Looking back at history, with the exception of Wii, every Nintendo home console has had a pretty significant decline from its predecessor. NES-62m, SNES-49m (about 20% decline), N64-33m (about 33% decline), GC-22m (about 33% decline). Currently Wii U is selling as if Wii never existed and is selling worse than GC. If has a similar decline from GC as previous consoles had than it would end up with around 15m, give or take a few million. So if Wii U sells 15m lifetime, how much will the big Nintendo franchises sell on it?
Over 5 million club-Mario Kart, Smash Bros, New Super Mario Bros
3-5 million club-Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong Country, Nintendo Land, Legend of Zelda, Wii Sports
Over 1 million club-Metroid, Kirby, Animal Crossing, Mario Party, Pikmin, Paper Mario, Wii Party, Wii Fit, Wind Waker HD, Luigi U, Yarn Yoshi
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