OK, I faced it: WiiU can't sell over 15M

[Lucas-Rio]

spemanig said:

Lucas-Rio said:

Nintendo did not make money on hardware at launch before the Wii, especially not with the GC (price was slashed before launch).

Nintendo won't release a new console mid gen, 2 or 3 years before the Sony or Microsoft, that's extremely unlikely. Even if they are not direct competitors, it would be very confusing for their product. The new handheld is more likely to release in 2016.

What? Where did you get that from? The GCN was profitable its entire run, from what I've read.

Both will in 2016. The only way it will be "confusing" is if they fuck up the names like they did with the Wii U. Since they will be most likely branded together, as opposed to being branded with their predesessors, they'd need to try mighty hard to fuck it up. 

Nintendo can't stomach a dual launch the same year.

The Game cube was not sold at profit , but Nintendo was making money on games. Nintendo explained the price of the Wii (gamecube rebooted) by saying that contrary to what they were doing normally, they wanted to profit on hardware too.