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

[kristianity77]

The problem with the WiiU (at least over here in the UK) is that it never really stood a chance in the first place. WiiU's demoed in store for the first year (and even now where you can find one) showed literally two games. A 2D Rayman, and a 2D New Super Mario Bros. That was your lot. Anyone casting an eye over that saw nothing that the current consoles couldn't do (in terms of eye candy) and nothing that the Wii wasn't already doing (albeit it with sharper visuals). And when you saw the price tag being asked for this, it was never going to sell.

It didn't help either that all it got really in the first 12 months was mostly last gen ports where Nintendo was asking an RRP of nearly 50% more than they were on other consoles. It was doomed to fail before it even got out of the starting trap.

I agree also that it will do well to get to 20 million. You would imagine it will make 10 million early in 2015 but then what? Anyone who wanted one for Nintendo titles you would think has already bought one for Mario Kart, Wind Waker HD, SSB etc. A new Zelda in 2015 isn't going to push sales up that much either as I can't imagine anyone who wants one hasn't already done so.

Its sad really, as Nintendo really do make the best games. But people these days aren't willing to lay down the money for a console to play literally a handful of titles over a period of years and not have anything else to play on it. There is way way better value elsewhere, either in the PS3 and Xbox which has an infinitely better software catalogue and the majority of games can be had now for next to nothing as well. And if you want something more up to date, people are just going with the XB1 and PS4 because it offers performance and variety which the WiiU just cannot match due to lack of 3rd party support.

Nintendo have to sort all of this out for the next console or else I fear it will fare even worse. Nintendo released the Wii U too early for me. They should have held it back 12 months, which would of lowered the cost of higher end hardware and at the very least might have allowed them to compete with the newer consoles and allowed for more ports of next gen games, rather than ports of the last gen ones.