Wii Will Sell Alot

Press Release from Nintendo:

The GameCube wasn't Nintendo's biggest success, but the company is looking to change its downward spiral in the console business with the Wii. Speaking to the Japanese press on the 9th, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said that for the Wii, hardware sales "two to three times that of GameCube is a possibility."

This would put the Wii at between 40 and 60 million units worldwide. Not quite PlayStation numbers, but it's possible that Iwata is just giving a conservative estimate.

i dont doubt nintendo will sell really well this time around. I think alot of people want to see the underdog come out on top and with the developments they made, i think it deserves to. The GC was just a game machine.. the wii is something that the worlds never really seen before.

Underdog? Nintendo was set to pwn the world (even with the minor name setback, which I liked from the beginning :) ), and E3 exemplified that. And the Wii really is just a gaming machine, except on steroids. That's all it's doing right now, gaming. I can't wait to get my hands on one! (Brawl, anyone?)

hmm after the gamecube nintendo's name was seriously tarnished here in Nz i think i have persuaded 3 people to buy a wii from the red steel footage alone xD times are a changin

Once this pure GAMEs machine hits the shops, everyone will want one, there will be wii all over the place...
Thats my opinion.

It will sell 4 times GC.

i remenber when Nintendo was the "Big N" before the PS1 and Gamecube came out.