Pachter says the Wii U optimistically will sell around 40- 45 M units LTD.

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S.T.A.G.E. said:

pezus said:
I would say that's probably my low end (40m). This won't come near 100m though like Wii. So I'll say 40-80m, depending entirely on Nintendo games.

Did you factor in third party support? Nintendo was only the market leader because of casual appeal. Pachter said himself, the majority of the people who initially bought the Wii U judging by game sales were core Nintendo gamers. The rest own other consoles, which resulted in low support for games like Call of Duty.

I would agree that the majority of the sales were probably Nintendo fans, but not necessarily with the software sales.  The majority of the Wii U buyers more than likely got the deluxe version with Mario U along with another 3rd party game.  In my instance, I got batman AC along with the other two.  I"m assuming this was the case for other buyers as well or even no third party games at all considering Mario U is selling at almost the same pace as ninty land.  But, I do have friends who are nintendo fans waiting to buy the console.  One is waiting on dragonquest and the other is just waiting on justifying the purchase.  Perhaps Monster Hunter will put him over the edge.  Nintendo needs really good software right now and unfortunately ninty land didn't have near the affect as Wii Sports did.