Sure, if it also becomes as AWESOME!

Doubt it, though :)

As long as it still outsells the PS4/720, which looks probable, sure.

I think people should be happy if it outsells the Gamecube.

How on earth does that look probable? How few consoles total do you actually expect to be sold in the 8th gen? 100 million? Even less?

OT: Personally, I don't care how much or little any of the consoles sell but I don't think that Nintendo themselves would or should be happy with sales like that, especially since they're not profitable on the hardware from launch, a smaller installed base also means severely diminshed income from software and licensing and royalties. If the Wii U ends up selling only 30-35% of the Wii, that would be a really long fall, even bigger than the PS3 - PS2, where it will likely end up around 60% or so.

I do not really care about absolute sales, as long as Nintendo continues to innovate. I am not a Nintendo investor after all. All in all 3DS sales may be good enough to outweigh poor WiiU performance, so Nintendo continues to live on and on.

In all fairness, Nintendo (and any other company for that matter) must listen. Do they read forums like this? Gamers are crying out for stuff like achievements (dont know what the hell this is), so freakin' give it to them...

I would not mind those kind of numbers. I am more interested in what the 3DS can achieve to be honest.

Possibly. Honestly, you don't see three successive platform launches with disastrous sales (and only one of them escaping this to achieve a tolerable level) unless there's something really, really wrong with the industry.

Maybe it's smartphones, maybe it's the economy finally catching up with the industry or maybe it's something else. Either way, there is clearly external pressure that is forcing the industry to contract. To put it another way, if PSV and Wii U failed, I can't see why PS4 or 720 will manage to outdo them.

The PS4, in particular, seems completely identical to PSV in almost every way. High specs, high-ish price, "developers love it" and all the rest. If the PSV didn't manage to beat 3DS with all that, PS4 won't manage to beat Wii U. And since we know nothing about 720 yet, I'm comfortable in predicting that Wii U will sell the most.

Might as well sell 10 million if the games are half as good as the N64 library.

Would investors be happy with N64 numbers though? Hell no.

I don't know, but I expect it to sell more than the N64 anyway. 50 million of so, or half of the Wii's figures.

I expect this halving of this gen figures for all systems next gen, as well.

You're logic doesn't make any sense. The PSV and 3DS are handhelds, different market and shouldn't be compared. Besides the handheld market is shifting towards smartphones and tablets in the west.

The Wii-U is selling like the Wii would have sold without all the casuals buying it because of the motion controls, and only fans of Nintendo's franchises are jumping in at this point. Everyone else is waiting for the PS4 and the Next Xbox.

The PS4 will likely sell better than the PS3 did because it will launch at a lower price.