Prediction: WiiU to hit 10m sold after E3 2015

[AnthonyW86]

benji232 said:

SocialistSlayer said:
its worth pointing out that many nintendo fans, didnt even believe nintendos forcast and claimed the wiiu would easily clear 10 million this year, even 12 million.

well it looks like nintendo didnt low ball its estimates, and actually again overestimated (as they do every year it seems).
it appears the wiiu wont even sell 9 million by the end of the year, let alone 10.

and it looks like it doesnt have a chance to even come close to matching the gamecubes sales. ive been saying all along it would beat it, but its going to sell significantly less than what i even thought, less than 15 million is a real likely possiblility.
it wont come close to the pipe dream that many nintendo fans still hold on to of 30-50million (which was a laughable estimate 12 months ago, and just crazy now that many still hold on to that estimate)

Actually, they are right on track to hit their target (if not beat it by a small margin). Last year, they shipped 1.99m consoles in Q3. This year, we can expect a 10-20% increase in shipments yoy. So that would put Q3 shipments at 2.3-2.4m. They already shipped 1.1m lol... You really believe that Nintendo won't be able to ship 100-250k consoles in Q4? 

I do agree with you that wiiU LT sales are going to end up under 15m though (it's in my sig).

 

Actually in the past two years there were hardly any Wii-U's shipped in Q3. The remaining holiday stock simply was enough for the fourth quarter. And i fully expect Wii-U sales to drop hard after the holidays as they did the previous years. There is also the possibility that Q3 this year will end up lower than last year.

I still expect the Wii-U to meet Nintendo's forecast, but it won't easily beated as most had expected when the forecast was made.