never read any of his previous papers but with the PS2 dominating everything then this years is the first article that would really challenge him - and he failed big time.

My god we're now into the 14th Month for the Wii and christmas has probably seen the best month for the Wii in terms of Sales, Software 1st and third party sales, advertising, word of mouth etc and there's still idiots like this who call themselves professionals on the whole Wii is a Fad point of view and dismissing it cos of his love of HD and specs. How many people are gonna apply old values to Nintendos new playing field - even though Nintendo have clearly shown they know best.

He predicts a new Wii model by christmas 08 - garbage IMO, Nintendo have stated time and time again that they have so many plans for the Wii they cannot implement cos of trying to meet demand and 08 may just be the year they meet that demand at some point so why would they then create new demand by releasing a new machine? If they are gonna release a machine with storage I reckon they will ensure that the old Wii can have some sort of storage solution also so they dont create a downloadable content can be downloaded on Wii X model but not Y type scenario.

 Extremely Amateur in my opinion

@gawalls,

keep in mind most people are still working from NPD data or quarterly reports so in a lot of ways we are far far more informed than the vast majority of people. I would even go so far as to say that some of our members are significantly more informed than so-called professionals.

I was thinking of typing a long reply, but Stever89 has pretty much summed up everything I would say.

It's just a bad article. Not because I disagree with it (which I do), but because it contains numerous factual errors that could have been cleared up with a little bit of market research:

• Stating that Pokemon was a 1997 fad, despite the fact that Diamond/Pearl sold over 10m copies in the past year.
• Stating that no Wii game would ever sell 5m, despite the fact that one already has (Wii Play) and several more are clearly nearing the mark.
• Stating that "no AAA game has come out yet" in this generation. I think by any definition of the term, Halo and Mario Galaxy would have to count.
• Stating that the PS3 is "picking up steam" in Japan.
• Claiming that a new DS and new Wii will be out before the end of 2008. (Huh?)

As Sqrl just posted, the average gamer is vastly more ignorant of sales trends than those of us at VGChartz. That's a major reason why these kind of editorials look so bizarre to us; you can get away with this sort of biased argument on gamefaqs or Gamespot, or whatever - but it won't fly here. Folks are too knowledgeable. I had hoped that by now we'd stop seeing these FUD attacks on the Wii, but I guess not. We'll probably hear them right up until the next generation, at which point in time everyone will claim that they saw the Wii's success from the beginning.

Quite funny, he thinks that Pokemon Phenomenon is dead when the last chapter "Diamond and Pearl" has sold over 10 million copy.

Where is the Wii Bingo ?

As a 41 year old gamer who lived through the burst in the 80's I do agree with him somewhat. I do need to ask the Wii fans that are members here are you the people purchasing and loving the vast majority of Wii games? Are you really eagerly awaiting WiiFit or just love the thought of a Wii title selling very well and adding more Wii consoles to people that most likely be purchasing the big time titles you want 3rd parties to start producing for the Wii. Do you really dig Carnival Games, WiiPlay, Mario Party 8,9,10,11? Is that what you want out of games?

The term "hardcore", according to Merriam-Webster dictionary: "a relatively small enduring core of society marked by apparent resistance to change"

Well, I'm not a Wii owner but I could say to you that I'm glad of the direction that Nintendo is pursuing with both Nintendo DS and Wii.

I laugh at the " boy’s treehouse " attitude. 

jogging and cycling.

I asked her about Wii Fit and she said they were thinking of getting it in their gym asw it's perfect for my type of injury to maintain balance and rebuild muscles.  Seems like it was made for me with it's balancing exercises

 People that express themselves openly are often banned for doing so and are accused of trolling and flamebaiting. So that is why most people can't be bothered.

I have followed his website for years but I wish he had spent as much time reaserching for this article as he does for one of his coversions. Personally I would have loved to see him make a portable Wii. He could have done it for VC games only and elimanted to sensor bar. That would have been awesome. Imagine the libarary of games on that portable. No, but thank god for the 360 laptop.

Most of the inaccuray has already been pointed out on this site but him pointing out how awesome Rock Band and GuitarHero are for his hardcore group on the 360, but there is no way anyone but soccer moms and terminal patients play casual games on the Wii. THat stuff just makes me sad. I think it is a fault of many american gamers to overstate the 360 because this market is muchdifferent than the rest of the world.

Also if he had been following Japan at all he would realize that the Wii/DS are what is preventing a crash, not causing it. 

Why is it that no 360 fans are ever willing to bring up the RROD in their wrapups?