Sextillion is one followed by 21 zeros, but you've written 10 the the power of 23 which means there's additional 2 zeros to the sextillion making it 100 Sextillion but also you've put 6 which makes it 600 Sextillion.

I can't remember if I thought that exactly, but I certainly thought it would outdo PS2 by plenty. Back then though I was sure at least some third parties would submit to investor pressure and genuinely support the Wii. Any year now....

Hitting out at 100M would be good enough, it would be the first Nintendo home console to break the 100M barrier.

Too bad that avinash_tyagi doesn't visit these forums anymore. If I remember right he predicted that Wii would outsell whole Playstation Family (PS1, PS2,PSP, PS3..) =D

My two reasons

1)XBOX360

2)PS3

end of discussion/

Classic NES had a redesign, SNES also. But I don't know how successful they were, if at all.

Wii redesign might help.  The Black Wii didn't seen to help much, even though it looks better (I want one).  But the problem with it (for those looking for a second/replacement wii) is that you cannot transfer most of the DLC and the fact that it comes with games you already have.

Software, well I think that is Wii's major problem right now.  first party titles sell well and move some HW, but third parties are needed to keep a good flow of games throughout the year.  After last awesome Wii christmas, I was expecting a shift from 3rd parties but it actually went the other way.

I agree with pretty much everything you said. Japan especially dropped the ball on supportin the Wii over the years. They had a PS2 right there for em and they just neglected to literally go for broke and do PS3/360 games. Granted some succeeded, but several more failed.

Now on a positive note, I at least wanna provide a list of the Wiis chances to actually beat PS2. It is...69m behind at the moment, but it has 5 years and some change to catch up. Here's what could happen:

Donkey Kong Country could at least cause 70% of the sales the Wii got from Nov.15-Jan 2 last year (this 70% would equal ~6.75 million) worldwide.

Zelda could push consoles for 1-3 weeks. If it somehow goes evergreen, that could extend by double (4-8 weeks). IMO it will at least push.... 30k in the week of its release in America, 10k in Japan, and...20k in EMEAA. Ads are key for this bad boy. I see 6.04m in its future- that has to push some units.

Dragon Quest X. This game...should manage at least 1.5m in Japan when it debuts on the Wii....in a year or 1 1/2. It can move units in Japan but I'd venture a guess that a Wii Price Cut would join it. 300k Americas/ 2.6 m Japan / 400k EMEAA is a rough guess for now for the games sales. In Japan... I could see 70k Wiis shipping out that week, 30k the next.

Vitality Sensor- this is a wildcard. If it takes off like Wii Fit did...Wii could have HUGE momentum. IDK anything about it so my guess is as good as anyone elses.

Wii Party- this should assist DKCR this holiday in pushing units. It has hit written all over it yet no one... no one really cares at the moment. HW increases will come too late to judge if this game is responsible, and plus it would take about 6-8 weeks anyways.

The Last Story- destined to be bigger than Xenoblade but I can't be sure. Could push like 10k if its excellent.

Price drops- need to come in with some bangin software. What that  could be, I have no clue but this is an obvious DETAIL.

Honorable sustenance mentions (games that just remind people the Wii is still alive; these are important too) go out to: Conduit 2, Goldeneye, The Grinder, Inazuma Wii, Activision rehashes, MW2 Reflex [its coming trust me], next year's Sonic, Rabbids 14, uDraw, XSEEDs next few titles, Pikmin 3, and maybe another Wario.

....and Kirby

wii outsold the ps3 and the 360 almost all year long without any game or price cut, wii is a beats during the holidays, I hope it wont but I fear it will

I guess our local distributor is content with small amount of Wii selling without any of his efforts so he doesn't try. And it's also similar for DS (altrough still DS situation is much better). We might be one of extremly few countries where psp is more popular :)

I think the main reasons are  a lack of remodel, and a high reliability. How many 360s would have been sold if it had a reliability as high as the Wii's? It makes a lot of difference.