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super_etecoon on 13 September 2008
FishyJoe said:

Sound familiar? From March 28, 2008:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=0&id=21922

leo-j said:

Ive seen some of your guys signatures, like neos and more users stating the wii will be almost at 50 million by this year's end, I dont understand why you guys beleive this, though what do you think will happen for the wii to reach that numbers since I think its impossible, what do you think that makes it possible?

The price? Increase in demand? Nintendo creating more wii's? What?

Why I expect the wii to end up with as much as 33 million consoles by the end of 2008:

I do not expect the wii to be something that every person in the world wants and it will no longer sell out sometime in mid 08, demand should be met at that point and sales should drop to around 360 levels.

Notice: I can be wrong, Im not a fortune teller than can tell the future like some people that have posted on this forum stating the wii "WILL" sell more than 40 million, meaning they already know what will happen in the future since they can predic it after all.

 

Thank You Fishy Joe!

I was looking all over for that thread.



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yoyo on 13 September 2008

the question is wether ps3 will hit 50 million.

just kidding, I think the wii will end up 40 million by 2008, but if they drop the price to say $200 and have enough stock then anything is possible.



Xen on 13 September 2008
super_etecoon said:
Xen said:
LOL @ 50 million and even more LOL @ 60 million.

How big do you think the holiday season is, people???

erm...who are you talking to?  No one has predicted 50 million in this thread.

 

Those "some users at VGC" and John Lucas :)

 



Millennium on 13 September 2008

No way will they hit 50 million by the end of 2008. They won't even be able to make that many Wiis, much less sell them. But they should get past the 40 million mark.



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Hephaestos on 13 September 2008

ermmm... supply constraints?



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tabsina on 13 September 2008

if they are supplied - yes
if they are not - no

my guess is that there won't be another 20mil supply of wii hitting stores by the end of the year.. so no.. it won't reach 50 mil



ceaser92 on 13 September 2008

18 million more wiis before the end of the year hell no



kingofwale on 13 September 2008

let's be fair, JL also predicted Wii's LT sales to be 500 million units sold... so 60 million prediction isn't as too nutty for him.


I'm going with 45 million. I see no reason why it would be higher than that, outside of it selling for $199



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souixan on 13 September 2008

Really it depends when you mean by 09. Are you going by calender dates or fiscal year? Nintendos prediction 49,000,000 by April 1st which is technically a start of Q1 2009 from the companies standpoint. Also keeping in mind up to date Nintendo has been reserved with the predictions I think 50,000,000 is possible barring any lack of supply. by 1/01/09 calender date I don't think it's possible, maybe 45,000,000 though.



JHawkNH on 13 September 2008

I will admit to being one of those that predicted 50 million by the end of 2008. Back at the begining of December 2007 I made some estimated gusses as to when and how much Nintendo would raise production. My estimate have been pretty must spot on, but I didn't expect that there would be so few consoles in Jan and Feb. My original estimates were 48.5 mill by the end of 2008, 20mill by the end of 2007 and 28.5 mil during 2008. So I rounded up the 28.5 to 30 because I am an optimst.

All that said, I won't be right with my original prediction. I can see now that Nintendo won't produce enough. I still expect 45-47 million by the end of 2008.