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Pillow on 23 November 2013
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Those 3 games will most likely make the top 10 even if Wii U sells +- 30M units, which will be reached (most likely).

Let's go back in time:

The N64 which sold roughly 33M units had some very high selling exclusives:

-Mario Kart 64: 10M sold which accounts for 30% of the userbase.
-Super Mario 64: 12M --> 36%
-Smash Bros 64: 5.5M -->16,6%

The Gamecube, with 22M units sold which is worse then the N64 managed well in software sells:

-Mario Kart DD: 7M --> 31.8%
-Super Mario Sunshine: 6.3M--> 28.6%
-Super Smash Melee: 7M --> 31.8%

I won't bother with the Wii since it wasn't on the same level in terms of users targeted and hardware sells.

If history repeats itself, and considering Wii U sold 30M hardware:

-Super Smash 4 (which is way more popular than before), should sell 33%+ of userbase: so 10-11M but could maybe reach 20M total with 3DS.

-Mario Kart 8 (thanks to the Wii, it might bring a lot of Wii owners back), could see it go at 30% or 10M

-3D World (seems to target the female audience) could do 28% or 8.5M+

People will buy the Wii U for those games (and others), and those people will mostly be gamers, and not Wii owners, which is why I link the N64 and GCN % sales. Also, you can't really compare console with handhelds, they are 2 different demographics.

So will they be in the top 10? I think it is very likely, probably not top 3, but who knows.
COD and AC are selling less than before, losing their appeal.
GTA6 will probably be the best selling game, if R* advertises it as much as they did with GTA5.

Otherwise I can't see many games selling as much as Nintendo's IPs (except Uncharted and Halo). They always sell well, despite low HW sales.
Hell, even Zelda U may have a shot at top 10 if it wows people.

But it's too soon to tell, we can only wait and see.