Why is so hard for Wii U sell 20,000,000?

[Dunban67]

zorg1000 said:

Dunban67 said:
IMO the Wii U is looking at 14 million sales for its effective lifetime (point in which its replacement is launched)

Nintendo is getting out of the Wii U what it has put into it- They never seemed to have confidence in it and it has been evident to the market sales) and industry (3rd party, general media/ pr etc)

They will have to put significant effort and investment into their next consoles early in their lifespans or they will end up w more Wii U situations)

In many ways it seems like this was a transitional generation, this is their first handheld that uses 3D visuals to a large extent, DS was capable of it as seen by Mario 64 DS but for the most part they stuck to simple 2D visuals. It's also the first console to utilize HD visuals so with both of these factors, development times/costs have likely increased substantially compared to DS/Wii. With Iwata talking so much about unifying their devices to increase software output and make it easier to port games to/from each device, hopefully they can fix the situation and come back strong next-generation.

Transitional is a good word for it-  It has been like they either were not sure or not ready to comit to the directon they wanted

Whatever they do next will be critical for the company-  After the insanley profitable wii and Ds the could afford to tread water for a little while but in a competivie business like gaming/entertainmetn/software they can t afford to do so for long