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

[DanneSandin]

archbrix said:
People need to be realistic here. Pointing to sales in Europe right now or the fact that WiiU was outsold by the competition this holiday as a solid indication of how well WiiU will be selling in the future is a flawed metric for many reasons. Have people forgotten how the PS360 were outsold by the PS2 for the first couple of years, how the GBA outsold the DS initially, or how the 3DS was barely managing 60k a week globally there for a while?

Just wait until next holiday when the cheaper WiiU and some big games go up against the new consoles. And how about its third and fourth holidays as low as $199 with a solid library and a new Mario Kart or Smash Bros? That's likely when we'll see it looking like 360 and PS3 did this last holiday.

Pachter's prediction is set low, but the people thinking WiiU is only going to manage 30 or 35m globally in its entire life are kidding themselves.

The PSP outsold the DS initially as well, and now the DS has doubled it's lead over PSP...

But I'd say that as long as Wii U only gets 1st party games the sales won't pick up too much... It doesn't have a Wii Sports, and Wii Fit U will not sell as well as the original - so a lot of the biggest selling IP's from the last gen is gone, and what Nintendo's left with is their old and trusted IP's - and as evident by the GC and N64, they can't push a console over 40m...