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70,000,001

I'm really surprised that so many people think that it'll sell less than 70 million. The Wii's gonna have more games and better games (compared to 2008), production is going to be increased, colors may be introduced in Japan...

I also wanted to point out that the ranges are a bit messed up... Say you think it'll sell 70.5 million... do you go with "70 Million or Less" or "71-73 million." Just a small thing, but still.

I picked 77-78 million. In 2008 the Wii sold about 26.8 million units. With more games in 09, increased production (to about 2.8 million), and the possibility of price cuts and colors in Japan, sales can only really go up.

Well, I think anything less than 74m units is just crazy. Nintendo will sell 100% of what they produce next year, and they are going to produce at minimum 2.4m/month.

However, If I had suggested that the original range of choices be from 74m-86m and that is what was up, then we would have ~64% of the votes in the lowest category, and it would be spread pretty thin amongst the other ranges.

So 70m units means the Wii peaked and is no longer a complete sell out, and production isn't going up. You need to give options to everyone, and not corner them into picking what we think will be reasonable answers.

Now, what is also shocking is the large number of people picking 81m or more. To hit 81m units, they need to produce >2.9m/month starting last week. So in reality, they would have to go to 3.4m/month by July 1st, which I put in the highly unlikely category.

Now, as for the range <70 or 71-73 and wanting 70.5, well, just count in wholes millions.

76 million.

Check the sig

80 million.

i put fewer than 70 as thats wat i had predicted in my sig it will b higher than that though i hope not
but there is something to ponder just looking at the pole results so far it looks like we have a lot of Wii haters with the highest % being 70mill and lower

That is certainly something we learned the last go around with these sales predictions. 

I'm not sure how hating a console makes you underestimate its sales potential....but I suppose that's just how some people vote.  Perhaps I need to find some sort of formula to subtract the rabid fanboy response from the tally.  Probably would involve some very complicated algorithms or some such mathematical gibberish.

I'll go with 70 million.