Million, this has become a joke thread, don't turn it on-topi-

47 MILLION FOR WII!?!? *laughs insanely at mrstickball*

I was about to go on a long rant of all the inaccuracies on the front page until I realized it was from a year ago. Ha ha ha!

 Gotta dissagree with you there... As far as I'm concerned, the Wii hasn't used any life-lines to safe it's ass yet, and won't for quite sometime... The 360 & PS3 both have had price cuts, bundles, and countless games that were supposed to dethrone the Wii... The PS360 are the ones who have used their backups. For the Wii, there's still room for a price cut (Like you mentioned), different colors, building 3rd Party Support, and the big suprises Reggie mentioned that will appear at E3...

Other then that your points are great... :) 

nice ideas and arguments, it could turn out that way, I think its not likely as there will be even more people buying consoles this gen compared to last because games are becoming a lot like TV, first TV's were small screens and bulky and only a few people had them and now just about everyone has one if not two. Whats in the news and what everyone is talking about is the Wii and you can bet it's most likely going to stay that way for this gen basically whoever obtains the image of "the console this gen" much like SNES, PS1, and PS2 did you basically have a foothold that will not go away for the rest of the gen. Good post MrStickball.

PS: Why did someone revive an old topic?

Because it is fun to bring back completely wrong threads that predicted the future.

(Grabs some shotgun shells)

We got ourselves a zombie thread problem, give me a minute, I'll take care of it.

Who said the thread is wrong?

Brand name?

I wouldn't put it as such. Videogames are a momentum based industry, to be sure, but I wouldn't really consider that to be brand power.

Wii is not going to hit a saturation point due to lack of power. If lack of power was going to hurt it, it would have hurt it already. Instead, the philosophy which led to the lack of power is also leading to the system-moving software like Sports and Fit.

Thread necros is not okay.

My post was really a generalisation and when I said biggest cards I was really reffering to Software , Super Mario , Zelda , Metroid Prime,  Galaxy , Brawl , Wii-Fit , Mario Kart , Wii Play , Wii Sports all released within two years of each other , it provokes the question what's left after Nintendo uses all their biggest franchises in the first two years ? they've got pokemon and that's about it , well there is the option of iterations but that's not really Nintendo's style.

 I believe price-cuts and bundles have a more signifant impact on the PS3 and 360 than they do on the Wii , in  Eurpope there's a £60 price different between the Wii and PS2 ( Using the retailer argos) and it's pretty much agreed that the Wii is pretty  cheap , bundling cheap hardware with a game isn't as good value for money to the customer as bundling expensive hardware with a game . 

 I think because of the nature of the casual demographic price cuts will have neglible effects, casuals could loose interest for reasons external to the Wii (maybe another gaming craze from Apple or something) wheras it's pretty much certain that the hardcore userbase will maintain their interest in the XBOX360/PS3 respetivley until they release the PS4/XBOX720 .

The Wii uses a formula which is different from the traditional approach , low tech , highly innovative , new demographic . WHilst this has resulted in record profitability , popularity etc the future of this kind of appraoch is uncertain , there is no historical data to rely on , Nintendo have no idea how loyal their userbase is.