Not to mention that the game barely got any advertisment.

I think it was just too late for Japan, sadly. X should do much better, and FE is showing that Nintendo are willing to push games of this nature.

Sounds good to me.

They could use the positive PR of new "core" IP, Xenoblade's already got a great rep, and it would play off well against the rest of their stable by offering something very different from the rest. (Much like Metroid already does)

Man, it's TORTURE that they've shown us such ridiculously amazing footage of X, yet we still know so little about it...

That would be pretty cool, if Nintendo actually makes enough copies this time.

I'm not comparing it to Zelda as an RPG. As you said, Zelda ain't much of an RPG any more. However, Zelda TP showed that a "mature" game can get quite a large audience on Nintendo systems. Of cource the game was backed up a lot by it's name, Zelda, but Zelda fans, and there are millions of them, show that there is a place for dedicated gamers that like more than Wii Play. And to me, it shows me that Nintendo still have the potential to start up big time franchises (sales wise).

With such a big budget (I'm going to assume the game has that :D) they will probably try to print as many copies as they can sell. And there's a 99% chance for it to come to the e-shop too.

choice of picking TP (over 8mil) or SS (3.5mil). Yeahhhhhh? SS was a good game, to many people b****ed about motion controls, thats it. Why do people always pick the lowest selling game to prove a point i wonder? Its like one guy claiming pokemon sales went wy down and they were comparing red/blue (33mil) vs bw2(6.5mil) and bw2 isn't even a new gen pair game O.o..... OT: X should be the FF for Nintendo!!!

I think they will. After the unexpected critical and commercial success of Xenoblade, they know they have something special. The series would be the spiritual successor to FF which was once a key part of a Nintendo system line up. With a proper release and promotion the X series could become big. I expect X to more than double Xenoblade's sales, and if they maintain quality levels the series could join FF and Elder Scrolls as a mainstream RPG sales success.

Research what? The wii never had the rpg market, neither will the wii u, xenoblade and the last story didn't even reach one million and the wii u will never have the same userbase as the wii. 

0.84 lifetime sales doesn't mean it is a big franchise, even if nintendo printed more copies max it would have sold 200k more copies.