Poll - Lifetime sales of WiiU will most likely be around....

[OdinHades]

MTZehvor said:
50-60 million seems reasonable.

20-30 million is low balling it by a lot. There are still plenty of Nintendo fans who will snap up the system once the 3D Mario, Zelda, or next SSB are released.

The big reason behind the Wii U's slow start is that it's competing against less expensive consoles with a much, much smaller variety of new games (as is the case for any console that launches first). Sales will perk up once the PS4 and 720 come out (assuming neither one has a major attractive feature like the Wii's motion control). By then, it'll be a cheaper console (if Nintendo has any sense) with a larger amount of games than the PS4 or 720.

If Nintendo can weather the storm for the next eight or so months, I think they'll be fine.

The problem is that 360 and PS3 will still be around for at least another 2 years. In that time, consumers can choose those cheap consoles with a broad variety of games or the more expensive ones with superior graphics and features. The Wii U will be somewhere in between and won't look cheap like the Wii did because 360 and PS3 will hit that 99 $ price tag sometime. The Wii U also doesn't give a reason to upgrade from 360 or PS3. And that's the main reason why I think the console will fail. That and the lack of third party games, because no one will even bother porting from x86 to PPC.