week 2 wiiu sales in North America  are 141,187 according to VGchartz front page.

Yeah, we only have access to USA sales though. Complete access at least.

well I wrote that to point that USA sales, can not be bigger than North America sales.  Which is what the op posted.

USA: 542,583

NA: 141,187

It makes no sense.

Those are the totals, not week 2 alone. It should actually be 553,037 according to your numbers.

These are total sales. Or else, the Wii had seven 1m+ weeks in the US alone!

Interesting, I'll be keeping tabs on this thread!

Was Wii's first week also the week of BF?

The XBox 360 launched November 21st 2005, the PS3 launched November 17th 2006, and the Wii launched November 19th 2006 ...

Home consoles are ALWAYS supply constrained at launch and post mediocre sales. It's like a curse or something: Either supply is way lower than promised or the console gets pushed back. It happened to the 360, the PS3, the Wii, the PSP (in Europe at least - I didn't see one in store for weeks after launch), even the Dreamcast sold out! The PS2 was probably the only console that wasn't seriously supply constrained (as far as I remember) because retailers and Sony anticipated huge demand and Sony had no problems shipping an ultra huge amount of units (700k+ in Japan first week). And the PS3's European launch was pretty smooth as well - because it had launched months earlier in the rest of the world and Sony shipped more than 600k units.

tl;dr: If a console wasn't pushed back in your territory or expected to totally break all sales record (i.e. not the PS2...) expect it to be supply constrained. Also, expect posters all over the world to doom the console. See you late 2013 for a copy and paste of this post

cumulative sales?

Why are duplicating my thread?