2012
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Gamerace said:
JGarret said:
Gamerace said:
Holy Necros Batman!!

And damn, look at my prediction back in 2007! I correctly predicted Apple entering the market and expanding it even further - although I didn't envision how Apple would do it at that time (iPad). I was very close to when it would happen (predicted end of '09, happened in April '10).

I predicted 360 and Sony would both cut Wii's potential short by re-orienting themselves and going after the casuals (Kinect, Move) although they took longer than I expected and Sony did a sh-t job of it.


And I predicted the VG industry would become enormous - 600m - if you count smartphones and tablets along with consoles (which I do as they are all extensively used for gaming - tablets 66% of use, phones 35% of use) then this is probably pretty damn close.

Damn. I'm good.

Now go ahead and shoot me off my high horse.


*shoots Gamerace* :0

Taking a look back and seeing how the Wii was breaking all sorts of records, on its way to surpassing the PS2..then all of a sudden BAM, it hasn´t even surpassed the PS1.

Admittedly, Wii didn't live up to my expectations, but I expected it to fall short of it's potential for a lot of listed reasons (go check it out) including Kinect and Apple entering the market.    Nintendo vastly disappointed me by effectively abandoning it's own strategy after 2009.   This more than anything else, caused the Wii to fall short of PS2.   But look at Apple!!  It's the 800 pound gorilla now and Samsung/Android isn't too far behind.   They took what Wii started and ran with it, creating the vast market we have now - just as I predicted.


I wonder what are the chances of 'another Wii' or 'another PS2' happening...and also, of all the people who stopped gaming after the NES/SNES and returned with the Wii, and those who had never shown interest in videogames until the Wii...how many of them will upgrade to the Wii U?...do they even view the Wii U as an upgrade?...or they don´t even know/care what the Wii U is because a lot of them have moved to smartphones?...these are interesting questions.