60 million is simply not gonna happen

unless............Ninty triples their # of factories and gives them away for free

that's the only way i c 60 m;n happenning

 LOL.  PS3 is doing very respectably vs. 360, and it's supposed to be a BAD thing that Sony is making shitloads of extra money by selling PS2s at a very high profit margin?  Ok....

 You know, one thing is Sony's favor is that "unbelievably the PS2 has outsold the 360 worldwide so far in 2008."

 And, hasn't the PS3, too?

 Yep, Sony's situation is as "bleak as ever."  ...

too long, didn't read it all.

All I'll say is, I bet a week ban it won't reach 60 million by years end

 Actually, that's what makes him worse. Crazzy was just ignorant at times. but JL could rationalize his thinking and able to come up with reasonable arguements, yet his predictions are completely wacko.

You don't have to watch out for crazy people, it's the sane one you have to be careful ;)

300k/week X 36 weeks left = 10.8 million
10.8 million + 2.4 for holidays = 13.2 for the rest of 08.
22.45+13.2 = 35.65 million

This is just the current sales no serious production increases or extra for new regions... this brings the total to 35.65 million at the end of 2008.

Let's say they get 1 million a week for the holidays, this means an extra 400k a week for 8 weeks, this adds another 3.2 million or a total of 38.85 million.

In June they get production up by an extra 100k a week, that is 26 weeks * 50k = 2.6 million or 41.45 million total.

If they brought China in to the show, with an addition 80k per week in June (just a guess) = 80k * 26 = 2.08 or 43.53

Still no where near 60 million, they would need to make and sell an additional 667k per week for the rest of the year. (from where we are now.)

Indeed. As seen above in this thread, john lucas also predicted that MGS4 would never appear on a PS3 because it would go to 360. I don't think Sony has any plans to cancel their MGS4 bundle, do they? In fact, it looks very unlikely to ever go to 360 as many people have been saying for months. Konami is lettin Sony produce the MGS movie and now includin their game in a bundle. They've clearly had a deal but john lucas just wants the Playstation brand to crumble for whatever reason. It's going to be hard for the Wii to maintain momentum as the curent-gen systems (graphics-wise) continue to get huge exclusives (both individually and multiplats not on the Wii). john lucas cited Brawl, Kart, Fit, and lucas arts as reasons for the Wii to dominate this year (as well as other third parties). GTA, GT5, RE5, FF13, Gears, GoW3, etc might not bring in exercise fans, but are certanly very popular. GTA, GT, and FF outsell Brawl and Kart. Also, judging by Nintendo's own comments, Wii Fit isn't for exercise anyway. If you want exercise, get DDR. If you want to "understand your body," get WiiFit...or Yoga videos. Anyway, it's pretty obvious the Wii isn't going to reach 60 million this year, and it's not going to even be close (like he was close with 20 million but still wrong as usual).

Why did you bring this thread back to life after it was dumped months ago?

Duh, cos this thread is duscussing the Wiis sales during 2008?

yeah, that seemed pretty obvious, leo-j.

Danny stated he will keep bringing it up. That's fine, because john lucas and others kept bringing up his supposedly correct prediction last year. He's wrong a lot.