Between being so late in the Wii U;s lifespan and plenty of Wii U owners willing or happy to upgrade to the Switch version the Wii U version is not going to reach 2 million.

As THE premiere launch game for the Switch, and one of very few launch games altogether, it will set sales charts on fire on the newer system. Practically everyone will get it at launch, and it will have legs on a system with a growing install base which will be far greater than the Wii U's ever was.

Even if Nintendo were to make the same number of units for the Wii U as for the Switch the latter would outsell the former by a considerable amount.

Yeah that's more like it. Nice signature btw

What can I say, I'm a lovable asshole.

I just don't get why people are so easily swayed.  Even Nintendo said themselves that they wouldn't kill the WiiU early because they didn't want to damage their releationship with their customers, then they did it anyway and everybody is absolutely fine.

We're basically saying "I don't mind spending 300 bucks on a console that will be supported for 3 years". This is outrageous!

Maybe I would actually be ok if the Switch was an improvment over the WiiU, instead of being the same console but portable... But I'm not spending 300 bucks again, and buying 70 bucks controllers , I'm not repeating the same mistake. This thing has no third party support, Nintendo is still not bringing the games we asked for and it's still too expensive for what it is (Miyamoto himself said the WiiU was too expensive, and they just repeat the same mistake)

Nintendo may not have learn from their mistakes, but I did. I'm out of this crap.

Wii u came out 4.5 years ago though? I don't mind buying the switch because there was plenty of games I liked on the Wii u so I got my money's worth. Zelda is a big enough franchise for me to upgrade to a new console for end off. GTA is another game I would upgrade to a new system for. Simples really.

So what? You don't represent any nintendo fan here. Your POV means shit here, you are not going dictate what is good or acceptable in a general sense. No need to say how your arguments and statements are pretty much flawed.

Get better and try harder next time.

Moderated - Miguel

Except Nintendo actually supported the Wii U for quite a while. In 2015 we still got titles such as Splatoon, Super Mario Maker and Xenoblade Chronicles. And in 2016 we got Twilight Princess HD, Pokkén Tournament and Paper Mario: Color Splash. And this year it will still get Breath of the Wild, the most ambitious Nintendo game ever developped.  

It's funny Sony constantly gets a pass for dropping support of the Vita after less than two years on the market, but somehow Nintendo gets a lot of flack for the Wii U despite the fact that they actually supported it for 5 years. 

I'm going to buy Wii U version.

wii u version for me but not against buying it again for Switch perhaps in a year or so when I get a Switch console.

the difference here is that Sony is not trying to sell you another handheld pretending they didn't screw you with the Vita.

Sony did screw up, badly, but they got out completely, but if Sony came back with another handheld, I would say the same thing : "don't buy it, you can't trust them"

It's kind of different to me though, because I didn't buy the PSP or the Vita, so it's less personal, I didn't get screwed personnally by Sony.

As for the WiiU being supported for "quite a while, 3 years isn't "quite a while" for me. If 2016 hasn't been so bad for the WiiU, if Zelda came in 2016, and if we got a few more games, I would have said that 2016 was ok, but we got an awful starfox, a lazy remaster of Zelda at full price, a rushed up disappointing paper mario, and weird otaku game. 2016 was just bad, really bad

The Switch is the succesor to both the Wii U and 3DS. The 3DS was a reasonable success and had great support from Nintendo. 

If Nintendo was going to make another seperate handheld and home console only then would they be screwing you over (because they can't support two platforms at once). But that's not the case now.