this is dumb. its easy to say they're bad predictions now.

back then nobody would have said the wii would be leading. you would have been an idiot to think that.

i bet most of the rabid ninty fanboys on this site didn't be on the wii to win this gen.

Thanks to this analyst any 3rd party had faith on Wii and Wii had a very weak third party library in this first 18 months.

As soon as I saw the Wii, I invested in Nintendo stock. I've made over 350% on my initial investment.

I guess that makes me an idiot. 

Phil Harrison Sony SCEE president of worldwide studios says these things, in press interviews about the Nintendo DS, at the beginning of the war

"With the DS, it's fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a feature differentiation with the touch screen, but I fear that it won't have a lasting impact beyond that of a gimmick - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that."

"Nintendo knows its target audience, because it has really narrowed that down; and it's pretty much defined by a boy or girl's ability to admire Pokemon."

"The idea of a handheld rivalry with Nintendo is an irrelevance, those formats don't appear in our planning. It's not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it's the truth."

Do I win this topic, lol? 

Wow, Harrison really comes across as an asshole here, especially with those last two statements.

It's funny that he said Nintendo has a very narrow target audience, when Nintendo is the innovator currently expanding the audience.  Phil Harrison should get on his knees and thank Nintendo for that, because when Sony wakes up from their current nightmare Nintendo's recent work in increasing the overall audience of gamers will help them as well as Nintendo and will be good for gamers everywhere.

lol @ Zen

nice post :)

THIS IS SO COOL
I found the entire GameSpot April Fools Joke (Possibly the most accurate thing they ever wrote (LO))

"We expect Nintendo's Revolution, based on its price and immense catalog of downloadable games, to be the market leader by 2010," Runte told GameSpot News. "Nintendo is going to be one heck of a competitor for the gaming pie, and from the looks of it, I think they are going to get a rather huge slice."

Runte says it's not only that Nintendo has "superior strategy" and is "totally awesome"; it's Nintendo's rivals' weaknesses that give the Revolution the advantage. He dismisses the competition as a non-factor and had particularly harsh words for Sony.

"Sony has yet to come out of the pit stop after the first lap. Folks, when this race started, naysayers said Nintendo would not have enough under the engine to compete with Microsoft and Sony. Trying to one-up Nintendo like they did with them wanting to make a Revolution-style controller after it was revealed and oohed and aahed over... Nintendo is back in a big way. I think Nintendo will own them all. I believe they are on the path to domination once again. I think they finally are giving people what they want and continuing to give them things they never thought of."

-Gamespot, April Fool's Joke 2005

It is a series of articles that I do not know when they began but they are still being written now. I highly recommend them,

 Malstrom's Articles

CONTENT
Before the Revolution
Malstrom's Casual Article Division
Blue Ocean Articles
Disruption Chronicles
Ludology

Don't forget his earlier articles, several of which predate the launch of the Wii.

http://thewiikly.zogdog.com/author.php?author=8