A favorite game among analysts in the tech world is to try and predict the sales of the iPhone for a specific period, or in general make any iPhone related predictions. Stocks, profits, revenue, market share—anything you can think of has already been predicted.

In this column, we’ll file all such predictions as they come in, and you’ll be able to find them by date or by analyst, and also see for yourself how the predictions actually panned out.

One of the foremost “predictors” is Gene Munster, analyst at Piper Jaffray. Let’s begin with his latest–a quick summary of all his earlier predictions is available after the jump.

Gene Munster predicted yesterday that Apple would sell 425000 units over the weekend. And as we know, the actual sales reached the one million mark. Apple’s announcement came within hours of Munster’s estimate, so the most bullish of all analysts out there had to send out a clarification explaining that he overestimated the impact of activation glitches Apple experienced initially.

And here are some earlier predictions by Munster (do read till the end—it’s fascinating!)

 June 7th, 2007

Prediction:

• 45 million units will be sold by the end of 2009.
• 3.2 million in 2007
• 12.4 million in 2008.

July 2^nd 2007

Prediction: iPhone sales will be in the 200,000 range the first weekend.

Actual sales: Approximately 500,000 iPhones.

March 31, 2008

Prediction: “A diversification of the iPhone line into a multi-tiered family of handsets that will combine for sales of 45 million units in 2009.”

June 11th 2008

Prediction: Apple will sell 55 million iPhones, and the App Store will earn Apple $1.2 billion annual revenue by the end of 2009.

June 16^th 2008

Prediction:

• 78 million iPhone and iPod Touch users by the end of 2009
• App Store to be worth $ 1 billion annually by the end of  2009