Don't forget that it will be published in WSJ ! People will always buy it, even if it isn't for Naruto ! So they'll surely try it !
The real matter will be if people are gonna be buying the volumes and watching the movie ! I don't think they will buy tickets before the movie release as they did with the last, but if someone says that "Sasuke was amazing in the movie" then people will go watch it !
maybe "Naruto" (the character) did loose a lot of fans, just like Kishi, but Sasuke and Kakashi didn't !
Subscriptions to WSJ does not comprise the majority of sales and revenue for Kishi. I would legimitely surprised if the total was greater than a third of their income overall. But it's as you explained it. While the general cast of characters from this new generation may not be the prime motivational factor that's resulting in a large turnout, Sasuke's compelling and foreboding presence as the repentant warrior with the strength and guile from his days as an avenger will cause the box office to swell up to at least a standard profit amount.
Speaking of NH fans, I had an incident on Twitter with a few Jp fans, where I was told I was being mistaken as a NH spy due my lack of Twitter knowledge, it's all cleared up and I somewhat became friends with them...felt like a jerk because they came to apologize to me at once 
I didn't know NH fans do that to JP fans though
Now why are Japanese fans being targeted if the vast majority are supporting of Kishi's finale in the manga? These people sound embittered and vindictive because not everyone is bending their knees in supplication to forgive their stupidity in ever believing that Hinata and her obsession with Naruto would not become the centre of the universe in the end.
Your still talking about a lost of potentially 60-70 percent of your market, and for what? The more the idea is presented, what I think happened is this. They took what they believed to be the most rabbid aspect of the fanbase, appealed to them, and are now going to rely on them, well they also are attempting to appeal to a newer younger demographic. Which is why they are shifting the focus onto another "knuckle headed" young ninja, who comes from a home that doesn't "understand him", which is the most vanilla background you can give a protagonist directed towards tweens.
I just think it's a stupid marketing idea, and I don't see how they are going to make up for what they've lost.
They're turning to the West and various other regions of the world to maintain their franchise now. Hinata fandom may be a fringe concept in Japan, but in other countries she's likely to be the most popular female character in Naruto. Pierrot is taking a large gamble in hoping that they will offer financial and social stability from here on out, as you already mentioned.
It's more than just a rehashing of the old concepts to draw in youth. This movie was the first push in a direction that extends past the boundaries of typical shonen drama. Kishi and Pierrot are hoping to expand the series to a wider audience by incorporating foreign elements that appeal to other demographics.
So this is what we will probably get to see from Sakura in Part 3.
The only word that comes to mind is "disgusting". Kishi did not have to degrade Sakura into an object of perversion and vice for her to be deemed a positive character. If he could have just incorporated Sakura more into the core events of the story - make her stronger, more understandable to the people, a girl who is capable of moving beyond her childish affections, and realising the things and people that make her most happy, that would have helped change the general perception of her.
This is just a flimsy attempt at getting more attention for Sakura by sexualising her with cheap characteristics that never fit who she was. What happened to Kishi's protectiveness of her? The modesty of her appearance is something that he used to take great pride in.
The Sakura from the Kazekage Rescue arc is the woman that people wanted to see, not some mentally childish floozy with a glaring emphasis on sex appeal like Ino.
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