Yeah, WTF OP.  Your prediction completely failed to address the possibility of the Wii randomly stopping selling!  And Leo-j  DEFINITELY is not being hypocritical telling you to stop predicting while simulataneously having that signature!

I know guys, I know its possible anything can happen.

Im just saying that this gen isnt about trends.

WRONG 

The problem is your analysis of what the past trends were.  Instead of properly realizing the reasons behind the PS2's success and how the Wii more closely represents that strategy you chose to believe everything is wrong and the same trends no longer apply since the PS3 is not a runaway triumph.  Historical trends still apply, you just have to realize how to interpret them properly.

The Playstation 2 launched in Japan way before America or PAL, although I'm not sure of the exact dates. When you align the launches of all regions combined for both the Wii and the PS2, you'll see that while the Wii is ahead, it's not winning by as large a margin as you described. And the difference between the PS2 and PS3 is much larger. I'm sure the Wii will sell more than the PS2, but the DS is the winner of this generation anyways.

Never...Look it up in the dictionary and guess which version I'm using -_-

In what way? This generation has done nothing but follow trends honestly. You just have to understand what caused the past trends.

My question for the Wii is staying power.

Since it obviously has the inferior hardware...A far larger gap than any others up to this point...Will it have the staying power to be selling well in 2012?

@mrstickball

Wii's graphics don't matter at this point. Most HD games don't even fully support "HD" resolutions either.

In 2012, sales will be lower obviously, but I think it will be in the same situation the PS2 is now. The Wii's successor might be totally different, still making it a unique, cheaper, worthwhile purchase. The only thing that matters is 3rd party support. That should be around with a 65m+ userbase (assuming the Wii underperforms the next several years)

"Inferior" systems have won almost every "generation", don't forget that.

You are indeed correct that the Wii is inferior to the point that the gap between it and the HD consoles may be larger than any other gap in previous generations. 

However, the PS2 has older and less advanced hardware than the Wii and far worse than the HD consoles.  And yet since November of 2006 when the Wii and PS3 launched the PS2 has outsold both the PS3 and 360 by several million.

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 18th Nov 2006 to 16th Aug 2008:

If it can continue such sales 7-8 years after launch I see no reason why the Wii can't maintain decent sales 6 years after launch.  We have to remember that the people who will care about technical specs and which hardware is more powerful are for the most part considered the core gamers who buy consoles earlier in the product cycle.  The people who buy them later on are either (1) replacing defective consoles, or (2) casual gamers who were waiting for a lower price point.  Those casual gamers won't care that the Wii can't output HD resolutions or have high detailed textures.  If they did they would buy the Wii 2 or whatever successors are out on the market by 2012.

1. Your on a sales site Einstein. Predicting is what is suppose to go on
2. Ha ha "If the Wii stops sell." Oh, that's a good one, you should go in........you weren't joking.................oh........
3. Anything is possile, but not probable. It is probable to say the Wii could beat the PS2's sales record if the life span is long enough. It is probable to say the Wii will be first. It is improbable for the PS3 to be #1. Possibility is irrelivent since almost any senario could be possible, but that doesn't mean it's probable.