Industry predict-a-tron Michael Pachter is getting his rough estimates in early this month. Speaking to VG247.com ahead of his ‘official’ sales estimates in a week’s time, he suggested that Nintendo would be celebrating another incredible month for Wii, with sales up 100%, making for a staggering 3 million consoles sold during the month of December.

By comparison, Pachter surmised that the Xbox 360 sold less than half that amount, at around 1.2-1.3 million consoles, with Sony’s PS3 limping home with a comparatively measly but not-all-that-bad-when-you-think-about-it 700,000. Crikey.

Once again, gaming laughs in the face of impending economic doom. But here’s another prediction: 2009’s likely to be a bit trickier - even for Nintendo.

In other not-really-related news (but it’s too small to have its own story, and I needed a pic for this piece that wasn’t just a shot of Pachter), Another Code R’s release has been delayed by a couple of weeks in Japan, according to this here post on Nintendo of Japan’s site. You can have that one for nowt, folks.

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This entry was posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 4:42 pm by Chris Schilling
(possibly faulty) predictions, Nintendomination, Rivals, Wii, success.