Whatever, It's Christmas season and I feel optimistic, I'll say 10m before e3.

The handheld that connects to TV idea is out, recent comments at financial reports suggest they won't do this. They talked about having their handheld and console being more unified like "brothers", having them "absorb" the Wii U architecture and having multiple "form factors".

This is somewhat vague and obviously is up for interpretation, perhaps they will simply have a smaller gap in power compared to previous generations and with both having the same architecture they can pump out games at a faster pace or have more cross-platform titles. Or perhaps they will go for the Vita/Vita TV approach where both devices have essentially the same hardware and share all the same games, each piece of hardware costing the same so it just comes down to whether u want to play on the go or on a TV. Either way they have pretty much ruled out the handheld that connects to a TV approach.

Well if it gets to 9 million by the end of the year and does at least 50K/week for all of 2015 leading up to E3 2015 in June then it will reach 10 million by E3. It is still possible since it has been selling over 50K since the end of October and Nintendo is going to continue to release their franchise games every month. But the Wii U was supposed to get to 10 million by the end of this year and sadly that is no longer possible. 

They are depressing, Nintendo has to step it up. I don't hardly ever play the system because of everything it lacks.

I don't think they will be cutting cost any time soon,  no matter what they are going to do, they are not going to see a massive upshift in sales. So I think if they where going to lower cost, they would have already done it for this holiday season.

Also if Xbox keeps the price at 350, this will also be cutting into Nintendo's sales, sense they are essentially so close in cost. So I'm going to say it will hit 10,000,000 after E3, I hope I'm wrong but I think sales are going to drop of hard because of the lack of a price cut.

I think that it will, but you guys need to recognize that having 10M sold by the consoles' 3rd year on the market is fucking depressing, especially when you consider that the PS4 is very close to reaching 20M just after one year on the market.

If it was bundled, it would have had the same effect as Mario Kart 8, but also the holiday boost. Some people here thought it would rach 10m by the end of December

Q4 2013: 390k

Q4 2014: 300k

This year, to meet it's forecast, they would have to ship roughly 100-250k in Q4 (assuming they ship roughly 2.2m which is almost garanteed). I'd say that there is next to no chance that Q3 shipments go down YoY. Europe and US are up YoY. And that's where Nintendo always send most of their shipments. The decline in Japan will easily be offset by those 2 regions. 

With that said, I can't see them beating their forecast by a signicant margin. I think their going to be either spot on or very close (like 3.7m). But I also can't see their Q3 2014 shipments being down YoY lol. 

I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Actually, there has been a raise in sales YoY in Europe and US. The only place that is down is Japan. Also, I do believe that Nintendo pointed out that BF week was their biggest week ever for WiiU sales. I think that their going to somewhat maintain that momentum going into December and probably see a sales boost of 20-30% YoY in december's NPD and in Europe. 

During E3 12m