Sales wise they should be aiming to follow up with gains like the Wii. No less than 5 times as much as Wii U in the first 4 years. In order to do that, it can't:
A. Do something stupid like the N64 and cartridges.
B. Aim at the children's market like GameCube.
C. Release very few great games, like both the GameCube and Wii U.
It has to do something new and exciting and have the games to back it, like the Wii, DS, SNES, and NES did.
Keep in mind, SNES sales only dropped because Nintendo had legal issues and didn't release many many games in Europe. It resulted in SNES not even really getting much of a start in popularity until Donkey Kong Country came out. We still had to import a lot of games if we wanted the best ones. Had Nintendo reached its potential in the SNES era, it would have almost certainly exceeded NES.
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