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famousringo on 04 January 2009

I'm in the 45 club, too.

80 million makes sense, actually. It's a little high, and would require another manufacturing increase. But when you consider that sellouts at current production rates guarantees 29 million for '09, and that supply still wasn't adequate in '08, you realize that 75 million is pretty much the minimum total for the Wii this year.



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Commando on 04 January 2009

Congrats!!



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N.Genckel on 04 January 2009

Good job! Your 50% markedshare prediction didn't come true, but it was close.



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Kantor on 04 January 2009

80 million is possible, definitely. Passing the PS2 by end 2010 is easy.

As for the Wii selling over 350 million units by 2015...no.



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TWRoO on 04 January 2009

I predicted 46 million in January of 2008, a number of people predicted more than that before me though.

And 80 million for 2009 sounds ok, I am predicting 77 million.

However, I am not so insane as to be predicting over 130 million for the end of 2010, If the Wii makes 80 million in 2009 that means a pretty huge increase to 50 million in 2010 for it to catch the PS2. I would be predicting late 2011 for the Wii to catch PS2.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 04 January 2009
Kantor said:
80 million is possible, definitely. Passing the PS2 by end 2010 is easy.

As for the Wii selling over 350 million units by 2015...no.

 

 My prediction doesn't include the PSP, only the consoles



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)