How can Nintendo gamers even talk about other system failing?

[UncleScrooge]

Aielyn said:

UncleScrooge said:
It's the truth. the Gamecube sold 5m units a year for the first few years on the market. The Vita sold, what, 3.5m in 2012? And the Wii U's weekly sales are below the Vita's sales pace right now (I know the launch itself was stronger but current sales are below Gamecube level - this site once had a weekly sales graph for 6th gen consoles and the Gamecube did like 50k a week in normal weeks. Your account is from 2007 so you probably knew about that tool). I don't expect the Wii U to end up at 5m units this year, btw. But current sales are really that bad. Also, I guess "bashing" was the wrong word lol. I like being realistic. When people say it's all flowers and fairies I want to go against that notion. The Wii U, Vita and 3DS are all selling way below expectations right now. Totally silly behaviour, I know...

The GC sold 5 million a year for the first few years. The Wii U has sold half that amount in two months. I really don't see how your argument makes any sense.

And how is the Wii U selling right now? I'm not talking about the launch sales. I'm talking full years on the market. Gamecube in 2001 (when it was released everywhere but Europe) did over 2m units (it did more than 1m in Japan alone). So its launch "year" was comparable to the Wii U. In 2002 and 2003 the Gamecube did roughly 5m units a year. That's what I'm talking about. Do you think the Wii U will keep up that holiday sales pace and double its LTD sales in the next 2 months? You can't just use holiday / launch sales and take that as the sales pace of a console. The Vita sold 300k units in its first week in Japan - should we just extrapolate that number to predict its yearly sales? The PS3 did 600k units in Europe first week - how did that develop? The Wii U is currently (!) on pace to do 150k units a month according to VGChartz. That's definitely not above Gamecube level.