Is teh Wii doomed?? Who know but seems like everybody (even NIntendo) knows that the end of the cycle is near.

Jia Wu, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, "Global sales of the current generation of TV game consoles continued to fall in 2010 after peaking in 2008 when 46.5 million units were sold. The largest decline was seen by Nintendo’s Wii, whose unit sales fell by 24%. Both Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 have been helped by the introduction of new motion sensor experiences, and have capitalized on the lack of continued innovation on the Wii platform."

"Microsoft’s Kinect was clearly one of the winners in 2010," added Wu. "In the second half of 2010, the Xbox 360’s market share for the first time exceeded the 30% mark among the current generation fixed consoles, which was clearly driven by the Kinect launch."

David Mercer, Principal Analyst at Strategy Analytics, noted, "Nintendo must act quickly if it wants to avoid becoming an also-ran in the TV console market. The Wii’s time has passed and while the 3DS will help to boost its position in the handheld market, the company cannot afford to let the TV market slip away."

http://www.examiner.com/console-gaming-in-national/analyst-nintendo-risks-becoming-an-also-ran-console-market

I love how the blue keeps expanding!  :D

From the people who brought you the prediction of 127 million PS3s...

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=103336&page=1

Also their 2005 predictions for laughs and giggles

(Worldwide Through 2012)
Sony PS3 - 121.8 million (61%)
Xbox 360 - 58.8 million (30%)
Nintendo Wii - 18 million (9%)
Total - 198.6 million

Only 78.8 millions to go!!!!!

It is fun to laugh with other sites but you should seriously open some VG threads from 2007.. The average prediction back then was 'By 2010 PS3 is dead, MS would release their new console' The majority of the devs only would make games for teh Wii... The ones who didn't had an 40% Chance of getting bankrupt,  All who did not believe the Wii will have 50% marketshare at the end of this gen was basically an Idiot'  etc....

True their predictions are horrible but what I read on this site was not better.. 

I think they can ship that before the end of 2012..

The first prediction was from 2010.

What comes up goes down. This goes for all of them btw.

Dont worry ps3 wont catch the 360 u can sleep well now.

I remember some analyst predicting Wi isales to be 18M by 2012, and it's now March 2011, and where is Wii now?approaching 87M they are,  by march 2012 Wii will be at 102M Plus, so this analyst can suck lemons.