Prediction: Wii U will sell under 40 million units

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Rustynail said:

snowdog said:
I couldn't disagree more. I'm personally expecting it to shift 10-15m units before the PS4 and 720 are released, and due to Nintendo's (surprising!) forward thinking regarding the console's architecture combined with the U having a standard rendering pipeline this time around it won't have any problems getting multiplatform titles after the PS4 and 720 are released.

It's launching (whether launch or launch window titles) with several system sellers aimed at a variety of different demographics - NSMB U, Pikmin 3, Lego City Undercover, ZombiU, Rayman Legends, Aliens Colonial Marines, Dragon Quest X and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. We may have to wait a little longer for Dragon Quest X, I haven't kept up with the details of that one but the others are either launch or launch window titles.

Lol, when looking back at this, 10-15 million? And 720? Where did you get that from? I didn't know Microsoft would ever call their console Xbox 720, that sounds plain stupid.

To be fair, this was before MS actually named it.  And honestly, 720 sounds better than Xbox One.  Of course, I doubt they would have called it that, as it would have just pointed people's attention to the fact a lor of their games are 720P, while the PS4's are mainly 1080P.

@ OT

Damn, even I wasn't pessimistic enough.  I said 60M.  There's still a chance that Nintendo gets their act together and really pushes the Wii U, but I think the damage is already done.