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Conegamer said:

You're really on the ball, you know.

And people here are actually somewhat pleased by Wii U sales, because they're bad but not as bad as feared.

 

Also that data looks like it was from last NPD, not this one. The Wii U weekly sales were around 17k this month.

So what? This article is showing how the Wii U's weakest week is almost record breaking, and is if we consider how long it's been out compared to the timespan of the other consoles worst weeks on record. 

Immortal said:
Not that I disagree that Wii U's sales are pathetic, but that article is really grasping. When it comes to making February's improvement seem worse, they point out that Jan sales were higher than reported. When they're making comparisons to other consoles, though, they conveniently use these inaccurate numbers. At least be consistent.

Using February numbers, which may still be inaccurate for the same reason as January, we get 16k/week in 4 months. Oh, look at that; it's pretty comparable to the PS3. Worse, definitely. And you'd have to be blind to not think that the Wii U is in serious trouble. But no need to sensationalize it.

It's one of the worst launches ever, but it's hardly bad enough to be in a completely different league from recent bad launches. Definitely gonna be hard for Nintendo to get through this, but it wouldn't be unprecedented for Wii U to recover.

Why are you comparing other weeks? The article is about worst weeks on record, not general sales....

This is sensationlism; it's showing how demand for the Wii U is very lacking as it has almost a record breaking low volume of sales in any given week, and yet it is a matter of months into launch.