I wanted to try something here. I'm going to set some guidelines for this thread, and I really hope you follow them, though of course I have no way of enforcing them. It's a very simple concept. Everyone state your predictions for total worldwide hardware sales for the 3 home consoles and 2 portable consoles by January 1st, 2008. I will make a sample post below. Please don't make any commentary or trolls or anything else, just your numbers. We'll keep this going until April 1st, then leave it alone until next year, when we can pull it up and discuss how close we all got. Again, I have no control over anyone's post, but I would really appreciate it if everyone would oblige me and actually follow the guidelines. Anyone can feel free to make an accompanying thread for comments. 7 weeks, 1 day until April 1st.

Wii: 14m Xbox360: 12.5m PS3: 5m DS: 54m PSP: 24m

Wii- 16 million X360- 14 million PS3- 10 million DS- 55 million PSP- 26 million

Wii- 15.5 million X360- 14 million PS3- 9 million DS- 60 million PSP- 28 million

Cumulative bases: Japan North America Others Total (05'-07') Wii 6 million 6 million 4 million 16 million PS3 3 million 4 million 2.5 million 9.5 million 360 .5 mill 9 million 7 million 16.5 million DS: 50 million (20-14-16) PSP: 29 million (8-11-10)

Wii - 10million 360 - 14 million PS3 - 10million

You apparently not many people liked my idea...pity, I thought it would be fun.

Alright, fuck the paremeters, everyone just talk about what you think the console war will look like in January '08. Be sure to be able to back up your reasoning with...something...anything...please. (Yes, I'm looking at you, you know who you are.)