I think a lot of you are forgetting something HUGE.
As of today, Its taken WiiU from almost 3 years to barely reach 9.5mil (lets say 9.7mil for the hell of it) in console sales. This number happened because of awesome games like Smash/Kart 8/DK: TF/Pikmin 3/Mario 3d world/NSMB WiiU/Mario party 10/Nintendo Land/Toads Treasure Tracker and exclusive 3rd party games like ZombiU/W101/Bayonetta 2/Hyrule Warriors. Some of these games have even received QUALITY/affordable DLC and millions of Amiibo to push the "on the fence" gamers to get a WiiU........
^ and yet the WiiU ONLY sold 9.7mil. Some of the biggest megatons the company has were dropped in the first 3 years and ONLY 9.7mil consoles have been sold. This is pretty damn bad.
Look, i love my WiiU. I bought the thing at launch, play it at least 5 times a week for multiple hours a night (i even run large scale smash bros events with it on some weekends) and it is the only console i own. I am in no doubt a nintendo hater/basher but dear lord there is no way the WiiU will hit 20mil by 2018 (NX will be out by Nov 2018).
Do you really think Splatoon, Zelda, XenoBlade 2, StarFox WiiU and Metroid WiiU/F-Zero WiiU (lets assume these are happening) will dish out another 10.3mil in console sales by 2018? Yes, im sure there will be other great WiiU games come out in between all these games that ive not listed but honestly the big hitter here is Zelda. Zelda will def sell consoles but not at the rate a casual+competitive friendly Kart/Smash (both of which have quality/low cost DLC) would in the long haul.
Again, i wanna agree that WiiU will hit 20mil by the time NX arrives but i honestly cant see it happening.
