Nintendo needs the haters, it´s their fuel

Fair point, but http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5719840

The WiiU is still dead though.

Yawn...everyone knows pokemon will do well.

Nintendo on iOS would be a huge mistake, they should focus in being the child-safe videogame, with tons of collorfull simple plataformers like DK, SMB and others. A lot of parents are concerned to what kind o games their kids are playing; I say GIVE THEM A WIIU with pikmin, SMB, DK, Mario Kart 8 and Nintendo Land, that will keep the little psichos busy until they are old enough to play our beloved murder simulators...

To the OP, it will never "rise to the highest selling game console in history" because it's not a game console. It's a hand held. And no, it won't pass the DS. It'll finish right behind it though.

So you're saying that the 3DS is, like, what, a handgun? You know, a handgun isn't a game console, because it's hand held.

See what I did there?

The Wiiu will be discontinued on Oct 12th?

oh, you are only on the 3DS bandwagon lately.

....okay ill shoot, why isnt a handheld a game console

ok ok there's always going to be those guys but I think general consensus (spelling?) is that Vita and WiiU are DOOOOOOOMED!!! while 3DS and PS3 are winning their respective markets.  Now I must plug that I think WiiU has a much better chance than Vita at recovering just because of the more mass appeal of their IPs.  It's not a sure thing however as Mario, Mario Kart, and Smash Bros sold wonderfully on Gamecube and N64 yet those systems weren't the biggest movers.  Nintendo knows how to make money though.  Imagine how much more they make per game created than Sony.  Sony spends gonzo dollars to make 3 Uncharted games this gen each getting its own marketing and other expenses and each suffering the predictable drop once the successor arises.  Go to Nintendo and they have a game like Mario Kart or a game like Brawl where they basically say "If you have a Wii and want this series you buy this one."  They only devlope one game and yet it keeps selling through the whole gen.  The only game Sony really has that they can do that with is GT.

That's my 2 cents worth I'm just happy that by 2015 I'll be enjoying WiiU, PS4, and possibly even a 3DS in all their glory (PS4 at launch, WiiU BF 2014, and 3DS maybe next Summer if the price is right for the Pokemon themed Red one)