WIIU owners: where do you see it in 3 years?

[DucksUnlimited]

Max King of the Wild said:

DucksUnlimited said:

Osc89 said:
Pretty much like the Gamecube. Except this time the multiplats will be a fair amount worse rather than slightly better so might actually do a bit worse.

Unless the Wii U becomes grouped with the 7th gen, in which case it will be just like the Gamecube with slightly better multiplats. It might also be about to be replaced in 3 years.

In all cases, it will get the usual great 1st party games so I'm not bothered.

Are you saying you only expect around 20 million units sold?

Well, honestly, it does have that chance. Nintendo wanted 5.5mil last FY and missed by 2.05million consoles. Their next forcast is 9 million. Let's face it, Nintendo will not ship 8.9million in 9 months. They will probably miss that by quite a bit too. I'm thinking 7mil this FY IF they have a huge holiday season. (HUGE! as in unprecedented sales for a console in it's position). That means in 2 FY it would only have about 10mil in sales. (I'm pegging for less than that. Wii U will have a 4 million gap when Ps4 launches and it won't increase and Sony will meet their projections of 5million).  Even if it shows growt YoY again it would still be well short of GC numbers and it would need something to spur growth again... I don't know if it will see another increase in it's 4th year. And how much longer do you think it will be untill Nintendo introduces another console?

I was thinking it would sell 40mil total at the begining of this year... now I'm not sure it can sell 35mil total

I don't think hitting 7m this FY is such a crazy idea. They're releasing tons of big hitters and have a very affordable console. I guess we'll just have to see what the software does for it this holiday.