Nintendo to Dominate 2008 with Wii & DS, Says Activision

By Adam Riley 08.02.2008 14

Activision recently spoke out during its recent earnings conference call about how it believes Nintendo will rule the North American market during 2008 thanks to its Wii and Nintendo DS systems. According to the company, Nintendo's Wii will be the out-right winner of the calendar year, selling over six million units at least, with the predicted runner-up being Microsoft's Xbox 360 with between four and five million units, followed by Sony's PlayStation 3 with around three-to-four million sold.

As for the Nintendo DS, Activision also reckons that between it and the PlayStation Portable, more than ten million hardware units will be sold this year.

Whatever the case, it certainly seems most people believe Nintendo is in for yet another prosperous sales year.

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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 08.02.2008#1

You mean you have to predict that?

Gawd Activision are slow. Smilie

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mooojc is offline. mooojc 08.02.2008#2

That's some pretty cool predictions.

 
Cheesing It Up is offline. Cheesing It Up 08.02.2008#3

I predict that gaming market analysts will make a similar prediction. Smilie

 
jb is offline. jb 08.02.2008#4

I predict a Riot

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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 08.02.2008#5

jb said:
I predict a Riot

Best thing to do is stay away from Ken Kutaragi I guess.

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tiamat1990 is offline. tiamat1990 08.02.2008#6

I think people are underestimating the Playstation 3 this year. It's not going to repeat last year. Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy XIII, Liittle Big Planet, Resistance 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV. Plus they're supposedly releasing a smaller version and I bet they're going to be dropping the price again some time this year.

 
Mason is offline. Mason 08.02.2008#7

I hope they're going to give it some decent support to reflect this then. Guitar Hero 3 was a good starting point.

 
Zapp is offline. Zapp 08.02.2008#8

jb said:
I predict a Riot

na na na na na na.....

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Cheesing It Up is offline. Cheesing It Up 09.02.2008#9

tiamat1990 said:
I think people are underestimating the Playstation 3 this year. It's not going to repeat last year. Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy XIII, Liittle Big Planet, Resistance 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV. Plus they're supposedly releasing a smaller version and I bet they're going to be dropping the price again some time this year.

Indeed, PS3 sales are definitely on an upward trend. Wii will surely still outsell it over the whole of 2008 though?

 
Satoshi is offline. Satoshi 09.02.2008#10

I swear I (and most people here) could easily become a games market analyst when we're older...

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mooojc is offline. mooojc 10.02.2008#11

There is no doubt PS3 will do very well next year, we'll just have to wait and see how it compares to the offerings of the Wii and Xbox360.

 
FlameyFruit is offline. FlameyFruit 10.02.2008#12

tiamat1990 said:
I think people are underestimating the Playstation 3 this year. It's not going to repeat last year. Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy XIII, Liittle Big Planet, Resistance 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV. Plus they're supposedly releasing a smaller version and I bet they're going to be dropping the price again some time this year.

You left out Devil May Cry 4 =.=||| Jeez
Anyhow, although PS3 might be pretty well this year, I yet not see it surpass Wii as the brawl will own it for at least a season XD
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yes, and that's it for my PREDICTION, haha, good job activision -.-

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Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 11.02.2008#13

tiamat1990 said:
I think people are underestimating the Playstation 3 this year. It's not going to repeat last year. Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy XIII, Liittle Big Planet, Resistance 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV.

Yes, PS3 will ge getting bigger this year. Great games yoming. But there where quite similar a number of games predicted for 2007 on Wii and there where not a lot of cores coming out back then.

and X360 had a lot of 'great games' and still was slow, in Germany it was last in Christmas sells. So 5 games don't make a summer (why, how lyrical).


Plus they're supposedly releasing a smaller version and I bet they're going to be dropping the price again some time this year.

No and no! They already released the smaller version, already dropped the price!


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about how it believes Nintendo will rule the North American market during 2008 thanks to its Wii and Nintendo DS systems.

Then give us core games! And good ones.
Wait: Does Activision actually has any good IPs woth playing? EA has none... Activision is more bad then EA so... no! *lol*

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
CuRoi is offline. CuRoi 14.02.2008#14

You left out Devil May Cry 4 =.=||| Jeez

Tis multi platform though.

 

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