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Nintyfan90 said:
Mummelmann said:


You're very welcome, whomever's alt you may be. It truly is a ridiculous thread, but it had a lot of fans cheering for the OP, regardless of how ridiculous it was and that shows how unrealistic people's expectations were, while some of us saw where things were headed right away or even before launch.

Yes; the Xbox prediction is laughable as well, I'd even say that the PS4 one is, none of them are getting close to these targest when all is said and done. The Wii U will probably not be closer to the 20 million target than the One and PS4 to theirs though, 10 million sales in almost three years with all major releases besides Zelda and the ether filled to the brim with news and rumors on new hardware, paired with being more or less stationary weekly in the entire West will see to that sure enough. The next three years will not see another 10 million sales, it might struggle to sell more than half that if trends continue.

If it makes you laugh though, I'm glad to provide some light-hearted entertainment in your life. I'm also happy to see that any form of realistic thought on hardware sales is still considered "Ninty haters shitting on Wii U", as it has always been.

Wow, so you are actually taking that ridiculous thread seriously? Its a sad day for Sony fans when they have to resort to believing any nonsense they see. You realize that prediction was so unrealistic it would take a very retarded person to believe it? Its the internet lol those post in that thread are probably from you. Now that I think about it, that totally makes sense. You are always trying to push that thread as something serious. I wonder why I never see you bring up the old PS3 predictions? A rep from Sony expected PS2 like numbers but ofcourse you could careless. Good job revealing yourself even further, so you tell me which will be closes to its prediction?


Probably from me? I wrote several ridiculously huge posts in there, that's not exactly a secret. The reason I keep bringing it up is precisely due to its ridiculous nature, and it becomes more hilarious and ridiculous for each passing day and the OP has fled for dear life like we predicted.
It's not only about the hardware number itself; the whole premise and imaginary scenario of everything else crashing and "rules" like "the strongest console never wins", but most of all it's the obnoxious attitude of the OP and his posts that make me want to remind people of that thread.
For the OP; the thread is serious, which makes it all the more entertaining.

I have been here for 8 years and I never saw anything nearly as ridiculous for PS3 predictions or rhetoric, not even Crazzyman or Hus managed that at their worst/best. It has also been a very long time since I called myself a Sony fan, I turned completely away from console gaming in the 7th gen because I found that it sucked really badly (something you should know if you've been keeping tabs on me to the point of using "always" to describe my behavior) and I have also been one of the loudest voices to shut down ridiculous PS4 predictions in here for years, as well as described the PS4 as a platform as "complacent" and even "boring", the former description is found in that very thread I linked.
No one can rightly say that I haven't berated MS for their mistakes either, I was among the most vocal against mandatory Kinect and believe I may have been the first user to predict that it would hurt their sales and consequently be removed and made optional instead.

I still don't own any 8th gen consoles, I have an old PS3 here that I have bought a single game for in the past two years (FIFA 15). Everything else, I play on my PC. I find PC gaming to be phenomenal in comparison, ever since around 08.

PS: Yes, I will keep linking to the UNITY thread when the opportunity arises, the OP himself states that he will be remembered by it, he was less clear as to why that would be the case.



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Mummelmann said:


Probably from me? I wrote several ridiculously huge posts in there, that's not exactly a secret. The reason I keep bringing it up is precisely due to its ridiculous nature, and it becomes more hilarious and ridiculous for each passing day and the OP has fled for dear life like we predicted.
It's not only about the hardware number itself; the whole premise and imaginary scenario of everything else crashing and "rules" like "the strongest console never wins", but most of all it's the obnoxious attitude of the OP and his posts that make me want to remind people of that thread.
For the OP; the thread is serious, which makes it all the more entertaining.

I have been here for 8 years and I never saw anything nearly as ridiculous for PS3 predictions or rhetoric, not even Crazzyman or Hus managed that at their worst/best. It has also been a very long time since I called myself a Sony fan, I turned completely away from console gaming in the 7th gen because I found that it sucked really badly (something you should know if you've been keeping tabs on me to the point of using "always" to describe my behavior) and I have also been one of the loudest voices to shut down ridiculous PS4 predictions in here for years, as well as described the PS4 as a platform as "complacent" and even "boring", the former description is found in that very thread I linked.
No one can rightly say that I haven't berated MS for their mistakes either, I was among the most vocal against mandatory Kinect and believe I may have been the first user to predict that it would hurt their sales and consequently be removed and made optional instead.

I still don't own any 8th gen consoles, I have an old PS3 here that I have bought a single game for in the past two years (FIFA 15). Everything else, I play on my PC. I find PC gaming to be phenomenal in comparison, ever since around 08.

