How well do you think the WiiU will sell?

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Mandalore76 said:

S.Peelman said:
At the end of the 8th Gen I think it'll be around 82 million, so in the 80-89 range.

I don't see it catching Wii numbers, as a lot of the casual crowd and the 'impulse buys' will be lost to Nintendo. I don't see it fail either, because Nintendo fans alone secure like 40-50 million sales, and I think it'll be able to sway some of the PS360 crowd too.

As a Nintendo fan myself, of course I hope it'll be stellar and sells like 200 million, but realistically that's never going to happen :P.

Nintendo fans alone did not secure 40-50 million sales for Gamecube.  This isn't a knock on Gamecube by the way.  I owned one and enjoyed playing games on it.  I just had to point out the wrongness in that statement.  Personally, I chose 60-69 million as what I thought was a conservative estimate for Wii U.  Yes, they will lose the "casual"/motion-craze gamer, but I still have high hopes for the system and it's new controller screen innovation, and intend to own one as well.

GameCube was mostly because Nintendo wasn't doing what Nintendo fans wanted, luckily GBA was. GameCube was trying to be a Playstation 2 for a young crowd; and didn't feature any innovations like every single one of their other home consoles had (NES = dpad; SNES = diamond face buttons and shoulder buttons; N64 = 3D and analog; Wii = motion controls). Nintendo essentially made GameCube a console that many of us felt was not even viable as a purchase.