Very cool John. I was saying similar things and I knew that Nintendo was going to come back in a way people never would have expected, but you are pretty much spot on with everything at the time. Not that it was too hard to rationalize if you had an open mind about it. Most people are blind and gullible.

I'm surprised you aren't trying to find these people and rub it in a little, I would

It's Usenet. He has all the email addresses right there in the header of each reply!

I've been thinking about it. I love to look back on these things and see just how wrong people were. They could not see it and I was like "Wow." I won't be obnoxious with it, no, but I might look these guys up and ask them what they think about the gen now compared to what they said then.

Thanks to all for the compliments. They mean a lot to me.

Dryden, I AM a part of that "bored gamer" contingent which is probably why I felt that so well. I didn't keep up with game news for years by that time. I was more into playing what I already had and collecting "ol' school" games from pawn shops and used game stores (R.I.P. Rhino's *sniff*). I'm 31 BTW (prefer to call it twenty-eleven though).

JMan, thanks for highlighting those quotes from those doubters. I laugh everytime I read those. No vision whatsoever.

Right on KruzeS about people thinking DS & Wii were incomparable. They couldn't be more wrong. Those systems are the same philosophy in different bodies. Once DS succeeded Wii was in the bag.

Good breakdown JHawkNH. That is how you read a market. Taking the good and the bad, pros and cons and looking outside of the clubhouse to see every type of point of view. This is how I did mine. Understanding a little about human nature can't hurt either.

deadhorse, maybe I should use this on my resume to take Pachter's job eh? Hahahaha!

John Lucas

(Oh & I made all these soothsaying statements without knowing a thing about E3 2005. I had never even gone online to talk about gaming until summer of 2005. before then it was just EGM until 2002).

you are spot on, as always John :) we are lucky to have you here on this forum....why not start a fanclub for John?:P I would surely sign up any day:P

you are crazy John, in a very funny and intresting way, it's always worth reading you posts, keep it up!!

 scary, you just described my whole youth till now....

All I know is with how eerily close John was with predicting this whole gen it makes me want to believe in his 240,000,000 prediction. Oh and on the childhood thing hes got me pretty spot on too only I'm 21 I got my NES when I was 4 and started the PC gaming on Warcraft 2 although I did pick up that PS1 along the way :P . Skipped the last half of the 5th gen and had seriously reduced console time during the 6th thanks to MMORPGs. Which is the cause for me catching up now on stuff I never played like Windwaker and what not.

Why was this topic bumped from three months ago?

Wow, ... John Lucas = cousin of Sean Malstrom!

Some very funny predictions from the other people. My favorite was this one:

The Gamecube Wii will launch sometime after April, 2006. It will be seen as a godly machine by all the Nintendo fanboys but the general public will look at it and go "Huh?" The new controller design will be seen as a gimmick and not a very good one at that.

Whiteoutking: Why did you post if you want it to disappear again? seems counter productive.

Side note: With their emails listed on that forum, I wonder if anyone is dickish enough to quote them back to themselves and see if they claim they never said it.