PS3 uses the power of 4D technology to travel back in time and destroy Wii in the past

People were predicting the DreamCast would overtake the PS2 as the console of its generation right on up until its production was canned. It's just an unavoidable fact: there will always be those who want reality to reflect their preferences, and who cannot accept that the universe at large has no regard for them.

 Yeah, but there is a point where the sane must accept that some things are not going to happen

And what makes you think that humans are sane by default? Or any lifeform, for that matter? Sanity is a byproduct of societies and their ideals, not a concrete reality. What you're expecting, really, is that they be logical. Which is a surprisingly difficult thing to ask of many people, as logic is not the default fall-back reasoning method for most humans.

"Research firm iSuppli, who forecast earlier this month that Nintendo's Gamecube would eek out a victory in the console war by 2006, has told Reuters that 2003 will be a "turning year" for the Gamecube. "Nintendo is offering a better forthcoming software pipeline with blockbuster titles like Zelda Wind Waker, which will boost Gamecube sales this year," said iSuppli analyst Pamela Tufegdzic.

Importantly, Tufegdzic is looking at Sony's Playstation 2 audience as a driver of Gamecube sales. She believes Nintendo will drop the price on its console enticing PS2 owners to finally get a second, more powerful system. "We anticipate Nintendo will have another price slash on the Gamecube this year, and come Christmas, consumers who originally bought the PS2 will likely purchase the Gamecube," Tufegdzic said. "The battle over consoles ultimately boils down to price."

See? Just so some users reconsider the accuracy that these people could have... but I doubt they will.

There is a good chance that they actually believe they are right which is probably the scariest part =/

What I want to know is what they are going to say in a few months when the Wii is crossing 30m well before the end of the year and with the holidays to come.

Also for those wondering how consoles unsell...I think their point of contention is that they always refer to it as "install base" and as a result they have some formula for rate of decay for determining when a console is no longer in use. Considering there are very few stats on that sort of thing it is possible that they estimate the Wii to sell more but to still "lose" under their setup.

Chances the Wii only sells 7m units between 2008 and 2011... zero.

Priceless!

 I recall that their rationale is that around 2010-11, the next generation of consoles will pop up, at which point 360 and Wii users with failed systems will choose to replace them with the Xbox 720 and the Wii 2, thus reducing the install base for these systems.

The PS3 is future proof, of course, and so will continue selling well into 2016, when the PS4 is released.

I can't find the graph in the linked page. Was it pulled?