Amazing, that is indeed pure gold.

This thread gave me a good laugh, you nailed it Man Bear Pig.

Where's the gold? people just couldn't predict third parties would BS all over the place.

exactly, and that to me is pure gold there.

if this post wasnt edited recently (though i expect it was), then turkish was the only person close to being right.

and currently it looks likely that it will sell around 15 million.

No offense, but it really sounds like revisionist history on your part.  There were alot of people that had negative doom and gloom regarding the Wii U's design and planning.  I for one bashed the Wii U incessantly (on other boards because of the mods here) because of the lack of a "real harddrive".....lack of a good networking system.....the fact that the Wii U was underpowered and lack of full 1080p  capability.....and lack of BluRay or even DVD capability.

It was very obvious that the Wi would be and/or perform subpar to people who were truly subjective.

Here's some of my posts:

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/as-far-as-im-concerned-without-a-true-harddrive-wii-u-is-doomed.452552994/

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/iwata-xbox-live-and-psn-are-too-far-developed-for-nintendo-to-catch-up.452530853/

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/if-the-wii-u-fails-will-nintendo-exit-the-home-console-business.452761045/

There were a few that predicted troubles from the get go and I acknowledged that, but they were definitely the minority here. You can ask anyone who was active here before the Wii U launched. Overall people were optimistic and this thread right here is enough proof of that.

Besides, my point is that a lot of Nintendo fans on this site act like the whole philosophy of the Wii U was the wrong choice and how Nintendo were stupid for not seeing that and you see some of them in old threads saying that it's gonna be a success.

Edit: And to be honest I was one of the optimistic people. I definitely knew that it was gonna be a big decline from the Wii, but I was expecting it to do at least 50 million. The difference is I don't pretend that I knew it was gonna fail even before it launched.

melbye has been the closest to Wii U LTD so far, nobody see that coming except him.

Edit: somehow i didn't see by the end of 2013, he was as much wrong as lot of people.

Maybe he meant 2023 :P

At least for those who posted on this thread back in 2012, who are currently looking like PS2 fans who looked at the PS3 as the second coming, price be damned back in 2006, it looks like the new standard for declaring Wii U a success will be proving the OP prediction wrong by breaking 40m units. 

Both the Wii U and the PSV will be prematurely abandoned, making your own prediction more likely than not. 

I can potentially see SCE keeping the PSV in production simply because it supports the PS4 and production costs will probably be low enough to keep Sony from losing money on each unit sold, but as a gaming platform, it's become a mobile game platform like iOS or Android (only the games are more expensive) rather than a handheld platform (like the 3DS) and Japan is about the only region still supporting the development of handheld titles. 

While there were people who predicted that the Wii U would not perform well, almost nobody predicted the actual level of failure.  Take the 2013 prediction thread for example.  The average prediction was triple what actual sales were.  Out of 76 people not a single one expected sales as low as they ended up being.  The lowest prediction was still 25% higher than actual sales.  The second lowest 45% higher, and the third lowest was 90% higher.  The images in the 2014 prediction thread are dead, but I seem to recall only three people undershot sales out of the dozens of predictions.

In general, Wii U sales have been even worse than the most pessimistic expectations.  Especially for that first year, and definitely compared to those prior to release.