Not really. The SNES came out almost 2 years after the Genisis, yet, it still bet the Genisis in sales by a fair margin. Granted, NES was still outselling Genisis prior to the SNES, but, meh. The PS2 has outsold the PS3 for pretty much the entire year.

You'd think so Chadius... you'd think so.

I don't really understand the reasoning behind most of the arguments that the Wii will (suddenly) die off in a couple of years. I don't expect the PS3 or XBox 360 to be inexpensive enough to really tap into the mainstream buying market until 2009 or 2010 because most console purchases are made at $200 or less; this means that for the next 12 to 24 months the Wii is (essentially) without competition because the XBox 360 and PS3 will be too expensive.

As the PS3 and XBox 360 come down in price the Wii will also see lower prices and/or increased value from bundles; when either systems hardware is $300 you could see a $200 Wii that is bundled with a high quality game (Mario, Zelda, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, or Metriod Prime) with 2 Wiimotes, 2 Nunchucks, and Wii Sports which I expect will be seen as a screaming deal. When the XBox 360 and PS3 are approaching $200 the Wii could be $150 or $99 and there will always be people who are willing to spend $99 on a gaming system regardless of the quality of graphics.

Even if you do assume that as the PS3 and XBox 360 hit $200 people will suddenly become (far) more interested in them, and the sales of the Wii start to falter the likely time for this to happen will be 2010; to a certain extent this really plays well into Nintendo's hands for the following generation because they can produce a system which is halfway between the PS3 and PS4 in terms of performance, is cost effective, and release it in 2011 to an existing userbase of Wii owners who are looking for a more powerful console.

It's the same reasoning that allows people to believe that the PS3's price will suddenly stop mattering and that it will fly past the 360 in 2009.

Rational thinking and fanboys don't mix.

Here's another prediction: After an unprecidented string of flops.. Sega will go out of business in two years.

how long has people been saying the ps3 will outsell another console, and it still hasn't even broke the 10 million mark yet.

well actually they said it was sell 4 million mario vs sonic's on DS and Wii combined

 FF13 is incredibly unlikely, GT could happen, not easily, but it could.

Nah, they're too good at milking Tomb Raider at the moment.