PS: Yes, I will keep linking to the UNITY thread when the opportunity arises, the OP himself states that he will be remembered by it, he was less clear as to why that would be the case.

You know the OP so well, I wonder why that is?



Nintyfan90 said:
Mummelmann said:
 


Probably from me? I wrote several ridiculously huge posts in there, that's not exactly a secret. The reason I keep bringing it up is precisely due to its ridiculous nature, and it becomes more hilarious and ridiculous for each passing day and the OP has fled for dear life like we predicted.
It's not only about the hardware number itself; the whole premise and imaginary scenario of everything else crashing and "rules" like "the strongest console never wins", but most of all it's the obnoxious attitude of the OP and his posts that make me want to remind people of that thread.
For the OP; the thread is serious, which makes it all the more entertaining.

I have been here for 8 years and I never saw anything nearly as ridiculous for PS3 predictions or rhetoric, not even Crazzyman or Hus managed that at their worst/best. It has also been a very long time since I called myself a Sony fan, I turned completely away from console gaming in the 7th gen because I found that it sucked really badly (something you should know if you've been keeping tabs on me to the point of using "always" to describe my behavior) and I have also been one of the loudest voices to shut down ridiculous PS4 predictions in here for years, as well as described the PS4 as a platform as "complacent" and even "boring", the former description is found in that very thread I linked.
No one can rightly say that I haven't berated MS for their mistakes either, I was among the most vocal against mandatory Kinect and believe I may have been the first user to predict that it would hurt their sales and consequently be removed and made optional instead.

I still don't own any 8th gen consoles, I have an old PS3 here that I have bought a single game for in the past two years (FIFA 15). Everything else, I play on my PC. I find PC gaming to be phenomenal in comparison, ever since around 08.

PS: Yes, I will keep linking to the UNITY thread when the opportunity arises, the OP himself states that he will be remembered by it, he was less clear as to why that would be the case.

You know the OP so well, I wonder why that is?


How do you mean? You think I know him in real life? I live in a completely different part of the world. I know the user account very well because he's been pulling the same stunt on this very site for 8-9 years now, ever since the early days of the Wii and I've had a running discussion with him ever since, but today he seems to run away from discussion rather than run discussion.



Whats is more LOL worthy is that he predicts that the X1 and Ps4 will have a difference of 10m when all is said and done.

As of right now, the difference is more than 10m between the two. So that means that the X1 will have to (somehow) close the gap and remain selling almost identical to the Ps4 monthly, which we know is factually impossible.

I just cant *sigh* and *smdh* enough when it comes to Pachter.

Also, the Wii U will never reach 20m. Never.



Goodnightmoon said:
chidori-chan2 said:


Your  is  terrible  though.  Anyways, That's no way WiiU would ever have reached the GC in a 100 years..

Not really, Patcher is being overoptimistic, that´s true,  but WiiU will probably end the year with +12m already and games like Pokken or Zelda are still coming, so unless you think NX is coming in May next year, that Zelda NX will be release before Zelda U and that the new console will be priced the same as the old one at the same time, I can´t see it doing "14 milions with luck"


Do you really think that Zelda and Pokken will push WiiU to 18-20M?

 

Yeah ok



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Now that he's aware of how wrong he usually is he's trying to doom Wii U even more. Such a dick move.



gatito said:
Now that he's aware of how wrong he usually is he's trying to doom Wii U even more. Such a dick move.


How so?



I find his PS4 predition possible if things keep on going well for it, Wii U one possible, despite current meh sales, if the next Ninty moves to support it go well and, above all, if Ninty doesn't kill it early.
XBOne looks overestimated and a classic case of some Americans thinking USA= World, but still possible too if MS manages to make XBOne sell better in the rest of the world.
As of now, with nothing changing, though, only PS4 one could be considered sensible, but the others make more sense too if we consider that it's quite reasonable to think that both MS and Ninty should try to make their products sell better.



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gatito said:
Now that he's aware of how wrong he usually is he's trying to doom Wii U even more. Such a dick move.


You think the Wii U will sell more than 20 million lifetime? If so, what will drive these sales? It will have to essentially double its installed base before exiting the market, and interest isn't exactly expected to increase in the coming years and it likely peaked last year. Market leaders may go on to sell decently once new hardware has released but distant 3rd tends to flicker and disappear fairly quickly.

There really aren't a lot of arguments left for 20 million or more right now.

That said; I'd like to know where he got his other figures from as well, they're both too high, especially the One. It would need to basically start selling on par with the PS4 from here on out to make those numbers and both would need to remain highly relevant for another 5 years or more, which seems increasingly unlikely from where I'm sitting.



Lol Patcher is still alive?