No gamecube was at 99$...It got two price cuts,one of 50$ in 2002 and another one  of 50$ in 2003,199$->149$->99$ Well,I wish you would  be right about the 149$,it would mean that gamecube would be with one price cut be by that time and the comparison with wii u would be fairer!

Now we compare a system with two yearly back to back price cuts vs a system at full price,very illuminating comparison,and way fair...

Are you listening to yourself?

i know 2 people with wii u smash. 1 person with 3ds. Maybe in japan. but who would buy a console to play a significantly down graded version of a game?

Maybe someone who likes gaming on a handheld. I'd rather play a game on psvita over ps4 even though I have both and I know that it will most likely run
 better in a ps4.

I think a lot of you are forgetting something HUGE.

As of today, Its taken WiiU from almost 3 years to barely reach 9.5mil (lets say 9.7mil for the hell of it) in console sales. This number happened because of awesome games like Smash/Kart 8/DK: TF/Pikmin 3/Mario 3d world/NSMB WiiU/Mario party 10/Nintendo Land/Toads Treasure Tracker and exclusive 3rd party games like ZombiU/W101/Bayonetta 2/Hyrule Warriors. Some of these games have even received QUALITY/affordable DLC and millions of Amiibo to push the "on the fence" gamers to get a WiiU........

^ and yet the WiiU ONLY sold 9.7mil. Some of the biggest megatons the company has were dropped in the first 3 years and ONLY 9.7mil consoles have been sold. This is pretty damn bad.



Look, i love my WiiU. I bought the thing at launch, play it at least 5 times a week for multiple hours a night (i even run large scale smash bros events with it on some weekends) and it is the only console i own. I am in no doubt a nintendo hater/basher but dear lord there is no way the WiiU will hit 20mil by 2018 (NX will be out by Nov 2018).

Do you really think Splatoon, Zelda, XenoBlade 2, StarFox WiiU and Metroid WiiU/F-Zero WiiU (lets assume these are happening) will dish out another 10.3mil in console sales by 2018? Yes, im sure there will be other great WiiU games come out in between all these games that ive not listed but honestly the big hitter here is Zelda. Zelda will def sell consoles but not at the rate a casual+competitive friendly Kart/Smash (both of which have quality/low cost DLC) would in the long haul.

Again, i wanna agree that WiiU will hit 20mil by the time NX arrives but i honestly cant see it happening.

It's just two and a half years, though i'd basically would agree.

Console sales would have to explode, that's unlikely. Instead, every Nintendo home console in the last 20 years sold best in the first years with heavily diminishing sales after four years.
So even with Wii U getting a successor in 2018 it seems unlikely that it will sell well from 2017 onwards.

Now, how long will it be produced and sold? The Gamecube didn't work to well for Nintendo. So they stopped production just after the Wii Release. Wii U sells worse, though, because it's expensive to manufacture, at a much higher price. Again, seems unlikely that it's produced longer than until early 2019. Depending on U's on the shelf they might even stop production before a successor arrives.

If it where possible for Nintendo to sell Wii U for 149,-€/$ from Q3 2015 onwards, well then i could see it reaching 20 million.

And by the way, they had it in their hands last year. 249$/€ pricecut, SSBU coming at least one or two month before SSB3D, Xenoblade X out in Japan in november/december etc and Wii U might have reached 12 million last year. But it didn't.

EDIT:

This is the quote: "With respect to the impact of Wii U hardware sales on profit and loss, in order to sell 3.60 million units, we have to produce some more hardware units on top of our current hardware inventory."

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If i read Iwata's comments correctly, Nintendo stopped making Wii Us.
I don't know what Investor Meeting it was, but if i find out, i'll update this post.

There was a comment in one of the Investor Meetings where Iwata mentioned that Nintendo would have to produce more Wii Us.

It makes sense, after all. When they even reached a point where, in Europe, they had to take inventory back (10k units or so, i think) then you can bet that they had enough stock for a good number of months.

Well, i know 3 people with 3DS version, and 0 with the Wii U version... and i live in Europe, not in Japan. (Italy for be correct)

Where you live?

People just don't want it. And it's games obviously aren't interesting enough for them. There's no big elaborate explanation.