It didn't give Wii U total domination, and for a major Mario title it's quite unusual and disappointing not being WW absolute top seller in its launch week, but nethertheless MK8 had an excellent effect on Wii U sales, it should definitely help keeping their baseline, after the boost fades, above 50k, so timing succcessive launches wisely and considering the usual huge Xmas boost, Ninty could achieve keeping Wii U yearly sales above 6.5M worst case, but even above 8M if things go as planned, and for a few years. Managing to do it for 4 years could grant Wii U to sell at least 40M lifetime, but in the best case, and adding a few more years after the top ones (and the final age would be longer in the best case), over 50M lifetime would be feasible.
Naturally nothing prevents Ninty from boosting sales even further, but this first prediction is the best it could do in the current state and if this boost doesn't die off too quickly, to make higher predictions we'll need Ninty to achieve progressive boosts of the baseline first.
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