Did they pan out? Well, good news and bad news.
Here's what the Associated Press had to say:
TOKYO - Japanese game manufacturer Nintendo Co. lowered its earnings forecast for the recently ended fiscal year on Monday, citing slower-than-expected sales of its GameCube console.
The Kyoto-based maker of the Super Mario and Pokemon video games expects to report earnings of 66 billion yen ($547 million) compared with its earlier forecast of 80 billion yen ($663 million) in profits. It said GameCube sales totaled 5.6 million machines and failed to reach the target of 10 million for the year ended March 31, said company spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa.
Nintendo also cut its sales projection for the past fiscal year to 500 billion yen ($4 billion) from 600 billion yen ($5 billion).
Profits for the fiscal year ended March 2002 totaled 106 billion yen ($878 million) on sales of 555 billion yen ($4.6 billion).
Here's a little more: GBA sales were actually higher than expected, with 15.7 million units, according to CNET.