Maybe around 2m lifetime.

There is analog controls. The majority will just go with that.

Looking back I do think I worded that a bit wrong. Nintendo's advertising a year ago and further back was pretty spotty and not the best. But this year they have been doing a great job. I've actually seen many Nintendo ads both online and on TV for Splatoon, SMM, the Wii U and 3DS and various 3DS games. 

It's just that I feel like they need to be willing to sell a more niche game like Star Fox Zero. 

I'll guess somewhere around 750k-800k.
Possibly 1 million depending marketing, reception, and legs.
If it was originally releasing back in November, I'd have said 1 million, easy. But now that the Wii U's life is just about ending and it's right at the tail end. I'm unsure if it can carry.

When did gamers start caring so much about the selling of games and consoles?
I see more articles asking or discussing these things and I don't think one relates to games being good or bad. There are some bad games that sell very well and good games that sell awful and vice versa. But this has become a major focus this generation and people are no longer asking if a game is going to be good or not, but how well will it sell on said system...

I say 800k - 1.2 mil

And a 76 metascore

I dunno bout the rest of the internet. It doesn't really feel like the overall gaming media is any more concerned about sales than before. It's just that you are on VGCharts, a stie dedicated to tracking the sale of games and consoles, so naturally the focus on a game's sales is going to be rather high, certainly way above the norm. This doesn't mean that anyone here thinks sales = quality, just that they are interested in how much various games sell.

1.2M LT.

With its arrival late in Wii U's life, its presentation, and a lot of the criticism it has drawn, I expect it to land somewhere in the 500k - 1m range personally.

Well star wars is a kiddy type of game and they dont need to worry about pokken tournament marketing since the Pokemon company usually handles that. Since it looks like a "kiddy game" I can see Nintendo advertising it well.