Even so, your prediction is ridiculous. How can you expect the Wii U to sell more than any other console when it has had such a bad year without any competition? It's not the Wii, you do know that right?

 Based on current figures, it's more likely to be PS4>PS3>360>One>WiiU.

Also PS3 has already sold more than the X360 according to vgchartz so your prediction is already incorrect.

2002 is not launch. 2001 would have been launch numbers.
You were proven wrong by documented facts.
Gamecube's best year outside of launch was 2002. The console went down each year after that in the face of the mighty PS2.
How in the world can the Gamecube outsell later the Wii U when even in its second season Wii U outsells it?
Wii U outsold Gamecube in its launch period too. There's no way Gamecube got better in Japan in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.

He showed you Week 51 on both consoles.
Yes that means that it shows a September period for the Gamecube & a November period for the Wii U.
52 weeks in a year so it's the week before the full year.
It doesn't take much imagination to see Gamecube's holiday trajectory & Wii U's holiday trajectory based on those numbers.
benji232 disproved your statement. Deal with it.

Since you wanna say Gamecube was up against the PS2 well I counter you in saying that in the early 2000s ALL home consoles sold better in Japan than in 2013.
Nothing will EVER be quite exact. There are many variables in the equation.
There's always a different market reality with every generation influencing the sales power.

Now as for all this conspiracy theory nonsense you're coming up with—my supposed "agenda" & all this.
What was said in those PRIVATE messages was the same thing I said on the forum just uncensored.
It's the same thing I would say live on the forum if not for the sake of civility.
Those messages were not supposed to be posted on the forum but there's nothing incriminating about anything in it.
Trying to make a caricature out of me trying to paint me as some Jim Jones cult leader is frankly silly.
You don't like how I dismantled your arguments in extreme detail in that massive rebuttal.
You don't like how I challenge the negative narrative & refuse to buckle.

Retreat to the foxholes??? It's the holiday season, Mummelmann. People are spending time with their families for God's sake!
VGChartz can wait. Who wants to be up here all the time arguing it out? People are taking a break. Me included.
People DO have a life outside of this website, Mummelmann.

Hardware & architecture means not a doggone thing. It's software that matters.
All the tech in the world won't save you if your games aren't hot. Ask the Vita.
As Wii U gets those games, those sales will improve & improve & improve.
And then any arguments comparing Wii U to Gamecube will look quaint.
John Lucas

"You don't like how I dismantled your arguments in extreme detail in that massive rebuttal."

You never even adressed the arguments, you danced around them like you always do and filled your 35.000 word post with a bunch of philosophical nonsense and nostalgia tinged speculation. You also failed to adress my other posts in the thread, some of which held further arguments that you simply bypassed, I guess you could claim that there isn't enough time to have at it all but it's not my fault that you're so hung up on word count rather than content and take forever to answer one little post. I'm not sure which it is; if you're simply being in denial on purpose or if you're actually not bright enough to see how much a fool you're making yourself look in here lately. "Detail". Off-topic and self doting hogwash sprinkled with uninteresting Nintendo history lessons and a hack new age pshych analysis and the rhetoric of a creationist.

"People DO have a life outside of this website, Mummelmann." Implying that I don't? The difference is that I don't take several weeks to write essays on essentially nothing at all.

"Hardware & architecture means not a doggone thing. It's software that matters." Did I say that hardware and tech sell consoles? No, I'm talking about your knowledge on the field that you tried to pass off in your thread. It was really, really terrible and you should never have gone there. You think that software development cost is affected by the number of copies printed and the wattage of the chipsets for chrissake, and you never explained how developing games for one HD console will somehow be cheaper than others. Not to mention the massive contradictions all over the place. The fact that you're deflecting yet again is simply hilarious. It's like trying to enter a boxing match with someone who refuses to step into the ring and instead stands on the sideline shouting about his past, imginary records and victories with a bunch of wild-eyed teenage kids cheering him on.

Even benji himself saw my position and understands that we don't have the full story here, the data is incomplete and so he let it go, as did I until you showed up with your nonsense. You're just angry that I'm exposing your antics and lack of insight for all to see in your dear UNITY thread and we all know how much you love using incomplete data to further your hollow arguments.

Your behemoth posts are void of factual statements and rife with speculation, falsehoods and sheer delusion and your videos are plain awful. They're downright pathetic and you're the last one to talk about having a life outside of here, you're the one hell-bent on becoming an internet star and you hate that I got you pegged so badly so now you're jumping into arguments on other people's behalf, once again setting the parameters of the discussion (telling me which year I'm allowed to cite since there is no 8th gen competition in Japan) and lashing wildly in my direction.

Happy new year, spend 2014 learning something, you have obviously been at an intellectual standstill since 2007.

OK, I guess I'm going to have to say this yet again.

I wasn't arguing for the Wii U dominating because of the franchises I listed. I was providing a counterargument to the argument put forward by Rafux, by demonstrating that the franchises that he listed did not decide the 7th generation's lineup, and that most of the franchises he listed aren't actually all that dominant in Japan in the first place.

The key here was that Wii U has strong franchises to counter the Sony franchises listed. Neither one has some sort of natural advantage based on the franchises set for release, and a much more nuanced analysis would be necessary to make a serious prediction of how Wii U and PS4 will perform compared to each other.

Context matters.

Its only one year... lets wait. Trust me :))

I don't agree with your prediction and remember it's only a prediction so why should I trust you? Do you know the future? I think not. I'd rather stick with statistical data and trends when someone is predicting sales.

You also say it's only one year but that's a whole one year lead for the Wii U against the One and PS4 and even after that lead, the PS4 is just 1.6million behind and quickly catching up. In the span of 2 weeks ONE+PS4 sales >WiiU LTD.

bolded: and the only sony franchise listed was gran turismo.

In the current Japanese home console climate, Wii U is definitely putting up some good numbers. That's not disputable, as the latest charts show it sold well over 4x more than the rest of the consoles combined and the last couple weeks have seen a steady increase in sales (100%+ holiday bump versus PS3's 0%).

But let's not get ahead of ourselves here. It's competing with some pretty old gear.

Random note: Wii U 8gb Skylanders edition is $199 in Canada! Spread the word!

Tried to create a thread but keep getting an error message :S

OK, but the fact is that the competition was already there. There is no apparent reason why it could not be a success before. I just do not believe the theory that Wii Party is the sole responsible for the rise in sales. Maybe the word of mouth has finally kicked in and a movement of growth is stablished there. That is what I hope for.