I will predict 1.6 Million copies sold, im so excited for this as Xenoblade is my favourite Wii game. With this and Bayonetta 2, i reckon more than just the Nintendo crowd will be interested in WiiU.

My prediction can be boiled down to "2(Current lifetime sales of Xenoblade Chronicles) = Lifetime sales of X". Since Xenoblade's current lifetime sales are, well, current and factual and set in stone, it cannot be considered a variable. A variable is supposed to represent any possible number, but in this case there is only one possible number for Xenoblade's current lifetime sales, thereby defeating the need for a variable. Why use a variable when we already know for sure the number it represents? Unlike your statement, where you're predicting the future sales of two platforms (and therefore using two variables unless you are a time traveller), I am only predicting the sales of a single item (predicting one variable). I think this is where comparisons between our predictions fall apart.

I love conversations like these.

shouldn't that be OUR job, praising the hell out of it if it's any good? That's actually what got me to buy Xenoblade; word of mouth seemed so damn good I couldn't resist!!