http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/07/nintendo-expected-100m-wii-u-sold/

It wasn't him. In fact, he warned about the Wii U.

He's not the one who said that. 

This is what he said:

“In an internal sales representative meeting, someone projected that we would sell close to 100 million Wii U systems worldwide,” he said. “The thinking was that because Wii sold well, Wii U would follow suit. I said that, since the Wii had already sold so well, we need to clearly explain the attraction of the Wii U if we are to get beyond that and sell the new system, and that this would be no easy task.”

better?

You can blame lawlight for that one.

Really? You can't simply admit you were mistaken? You prefer making up a baseless assumption instead of taking his claims as facts? 

I will keep that in mind.

EDIT: Lawlight isn't a good example to take after. Just saying.

That was nintendo, not Kimishima. http://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/12/03/nintendo-president-tatsumi-kimishima-apparently-didnt-say-the-wii-u-would-fail/#711168ae222b

he said that it wouldn't flop automatically- rather, it would be difficult to gain the amount of support the Wii did.

I saw lawlight post it, with text that i assumed was from the article, the text he posted suggested nintendos president himself thought it would sell 100m and since I was on mobile I didn't feel like clicking through then having to put up with vgchartz shitty ad placement a second time.

Should we compliment him when he hasnt proven anything yet?

I can't recall anybody critizacing him before. As far as I remember, his criticism of the WiiU wasn't plubicly spread until he became president, and WiiU was already dead.

I've talked about this lots of times before the actual Switch reveal (when Eurogamer began the hybrid rumours). On one hand, development will be more straightforward and efficient. On the other hand, they lose out on suckers like me who buy both their consoles and handhelds, and buy lots of games that will now be just one game instead of 2 (like MKWii and MKDS) on the Switch.

To be honest, I always thought that the best approach would've been to have 2 platforms with very similar development environments, so games like Mario Kart and 3D Mario could have the same engine running on both platforms, but with different level design and more graphical bells and whistles on the console. It'd decrease the work they need to put in development by a lot, whilst allowing for more revenue since they sell 2 different games instead of just 1. This'd also make the console at least PS4 level.

Alas, I gotta settle for what we actually got :S