2006 was a different time and I'm sure ps3's sales drought was at least a little better than wii u's. again, the only thing that matters is how wii u will sell after the games start releasing (august and onwards).

I think you missed his point, this is all well and good...for the 3ds that doesnt mean jack for the WIi U. where is the stellar support from Capcom for that. All we've seen is, ports of year old games. RE and MH. Thats far from stellar support, and we havent even heard of anything else. Hell its no different from Wii really. We got a rerelease budget RE4(whoopie) a few light gun games, and more ports. MH and Tvs.C was the only real standouts, what Capcom released on the other consoles and hell even the portables was head and shoulders over that.

are you serious? a nintendo machine with many releases, especially a new 3d mario will sell far more than that. November and december combined should be in the range of 4-5M.

That logic makes no sense to me, but okay.

No, I didn't miss his point. He used the example of Sonic Lost Worlds to make it very clear he's saying that Nintendo's 3rd party support on the U and 3DS so far is due to moneyhatting and I disagree. You should re-read his point. The U support is not there yet because Nintendo has not given the confidence needed and it makes perfect sense for all companies not EA because they are fuckers.

you obviously did miss his point, i didnt say anythng about moneyhatting or even Sega. Im talking about Capcom. The point was just because they are hooking 3ds up that doesnt mean they are doing it for WIi U. And from what we have seen, they are not. Your last sentence is spot on. But then how do you restore confindence?

I love how you completely dismiss his argument as hater talk, when he simply raises some good points. You can call it an excuse, but it is also a fact. Gamecube didn't sell that well with similar games that wiiu is getting. Whether this point is brought up by people who don't like Ninty or WiiU is irrelevant as their point still stands. You also seem to ignore the impact that motion controllers had as a novelty and the hype that helped wii take off. As mentioned by others, you simply can't compare handhelds with consoles, as the vast majority of ninty handhelds have sold very well, while quite a few ninty consoles have had disappointing sales. A game that sells well on a handheld does not necessarily sell as well on a home console. There are too many examples to ignore, but most importantly Pokemon. It was the reason many kids bought a gameboy as their first handheld and its success seems to be helping Ninty handhelds to this day, while Pokemon games on consoles sell mostly siginifcantly less, hence the great number of pokemon games on handhelds and the very limited on ninty consoles.

You do have a point that just because gamecube didn't get that much of a boost despite similar games, it doesn't mean that wiiu will have the same fate, BUT all things point to that, i.e. sales around 40m LT which is a far cry from wii, but still better than gamecube. 

You missed HIS point. Go read it again and then we'll talk.

you obviously did miss his point, i didnt say anythng about moneyhatting or even Sega. Im talking about Capcom. The point was just because they are hooking 3ds up that doesnt mean they are doing it for WIi U. And from what we have seen, they are not. Your last sentence is spot on. But then how do you restore confindence?

I already made a detailed prediction on another topic but to simplify: I expect wii u to end 2013 with a about of 10.2M total sales with a margin of error of 1M up or down. when november starts I think wii u will be a little more than 5M or pretty close to that.