Wii Sports U says hi. So does Pokemon. Animal Crossing Wild World outsold Brawl, too. Metroid would be able to bring in quite a bit of hype if done right. So would a Mario vs Sonic adventure game, or a Final Fantasy/Zelda crossover (let me be clear - not predicting that this will happen), or one of a number of other possibilities. Realistically, it's possible for a single announcement to be easily competitive with Mario 3D and Mario Kart, in either sales or hype.

More generally, it's possible for an accumulation of announcements that go beyond those.

I dunno, I strongly suspect that Wii Sports' day has come and gone. I'd expect a Wii U version to do about as well as Nintendogs+cats did relative to the original Nintendogs. Animal Crossing is much bigger on handhelds than on console. Metroid is nowhere near that level, and never will be. A Mario vs. Sonic non-minigame game is getting close to la-la land again, though maybe not quite there, but Final Fantasy x Zelda is firmly in it and would never sell that much anyway because crossovers generally don't match the sales of either of the franchises envolved.

Anyway, I guess we have different definitions of "realistic". Last year's bombshell was Pikmin, a game that was also pre-announced well in advance. To the extent that I'm personally expecting anything, I'm expecting Retro's game. But if Nintendo just said, "Here's the name of the new Mario Kart, here's the logo, here's some gameplay, see you next year," I would hardly be shocked.

But then who is sapphi_snake?

Hopefully not among the living.

They aren't continuing the revolution. And as long as they don't, they are doomed. They can turn it around though.

looks at weekly sales, yup still doomed.

Yeah, but PS3 was doomed when it launched as well (although, doing a bit better than Wii U is doing right now), but they turned it around. At did anyone reallt forsee the success 360 has had?! Many things can, and will, change within a year or two.

yea but ps3 was 599$, i knew it would bounce back, i can't see the samething happining with the wiiu, i also think the ps brand is much stronger and has loyal fanbase.

Yes theres lots of time to turn it around, just like the PS3 did, so for me its way to early to call doom.

Though I do think the Wii-u is up against it this year, they should have released at least a year earlier. I mean most of the press so far this year has been about PS4/Xbox720 specs, tech etc. E3 will be very intersesting... its been very poor in the last few years, but i would think Sony/MS will want to pull out the stops for this one. Of course Sony/MS could still do a heres Wonderbook or I can talk to my friends in video chat on Xbox levels of boredom again (hoping not).

As for Nintendo and E3, lets be honest everyone was expecting them to kick ass last year, what with both Sony and MS winding down due to being full on getting the next get in dev.. Nintendo didnt need to do alot and they should have been giving lots of info considering a new console...., in the end Nintendo was the worst, especially when they ended with the dreadful fireworks show.

All in all it leads to an interesting year for gaming, which is good because the last couple have felt we are at the end of the gen, what with some great games from Sony/3rd parties, GTA, posibility of new consoles. Hopefully it wont disappoint.

And Nintendo DON'T have loyal fan base? They do, or else they wouldn't have made it through the GC era. And how big a fan base PS has remains to be seen. This last gen we saw a hellalot of ppl skipping PS in favor of 360. And the question about fan base really boils down to one point, and one point alone; exclusives. Because, why else buy one certain console? People bought PS1 because of all the awesome 3rd party exclusive, as was the case with PS2. But enter xbox360 and multiplats, and we see how ill equipped Sony is for a challande like that. No more 3rd party exclusives? Then the sales start to drop. Based on how much each console makers 1st party games sell I'd dare venture and say that Nintendo has the strongest following. Sony and MS is making money from the millions of gamers that don't care what system they play on, as long as they get the majority of kick ass games, and that's why 360 cut in really, really deep into the sales of PS3; because the majority of gamers don't care what system they get. They care about the games.

And I'm sure 3D Mario, Mario Kart, SSB4 and Zelda will sell a couple of Wii U's.