We guess those strong January sales were just the beginning, as according to Merrill Lynch analyst Yoshiyuki Kinoshita, more than 30% of homes in the United States will have a Wii by the year 2011. This prediction is also applied to the Japanese market, where Kinoshita says the number could be as high as 33% (right now, the Wii accounts for 68% of the new-gen market there). Isn't this prediction kind of premature though? With the console's release only a few months in, could we honestly expect the high demand and low supply of the console enjoyed by Nintendo now to stretch into 2008, let alone span several years? Probably not, but can we expect the popularity of Nintendo's console to increase as more AAA titles are released by the company over the course of 2007? Absolutely.
[via Joystiq]
