The argument is not hard to fathom at all, that's why it's annoying to have you and others fail to address the argument and instead focusing on a completely irrelevant topic. This topic is NOT about the 240 million prediction. It's about the potential of this generation being the last generation of PlayStation consoles and by extention the XBox as well.

Obviously the numbers are completely irrelevant. IF the console market totally collapses on itself and the Wii U sells say 35 million units, the PS4 and XBox One sell 8 and 7 million and both Microsoft and Sony are forced out of the industry, will you be dancing on the rubbel of this thread calling out the OP when in that case it has proved itself to be 100% accurate?

That's what this topic is about, weekly updates on the gap to the immaterial sales prediction from a hundred years ago is completely irrelevant and brings nothing of value to the topic.

That does not deserve to even be discussed, if it were soley about that the thread would be locked anyway. It's not worthy of debate as it isn't going to happen, and then if it did, people would never flock to WiiU because it doesn't magically change the system.

That's not what he has based his predictions on either, unless he thought MS and Sony were gonna pack up game THIS holiday.

You are WRONG. This thread is about how Nintendo will dominate the compatition and force unity to the market by forcing Microsoft and Sony out of the market. The predictions are over the top and frankly more of a homage to his original (and legendary) Wii predictions. In the post that started this whole thing he was completely off on the scale, while the argument he made was still proved to be correct 5, 6 or 7 years later. And yes, the original crazy prediction caught as much flack then as they do now, and yes, people failed to see the argument and argued about immaterial details then as they do now.

Here is how you need to approach the numbers John Lucas has presented:

They are not actual numbers, they represent a meteoric rise and domination of the market for the Wii U. The point of the thread is to show how Nintendo will force third parties to accept their hardware and force Sony and Microsoft out of the market. That's the point of the thread. Not seeing that is pretty unimpressive to be brutally honest.

As I said before, if Nintendo ends up completely dominating this generation and forces Sony and Microsoft out of the console business, will you still say that this thread has failed because the final numbers were off by 100 000 000 units or whatever the case might be?

This basically confirms that you don't understand what the topic is even about. No wonder you think you're being logical and on topic.

The entire argument Lucas made was to back up his sales prediction. I'm not sure why you don't understand that. If you actually looked at his first prediction then you'll realize that Lucas predicted the "meteoric rise and domination of the market" would have already begun. Why else would he predict 12 million in sales before the year's end. I'm not seeing Sony and Microsoft being forced out of the market, in fact, I see them breaking records while the WiiU clings to pathetic sales.  

You are wrong again. The point of the thread is not to make a prediction about life time Wii U sales, it's to predict the evolution of the videogame market to where it will be completely dominated by Nintendo.

It's a fair thing to disagree with this prediction, as I have said myself, I share your pessimism that Sony and Microsoft will continue grinding the market down to the lowest possible denominator and leave it as impotent and bland as the movie industry. However, don't pretend that the sales of the three systems through this holiday has much impact on the points in the OP. What you and others are doing in this thread is basically hacking away at a strawman, the funny thing is that the strawman was set up by John Lucas himself :D