I'm not sure what's going on but you seem not to be reading what I've said numerous times:

15,000 units in 10 minutes. 
15,000 units in 10 minutes. 
15,000 units in 10 minutes. 

The fact that you are purposefully ignoring that makes me think you are going to argue this until the end of time for personal reasons rather than anything to do with the industry. 

Here's a nice example: In the same paragraph you compare VR to both Kinect and electric cars. That's rediculous. VR sits in an entirely different market to both products and, to date, VR's situation is entirely different. 

You don't work in the correct industry to know what marketing speech is, and that comment by Palmer Lucky is not marketing speech - that's just a unfounded pessimistic view which ties into you wanting to argue this for personal reasons rather than the evidence infront of you.

VR IS predicted to sell a lot. The fact you are thinking the opposite from the figures you read shows you do not have the knowledge to discuss this.

Nobody here has any experience in marketing or product management so forgive me if I raise issues with what are inexperienced, and sometimes flat out wrong, opinions with a sack full of salt. It's funny that you now want me to verify my credentials, yet you're unwilling to state what experience you have. Do you really think it's unreasonable to imagine someone in the world has more experience on a topic than people who don't work in that industry...?

Why am I having to tell you that TIME is a very important figure to consider when looking at sales? Why are you ignoring the speed at which it sold? If the Wii U sold 15 million units in 10 seconds rather than 10 years, wouldn't that be a bit of a game changer? *sigh*

Well I'm going to presume it's the services industry because that seems to be a sensible conclusion from what you've been saying as the only reason you labelled something as marketing is due to pessimism, which, unsurprisingly, wouldn't hold up if you were doing a competitor analyis:

Jim: "How is product A performing? We need to know for end of year financials!"
Rol: "Well they say good, but it's actually bad"
Jim: "...."
Rol: "Y'know, marketing fluff innit"
Jim: "You're fired"

My expertise isn't in predicting sales numbers. Just go with what the paid professionals said in the article you linked (wtf)...

Your point is? The Wii U is a console that failed in capturing a market. PS VR is expected to capture 64% of the market. Sounds like we have a winner and a loser.

Unless you madly think sales will flatline after those 10 minutes, your comment is again more unfounded pessimism rather than anything with substance. 

When we consider the predicted size of the market, looks like they are on the way to fulfilling that prediction.

Preorder numbers really mean nothing other than it will have a strong launch, the people who are preordering PSVR a whopping 7 months before release are not the aversge consumer. Awesome, a bunch of enthusiasts and tech geeks want a PSVR day 1, that however does not gaurantee it will be successful in the long run.

Market investment really doesnt mean anything either, so what if companies have invested billions, are you going to claim that every product with a large investment has been successful?

I would think an expert like yourself would know the preorders and market investment do not gaurantee that a product will be a massive and long term success.

No, the Wii U captured a tiny segment of the console market (basic math and far less than what Nintendo expected), whereas PSVR is expected to capture 64% of the VR market.

Overinflated hype based on what exactly? Pessimism isn't an argument. 

Ha. Tech companies don't invest billions of dollars with little thought...

Every single possible marker at this moment in time is showing VR is doing well, from presales, to customer feedback. Remember, pessimism isn't an arugment. So, ask yourself this: 

What figures/facts are you looking for? 

Yeah, because these predictions always come close to reality. ;) Microsoft also invested billions in Windows Phone while IDC and Gartner predicted a market share of at least 20% for WindowsPhone and at least 10% for BlackBerry until 2015.

Or this glorious 7th gen console sales prediction:

Look at the original predicitions by Nintendo for Wii U sales. Also you're confusing sales and market positioning.

As far as I'm aware, Gartner haven't made any VR predictions, and none that I've quoted. Just because a single analyst made a mistake doesn't mean all analysts are likely to be wrong...

Its weird how split people are on the topic of VR.
Some seem to hate it with a passion, others are really optimistic about it.

Im amoung those optimistic for it...

My reason is the Marketing research, the intrest in owning VR is very high.

"According to the company’s recent survey, 74% of U.S. respondents under 18 years of age indicated that they were “very interested” in virtual reality." - quote SuperData Stephanie Llamas.

The only problem is the price.

I think once it gets down to 300$ (scale of production), the sales will sky rocket.

So far:
Sales & preorder for VR headsets look promissing.

I dont think VR is a fad, that ll just pass at some point, its here to stay (imo) and it ll only grow and grow over time.

We can't really know all that much until a product is readily available (or suffering from shortages) and has actually hit stores. I'm sure those of us who were gaming in the early 2000's still remember when Nokia shipped about 400k million n-gage's in the first two weeks and sold through about 6k combined in the two biggest markets (US and UK).

My point is that company expectation and actual performance are often quite different. I'm not saying VR will crash and burn like n-gage but initial interest and pre-orders are not a surefire way of measuring future success, even the OUYA had a lot of backers from the start.
At the current suggested price points and likely fairly low level of implementation to begin with, there isn't much reason to believe that VR will become a mainstream hit for a few years still, on the PC side there is also the issue of hardware requirements to further complicate matters.
Kinect was less than half the price of the cheapest VR goggles that will be available at first.

Edit; isn't this grossly off-topic?!

Ya its quite obvious that they put thought into it, that has nothing to do with what i said.

Pessimism isnt my argument, im actually pretty open-minded about VR, i even said a few posts back that i can imagine it being anywhere from a niche enthusiast product to a casual driven fad to a revolutionary industry standard. The point is that its way too early to to tell how it will do in the long term.

Im not looking for any figures/facts, i simply think you are wrong that VR is the only viable option for Nintendo to take.