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Glad yall seem to like the article and yes it's what we all have been saying for a while, but now we have some proof for the nay sayers out there, and crackpot theorists trying to say it was all planned from the start, then some answers for the people out there that are angry about not being able to get their Wii's, I'm sure there's a lot more in store this year for Wii, they have lots of plans and now have their market to act on those plans, both systems they have out are basically printing money for them so they definitely have the fiscal budget this year as well.

*hopes* VO and live orchestra for all Nintedo games! New Zelda, new handheld!

*realism* well probably only new games, and from the IGN Wii staff they know about an old Nintendo franchise that is coming back that is strictly for the "hardcore" so expect more surprises Nintendo is going to try to satisfy everyone from the "casual" to "hardcore" and I believe the lines between the both will become more blurred this year, maybe some hardcore titles that old grandma could get up and play.



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Hopefully we'll see a huge Hardware production increase and have the Wii hit John Lucas' predicted 60 million by the end of 2008.



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Somewhere, JL is laughing at the naysayers



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

Avinash_Tyagi said:
Somewhere, JL is laughing at the naysayers

Somewhere? He does it here, all the time!

 

Of course with insight like his, he sure deserves to. His occasional craziness only makes laughing more appropriate. 



Where is good ol' JL's comment on this? He would like the article.



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Time to make a big risk this year in order to meet demand.



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jheco05 said:
Time to make a big risk this year in order to meet demand.

 Indeed!  I would say increase production over DS levels, but that's just my view, and it is a slow process so maybe not until after March will we see the upping of supply, October was a good showing of how it was going to do the next two months and if it takes six months to plan out these increases around or after March would be a good increase point in my observation.



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