The problem with those predictions is fan overestimation, it's more like wishful thinking than an actual real well-thought estimation, just like those who believed PS4 would hit 20M mark.

The problem is in Nintendo's case people didn't read the clues Nintendo were giving. Nintendo lowered their estimation for units sold to really low numbers this fiscal year (which I believe will be achieved), didn't cut the console's price, didn't release a smash bundle, etc, which, in my opinion are indications of the route Nintendo was going to take: sell few with bigger profit instead of selling a lot with lower profit/loss.

Like I've stated many times, non-Nintendo fans sometimes seem to have a grip against Nintendo and talk a lot about "what Nintendo should do since they are so doomed and doing terribly" like they know for sure Nintendo is in such a bad situation. But we don't know that, at the end of the generation, if Nintendo is happy with the final outcome of the consoles, I'm happy for them, if they're not, will just be happy as a gamer for playing this incredible console with some of the generation's best games.

Also, I believe that, come the end of the fiscal year, when they show their financial results, they'll report a very nice profit, probably even better than Sony's or Microsoft's. And if that's the case I'm pretty sure they'll continue supporting the WiiU longer than most are predicting.

Like others have said, Nintendo protected profits when they knew that price wouldn't have helped with both the PS4 and XB1 going into overdrive to market the shit out of their consoles for the last 12 weeks.

I would expect a price drop at a time when their is little that the competition is doing. That along with a reasonable marketing push with a release of one of their games to add to the fire.

Will it "turn the tide"? Probably for 4-6 weeks. Then it might help the system to not drop like a rock in sales on a consistent basis. They need to do it soon, as I think M$ will be doing some things by mid February or early March too.

I think Zelda will be a cross platform game like twilight princess

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The only card left for Nintendo to play from Sega's road to failure, is what you are suggesting. If Nintendo just kills off the WiiU and release a new console by 2016, they will be doing just that. 

Nobody wants a Wii U, that's what happened

Many people overestimated Smash Bros Wii U.

I can sum it up in one word: Gamepad

Pretty much this.

Over 8 million people disagree, i wouldn´t call that Nobody

It´s selling like mad but they missed the opportunity to bundle it with the console for the holiday season