So in that rambling post does he say whether or not he is sticking with 12 million Wii U's by year end?  I did skim it and see that he expects 50 million for the 3DS by the end of the year.  Of course that is more than Nintendo's ever optimistic forecast expects to ship by the end of March 2014.  To put it into perspective, if we say the rest of the year is the seven weeks ending December 28th, the 3DS will need to average 1.86 million per week to hit 50 million.  That would be 50% higher than its best week last year, and 28% higher than its best week in 2011.

Though perhaps he was referring to the fiscal year.  It would still be a stretch there though.

God knows. Cant post in John Lucas's private conversation anymore. Dunno why. Maybe cause of my Iraqi information minister posts. Anywas, i'm curious as to how Zod95 is going to respond. In any case, hilarity will ensue.

I do think my Nintendo fanboyism has come into question. I just wanna clarify something; My 4 favorite franshises of all time is Legend of Zelda, Soul Calibur and 2D mario bros games. As well as the Heroes of Might and Magic series (bar the 3 last iterations). I will buy any console who has a new itertion of any of these franchises. 

Course he doesn't it. He's just gonna ignore it and when it doesn't come true he won't even acknowledge his failed prediction. Will just keep talking about the glory days, I actually don't know the purpose of this thread anymore.

But like I and others have said, people will fool themselves into believeing anything they like if they try hard enough.

Whatever your opinion of johnlucas's predictions, that post was magnificent.

I'd also like an update about his prediction that it would handily outsell the PS4 throughout the generation.

This discussion is taking too much of my time for too long. And, quite frankly, I think we could already understand the views of each other. I'm sorry but I will have to stop. I will just make some quick answers to some of your points:

1 - Map Size: area that the player can step into. If cars can go off the road, that area counts too.

2 - British racing games and very different from American racing games and any fan of the genre can tell you that. Also, there are British devs that make American-style racing games.

3 - I have Eye Of Judgment so I can tell you that's a puzzle-style game. There are 9 holes and the first to conquer 5 wins. You don't just throw the cards on the table, you, you plan a way to fit them well in the field (like a chess game) depending on the type of cards you have. Either that can be puzzle or puzzle can't be a genre (if it's too specific).

how do you guys feel about ps4's first day sales in the US?

it suny but with clouds on the sky that could bring out hell.

sure it maybe less then 1% with overheating or broken ps4 but we dont know if it are only fault consoles (the seemingly sabotage in the foxcon company) or overall hardware fault that just lay domant with others.

I feel as alwaysg, good! I also feel a little envious of people on the US. We won't get the console until the 29th of november! Also it will cost US$1130 so not many people are going to buy it here in Argentina (inlcuding me).

Every couple days or so I come here to read the last page of this thread, just to see where it is up to and more importantly to see if John Lucas has posted.

It's always nowhere and John Lucas still hasn't posted.