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RuRo on 04 January 2015
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GTA Something (not necessarily the next one) on PS4 would be the best option, but only if PS4 becomes really dominant (Xbox looks to have came back a bit at the end of this year and if they can remain strong in US that will make a difference, since a game will need the US to get near 30 million). Or if it somehow got GTA or COD exclusive, or perhaps some sort of Rockstar new IP GTA clone / spiritual successor as an exclusive. If Xbox One stays even kind of close to PS4 in the hardware race it will be hard though, since I expect even a big GTA or similar game would end up with ~40 million to split between them.

As for 10 million on the Wii U, I don't think it will happen but there's maybea slightly better chance than 30 million on PS4 or Xbox One. NSMBU is currently the top seller but I expect Mario Kart 8 to pass that next year and be the best selling Wii U game overall barring any huge surprises (on a tangent, my prediction is 1. Mario Kart 8, 2. NSMBU, 3. Super Smash Bros U, 4/5. Zelda U / Nintendoland (or else a surprise game not on our radar right now)). So the question is really will Mario Kart 8 sell 10 million. It looks like it could be close to 4 million by the end of this year, it would need incredible legs to sell another 6 million. Mario Kart Wii had those kind of legs (released at a similar time of year as Mario Kart 8, was ~13m at the end of 2008 but ended well above 30m) but that was a much bigger game so I don't know if the ratios will be comparable. Mario Kart 7 ended its first year with similar sales to Mario Kart 8 and reached 10m this year, but it was released in the holidays, and also on a much bigger install base. The obvious comparison might be the Gamecube but I don't know where to look to see how much Double Dash sold lifetime compared to its first year. But anyway, I imagine the Wii U's software sales will look similar to the Gamecube's in the end except with Mario Kart on top and Super Smash Bros below, and the Gamecube sold 21 million but Melee only 7 million, so it doesn't look too likely.