Six million people to have a Wii by next year

Nintendo has predicted sales of six million units by next March for its upcoming home console, the Wii. That's according to Reuters, anyway. Furthermore, the company expects to have flogged over 17 million units of software during the current financial year.

Nintendo's predictions arrive as the company announced a 19 percent fall in annual operating profits, blamed on dwindling sales of the GameCube - that little purple thing in the corner of your room, just in case you've been wracking your brains, trying to remember what the hell it is for a while.

An annual operating profit of 110 billion yen is expected by the end of March 2007 - less than the predicted 113.74 billion yen by, er, some yen. Nintendo is hoping that the forthcoming Wii will give them ample excuse to roll around in a giant money pit shouting, "Rub my back Martha, there's a barnacle in my bathrobe!".

Via CVG

Also it will be selling for $250 or £135 pounds. Thats sure to help it.