WiiU will hit 15M, i dare say, it will cross the 20M, the thing is... it's a poor mark, WiiU is posed to make 15M and 20M, but most likely will not cross 25M.

Are you hinting that you consider to buy  a quite cheaper wii u?:P

It should go to 199$,the manufacturing cost is 180$!It isn't impossible,gamecube got two consecutive price cuts in its first two years,of 50$ and 50$ dollars respectively,199->99$!

Okay nintendo wants profits from wii u and currently gets them but I can't accept that it doesn't care for the baseline growth!2015 is the time for a great price cut of 50$ and why not another one 2016,-50$ again?:P

We don't have to wait. We didn't have to wait for MK8. We didn't have to wait for SM3DW. Why would Smash be any different?

I don't see the Wii U hitting $150 until after the successor is released. The Wii reach $99 because it launched at only $250, and that was after many many years. You seriously think the Wii U will have dropped a full $200 in 3-4 years? Come on. The 360 has been out nearly a decade and isn't at $150 yet.

And, for the record, the Gamepad costed $80 to manufacture at launch. So no, it's not just $50 extra that can't be reduced.

Dude, where and when will it get a sale spike to reach 20 and beyond? Are you saying Nintendo will support the console for 4 more years?

@chakra: That definitely hurts Nintendo more than fans realize. I'd bet that Nintendo is actually aware of this. But either paying tons of money not knowing if people will buy them (they haven't so far) or not having them is kind of a double trap for Nintendo.

That might have been different with much better Marketing and a less dumb name. Wii 2 would have been self explanatory and there's zillions of other better names.

As of now it's probably to late to get those gamers back, that aren't dedicated Nintendo fans.

I was always under the impression that the WiiU is the first system that Nintendo has not sold at a profit.

They can if they run on the same architecture. It wouldn't be a dual launch. They'll practically be the same system.

I read that the Wii U was the first console they ever had that was sold at a loss.

No it didn't.  It outsold it last year in Dec, and has only won Nov NPD this year (and will probably win Dec by a couple 100Ks).  And only a few of the "normal" months were even that close, with the PS4 usually outselling it ~100K+.  If MS does put the XBO price back to $399, it's very easy to predict how things will go.  Nov and Dec proved that the XBO needs to be at least $50 cheaper PLUS come with a few free games for it to even take the US.  IDK, I just don't think MS, more importantly the higher ups and investors, are going to agree to throw money at the Xbox dvision for the next few years just to win the US by a few M's.  Not when it comes at the loss of profit, when the PS4 is selling at profit and still doing great.

Edit: Though, I do agree with you that the Wii U and XBO aren't exactly in the same situation.  The XBO should probably double the Wii U's sales numbers.  So, around 40M-45M.

Lol, I've stated several times that I will definitely be getting a Wii U.  Maybe at $249, a definite at $199.  It has a few games I would love to play.  Mainly the Nintendo releases and Lego City Undercover (hope they still port this or release a sequel on PS4, though.)

Agreed, people thinking it can pass 25m are being very optimistic, 20m is a reasonable prediction for Wii U.