Max King of the Wild said:
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I think you should consider what kind of numbers the Wii U has to sell to do less than 5m next year. We don't even have the number Wii U sold total this year to begin with. We still have Dec (the biggest month for all consoles) left. So if we look at it that way, Dec has potential to add about 300k-1m to the year on pretty much any given year (on a worst case scenario). It may not be much, but it's something. There are 12 months in a year. To sell 5m at least, it needs to average at about 420k per month. Well, 2014's release schedule is definitely larger in terms of the kinds of 1st party Nintendo games we are expecting to release during that time frame. If we assume that each region gets MK8, DK, SSB4, and X, with at least a month between each of these releases, it should be logical to assume that the months with the first three should have over 500k for that month. That is 1.5m by itself. X may prove to sell significantly less, but the legs for the Wii U should be kicking off as the Wii U has been showing to have abnormally low numbers weekly so far.
Games are more important to sell systems than the system itself, and with the release of MK8 and SSB, the appeal of the system should (not absolutely) bring up the sales of the Wii U to about 80-100k per week. If this happens, we can safely assume that Dec 2014 should have over 1m sales for Wii U. While it may seem like conjecture, a good bit of these games are better known to be system sellers than the games we have had this year. Also, 5m in a year is still bad.
