Awesomeness FTW.

Sure it won't...when will people understand that every big game sells some systems. People said they same thing about Halo Reach, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Donkey Kong Country Returns...I just don't get it Lol.

Actually no when will people learn that it is the library that sells systems not individual games at this stage. When you have 80 (Wii), 50 (360) 45 (PS3) million consoles sold and 100s of games available for each it isnt a single game that pushes console sales. It is simply the library and the knowledge that the console will continue to be supported by games.  Wasnt the launch of GT5 enough to prove it. I am talking about real measurable hardware sales changes. Of course Move and Kinect are somewhat different. They took away the single biggest differentiator that Nintendo had with the Wii.

Single games don't have much pull on their own maybe, but at this time in a consoles life they can easily be the tipping point along with a small handfull of other games. After all there are a lot of people who buy consoles and only get about 5 games for them ever, otherwise those of us with dozens of games would be able to pull the attach ratios up a bit more (which I think this generation is quite high compared to the past, but still remains around 9-10 games per system)

For example, before the Wii I was considering skipping this gen due to money reasons, perhaps topping up a few GC games then maybe getting a console for the following generation... if I had done that I could relatively easily have changed my mind with Zelda: Skyward Swords release.

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For avid gamers, it's all about the library (or given that they are early adopters: the anticipation of a library) for many more casual gamers it's about a small selection of games, perhaps even a single franchise... the last few years of the PS2 have likely had a big portion buying it just for the GTA games, or just for singstar or buzz. And in fact, another section of gaming is the sports sim... a lot of people will just buy a console and the odd madden or FIFA game (though I don't think they would generally be late adopters, and are more likely to buy the hardware with the first or second of their chosen sports game release)

Okay, sure. I bet that the Wii will not overshoot my prediction by a minimum of 1 million versus your prediction that it will outperform last years numbers.

I've had crow before, the trick is to use lots and lots of condiments!

:O. That's not what I was betting, :P. I might as well eat crow now if I'm gonna make that bet. Even I heavily doubt it'll get close to last year's numbers, just saying that it'll outdo your prediction hugely. No fun making a bet when both of us will more likely than not eat crow.

Just remember to upload pictures!

Mmm...

Do you know the word "games that have not yet been announced and that might turn into big hits and catapult the Wii?". And I know this has nineteens words.

Monter Hunter sure sold a lot of PSPs.

And you gotta be joking if you think motion controls are what made the Wii sucessfull. If it was, crappy third parties with motion tacked on their games would have huge sucess, what you can't say about all of their games.

Yummy, that sure looks tasty.