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America numbers are decent (below what they should be, but not bad). But Europe is getting a lot of special editions, discounts left and right, and good promotions, and yet the numbers are very low. The amount of effort that the European branch of Nintendo is not really reflecting on the sales (at all).

If the Wii U averages about 11k more per week than it did last year, then that would mean a cumulative increase in sales of 572k. That means it might sell around 4.3 Mil this year, if the holiday isn't a big one.That'll means 13 mil lifetime by the end of the year. That is all with a very conservative estimate of only 11k /per week more. I'm sure some weeks the difference will be much greater, and not so many weeks in which it is less.

Then let's say it sells 3.5 mil (2016), 1.5 mil (2017), and 1.5 mil (rest of life) after that. That leaves a lifetime of 19.5 million sales. Not too bad for a low estimate. Either way the people who predicted 15 mil lifetime are going to be wrong.

It's pretty hard to sell less than 15 million unless you completely abandon a system after 2 years or so.

The Dreamcast would've sold in the range of 15-20 million too if Sega could've kept supporting it.

19.5 million LTD is still horrible.

That is a low estimate though, assuming a steep decline in sales after this year. 19.5 isn't too far from the 21.74 million of the Gamecube. 

So far so good.

It'll probably stay up YOY up until MK8's release week. Don't think there's anything except Zelda this year that could possibly top that boost.

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and nice to see the Wii U is up YoY, hope it can keep it up even after the MK8 launch

I don't think it's a low estimate, and I don't think Wii U will consistently stay 11k/week above the Wii U from last year. 

No Mario Kart or Smash Brothers or 3D Mario for Wii U this year. 

The GameCube continues to outsell the Wii U monthly easily, the gap between the two is not shrinking, it grows bigger each month. Unless the Wii U has massive 2017/18 it's not getting within spitting distance of the GameCube IMO. 

No need for forecasting bad sales now when sales are still up year over year. Save the concern for the summer.

We don't really even know if sales are up YoY definitively yet so I'd hold off on counting chickens before they're hatched. 

There's been many times where people starting crowing over Wii U being "up YoY!" and then it basically turned out to be VGChartz overtracking the system, which it has a tendancy to do. 

There's no point in "concern" for the system either way -- it is what it is ... a dud of a system sales wise. Nothing really is going to change that now. That bus left the station a long time ago. 

When this gen is looked back upon, under pretty much no context will the Wii U be looked at as a success, sales wise. I think that's pretty safe to say.