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In 3 years? Getting pulled off store shelves to get ready for the Wii U 2 launch.
That is if it continues the trend which it established since it's release. 29 million lifetime is definitely doable.

What do you mean Nintendo can't make games like that? Sony's PS3 struggled last gen with terible losses, and by using their 1st party companies, they turned it around and barely survived. Nintendo can easily fund a project to make large-scale games with mass appeal and bring in sales. 

Maybe my 60m sales are, in fact, way off. But to say that there is NO chance of it is like the issue with the PS3 and 3ds. Everyone downgraded them as failures that would fair in the market. The PS3 was recieving garbage ports from the 360, so what made them wrong? The 3ds was in competition with the graphically more powerful PS Vita, so what made them wrong?

Well they already had 1st quarter and they only shipped 0.16mil units. That means they need to ship 6.84mil more to reach 7mil... or 181,000 weekly... let's face it Nintendo did't ship 2.4mil this quarter. Probably around the same as last quarters number... but I'll be generous and say it shipped the same as Q4 last FY year (0.39mil). That leaves 6.45mil for 6 months... or 263,000 weekly...Well, this is the quarter that Nintendo needs to make up ground for that. Do you see them shipping that number anytime soon? You think stores are going to accept that kind of stock when they can't even move that volume in 3 months? Do you even think they will have a week before BF that even tops that figure? I very sincerely doubt it. That's another 2 months away. Even if they sell half that in the next 8 weeks (which is very very generous) leading up to BF that would be 300,000 weekly from BF on out...  I don't think they'll do that in Q4 which would make damn near 800k a week from BF - Dec 31st.

7mil is very difficult for Nintendo but not impossible.

I think the Wii U is a fair amount behind isn't it? It was 700k behind in NA in June, and Europe is doing worse. But that doesn't really matter, like you said to beat the GC they need to have increased the popularity of the franchises with the Wii. We can't know for sure either way, as only NSMB came and it didn't bring people with it.

The GC did suffer because of the PS2, but the PS4 and X1 might do the same. The combined base of Sony and MS is larger than at the end of the 6th gen, so may have more momentum, retail space etc affecting the Wii U as much as the PS2 affected the GC. One or both may flop however, so it's hard to tell.

You have good points though, N64 levels is a reasonable guess.

I see it on my living room as it is today. I think we could see a turn around in the future. This generation is gonna be really interesting and surprising.

Too early to tell, I want to see what the sales are like after the release of at least one AAA flagship title.

I am talking something like Mario Kart, Zelda U, and Mario Galaxy U. Hopefully the Xenogears game takes a role as one of Nintendo's flagship franchises. I would love to see Final Fantasy knocked off of its hype horse and replaced with a much more deserving title.

I'll see all the Wii U doomed threads gone in 3 years.

Honestly it will sell at most 5 million in its first year. Anyone who thinks it will sell 39 mil in 3 years is delusional...

He means they don't make games like that.   You are forgetting that PS3 got equal 3rd party support, and Wii U is close to recieving none...