HappySqurriel on 02 January 2013
| Soundwave said: I could see a new console announced in 2-3 years, especially if Wii U flops in 2013 and beyond, but it probably won't even be a console, it'll be Nintendo washing their hands of the console market entirely and making like a tablet which has the option of wirelessly transmitting a signal to the TV (so the reverse of the Wii U in effect). Then again, the successor to the SNES (N64) was announced in August 1993 (Project: Reality) when the SNES was barely 2 years old in the US. And the GameCube (Project: Dolphin) was announced at the 1999 E3 show, when the N64 was just 2 1/2 years old. |
I don't think I have seen any system to launch as cleanly as the Wii U (in Japan and North America at least) and then to suddenly see the kind of drastic decline that would be necessary to have it "flop" in 2013 ...
I think a safe estimate for Wii U sales in 2013 is 8-12 Million systems sold, which at the low end is what the PS3 and XBox 360 did in their first year; and I think there is an outside chance of the Wii U passing 12 million units sold, especially if Sony and/or Microsoft screw up with their systems.
