Topic starter has a habit of trolling on Nintendo.  Example:

BTFeather55 said: lt is no more overrated than Ocarina of Time is which was only rated as highly as it was because it was made by Nintendo and reviewed at a time when Nintendo had to have a big score to show the N64 wasn't totally worthless. Actually, FFVII-XII and MGS 1-4 and some of the GTA games including IV are all better games than TLOZOOT and the subsequent Zeldas.

This in a thread about FFVII...
OT:
"I predicted Wii sales would begin to slow down much as they have in Japan recently"
Let's ignore the fact that it's up YOY elsewhere and that console sales in Japan are low across the board.
"This idea was trounced upon by the Nintendo Wii fans who almost all said the Wii would be at or past 50 million in sales by the end of March."
Actually, this was a common belief among anyone who could compute basic math.  Others have already pointed out that the adjustments have made these predictions null and void.  Nintendo expects to ship around this ballpark figure by the end of the month.  I guess the Wii is going to die now because it's going to miss this figure within the margin of error.  
"Also, 150,000 a week in Europe isn't staggeringly high imo. My overall prediction about the Wii is that without pricecuts etc, then it will have a harder time selling its second fifty million than its first."
...in comparison to what, exactly?  See TWRoO's response. 
"Nintendo failed to really give gamers what they wanted in '08 and that is being reflected in their lowered sales numbers in Japan while 360 and PS3 numbers have close to being as high or have been even higher as of late."  
Then why, praytell, are their software sales so high?  Some games are outselling Sony's console on a weekly basis.  I think the gamers are getting what they want.  The core gamers have seen a release from many of Nintendo's major franchise in little over 2 years.  
Just because you want the Wii to stop selling, doesn't mean that it will.  Try again.  
 

^^Was supposed to have spaces...oh well.

Bolero, well aware =) Im bored and its the only half-intelligent conversation going on ;)

Overall I disagree with your assessment that the Wii is slowing down WW like Japan. That simply is not the case.

As for 50mil by end of march, it is possible as Nintendo will have ~51m produced by then. However, it isn't likely as the biggest area for improvement is Japan and that won't really change until Monster Hunter G Pack in April.

There really isn't any big games coming out until april/may. Only game I'm interested in until May is Madworld and that won't cause a major shift in sales.

BT should be the unoffical spokesperson for Ps3 like Bruce on games is for Xbox. I mean I actually found it amusing that Bardicverse was actually giving logical and well thought out responses to such rubish ;)

Nintendo software isn't up across the board. Just look at sales numbers for the best games across the board. Zach and Wiki, Okami, Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime 3. They are all pretty low Mario Galaxy by far the best game on the system doesn't have anywhere near the most sales of any game on the system. According to the chartz that goes to a pack-in that only sells well because it is a pack-in. So with the Wii you have three or four fair to middling games that have managed to sell well while the system's best games show an ability to sell nowhere near as well. The trouble with products like Wii Sports and Fit being the best sellers on your console is that you have no idea how second and later games in the series will do when there isn't much room for growth in what you can do from version to version. And little evince that people that like Wii Sports bowling are going to want to spend the money to get Wii Sports bowling 2. The second point is that when FFXIII comes out, for example, many more

bardicverse said: Bolero, well aware =) Im bored and its the only half-intelligent conversation going on ;)

 

Lol yeah.  The OTHERS sales thread degenerated into a KZ2 flame fest.  

BTFeather55 said: Nintendo software isn't up across the board. Just look at sales numbers for the best games across the board. Zach and Wiki, Okami, Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime 3. They are all pretty low Mario Galaxy by far the best game on the system doesn't have anywhere near the most sales of any game on the system. According to the chartz that goes to a pack-in that only sells well because it is a pack-in. So with the Wii you have three or four fair to middling games that have managed to sell well while the system's best games show an ability to sell nowhere near as well. The trouble with products like Wii Sports and Fit being the best sellers on your console is that you have no idea how second and later games in the series will do when there isn't much room for growth in what you can do from version to version. And little evince that people that like Wii Sports bowling are going to want to spend the money to get Wii Sports bowling 2. The second point is that when FFXIII comes out, for example, many more

....The first three aren't Nintendo software, RE4 actually sold better than the Gamecube version, and Corruption sold better than Echoes.

What's your point, exactly? why are you in this topic if not to talk about the subject line?

will see the advantages of certain types of games on the other systems when FFXIII, for example, is released. It will make Wii rps look as N64 rpgs would have looked in comparison to PS2 rpgs or worse.

I would say that this trolling needs to be locked but I must admit that it's pretty humorous. That and it makes for nice archiving purposes when this time next year we start hearing more "Wii doom!" and have old posts to display for the next predicter.