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JGarret on 17 January 2013
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Gamerace said:
zero129 said:
JGarret said:
zero129 said:
Gamerace said:
JGarret said:
Too bad the Wii U isn´t doing that good so far, it´d be fun to have a new John Lucas.


Durango/720/whatever it'll be called - is the new Wii.

As far as John Lucas - SuperChuck and I are about as close as you'll get I'm afraid.  

Should that be a good thing that our new Master Elder Superchunk is being compared to this Jon Lucas who i dont seem to remember xD.

You don´t remember him, zero?..preposterous!..the man was a legend lol.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=11590&page=1

I remember him now lulz xD


After lurking for a while (just viewing charts) I did register mainly to back John Lucas's 'ridiculous' claim Wii would sell 20m in 2007.   We were right.

Beyond that, I don't think I ever agreed with any of John's predictions again.  They weren't always well thought out, even if they were exceptionally well presented.

I think I predicted Wii would sell 150-200m back then.  I still think that was possible IF Nintendo had been able to produce enough when Wii was hot and IF they kept following their blue ocean strategy.  But after Wii Music (which was a mis-fire) they never pursued that idea any further, instead relying on new versions of old games (red ocean).  

As for 720's I think it'll easily take NA, edge Sony out in Europe and do better than 360 in Japan but probably lose to WiiU there.   However, I think console sales as a whole will be down from this gen thanks to tablets and new competition.     Without having seen the new systems yet, I'm guessing:

720 - 80m, PS4 - 50m, WiiU - 30m

Remember Avinash and his 'Wii will sell 300 million' predictions?