I bought it at launch and assumed it would do reasonably well - better than most of the negative articles at the time predicted - But once 2012 ended and they started announcing game delays I was surprised how unclear it was who they were targeting for the Wii u - I bought our Wii u for my sons 8 th bday but game selection was very limited for his age younger and family gaming ( he had become a little Mario platformer weary by Then too)
The more hardcore gamer selection was thin too - they just did not seem to have conviction or direction - then the big game drought - buti still thought they would get it together - but after last e3 and holiday 2013 they just did not seem like they were going to get it together soon enough - They can still salvage something w the Wii u but it won t be big sales - Nintendo has seemed willing to sacrifice the Wii u for some reason - they have yet to have a sense of urgency for it

I did. I predicted the Wii fanbase was not primarily composed of loyal gamers, but rather majorly only people who tried it because it was a widely televised fad. I predicted that if Nintendo did not create a Wii HD version of the original Wii that they would lose them until they came up with another fad since they didnt continue the with the motion controls. All they are doing is confusing non-gamers with the Wii U and exciting known fans whom only are composed of about 20-30 million people. This brings them back to square one since they had less than stellar third party as well.

i expected between 30 and 40...
=(

This is how it was like for me.

2008:

They're next console won't have "Wii" in it.

2012 (I discovered about it then)

Wii... U... Okay.

I get tired of being right all the time.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4612395

5th June 2012

I knew this would happen as soon as E3 2012 was over. A year had passed since the console was first unveiled, and we hardly knew anything new about the system mere months before launch, not even an official date and price yet. The promise of unprecedented 3rd party support announced at E3 2011 was all but gone just a year later, some of the biggest games of the year weren't even announced yet for the system like COD BLOPS II, and all we got at launch were a couple of uninspired 3rd party titles like ZombiU, a 2D Mario game to launch Nintendo's first HD console, and a lame minigame compilation in Nintendoland that failed in every way to catch on with audiences the way Wii Sports did when the Wii launched all those years ago.

Get lives

BlackGoku Alt banned,

-Mr Khan

i think he means rol, he was pretty vocal about nintendo's failure to follow their wii strategy. 

i predicted bang or bust. i didn't get the wiiU.  i didn't believe superchunk in his attempts to convience everyone the wiiU wouldn't be underpowered relative to the ps4 and nextbox. i knew the "core" would ignore it.  i was pretty sure the casuals wouldn't come back but i'd be lying if i said i felt any confidence in understanding what that market would want.  so i figured either gamecube levels or 100 millon.  i didn't see anything inbetween being realistic. 

I somewhat did, well i was expecting sales of 40 million, but that was too optimistic.

I thought it would do 30 million lifetime, but instead it will do 15.