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plzdontbanme said:
JL is an idiotic Nintendo fanboy. Nothing more.

And you're a pathetic moron. Nothing more.

 



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MC has wii fit at 261k, this is false.



currently playing: Skyward Sword, Mario Sunshine, Xenoblade Chronicles X

Can we stop bumping this thread? It's already been prove false/debunked by a lot of us, even the source doesn't state 135.8k. Let this be the final post on this thread ever and stop spreading mis-information.



I am a PC gamer, and also have a NDS now, but without access to a Nintendo Wii until End of 2007.

Currently playing: Super Smash Brothers Brawl(Wii), Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer(DS), Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (DS), WiiFit(Wii)

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1 word: RTFA

This thread is great. It's a monument to the desperation some people have for Wii Fit to fail.



This is much much less than I expected too, Japan is a curious creature indeed.



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plzdontbanme said:
JL is an idiotic Nintendo fanboy. Nothing more.

 No, he's a brilliant visionary. However, like most brilliant visionaries, he's ape sh*t crazy. Its easy to get confused on that.

 

 

Love ya John. Keep doing what you do! 



I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do. 

Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.

Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!

Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.

Arcturus said:
johnlucas said:


Besides the prediction in full was about Wii Fit worldwide all 1st weeks combined. I simply specified Japan accounting for the staggered launch.

Even if Japan fails on me the prediction is still on until Wii Fit releases in all territories. I'll only be eating a couple of black feathers instead of the whole bird.

Prediction is still on.

John Lucas


I'm a bit confused as to what your actual prediction is now. In the original thread you say:

"Wii Fit in Japan *alone* will TRUMP the godsmacking sales of Halo 3 on its opening week."

and in your sig you say:

"Wii Fit will trump the opening week sales of Halo 3 in Japan alone much less counting all territories combined."

Now you're saying that the prediction is for worldwide 1st week sales in all territories combined, and not Japan alone? Which is it? Are you predicting Wii Fit will sell more than 3.7M in one week in Japan alone or in all territories combined?

 


John Lucas, your response?

We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

WiiFit did around 250k - that 130k is just a mistake, or a "too early" figure.

Its a fantastic start - and it may well sell another 200k this week, and get close to 1m sold by the end of the year.

(lets not forget that it launches in the US on the 1st Jan '08!)



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oh does it really launch in the US 1-1-08? sweet. i'll make my first ever preorder.

about johnlucas: of course he knows WiiFit isn't gonna sell 4 million week 1. the point is that he understands the direction of the market.



the Wii is an epidemic.

If it doesn't do at least 500,000 in Japan by the end of the year it's a failure considering the huge expectations. Although I think it will probably do 600-800K end of year in Japan it is interesting that some people thought it would do millions within a few weeks.
Will be interesting to see how well it does in America and Europe.