^Your sig was answer enough to the question.

I'm not blown away like I was with the Wii, but I didn't expect to be, either.

Europe's numbers aren't great so far, but considering that WiiU will likely finish the year not too far behind Wii's numbers in 2006, that's not a bad start at all.

I'm impressed with the US numbers but disappointed in Europe and Japan. Japan especially considering it had Mario and Monster Hunter at launch. I was expecting 400k for a lineup like that. I'm not sure what happened in Europe, maybe they under-stocked? US sales were better than I thought they would be, guess people aren't tired of the NSMB series yet.

so... you made this thread... why then?

I'm just saying sold out means nothing for a new console.

Not impressed at all, expected far more for the Wii successor that launched with 2D Mario and good 3rd party games.

exactly, which basically means that right now demand hasn't even started affecting sales since they are still supply constrained.  So how can somebody be impressed or not impressed by a measure that has nothing to do with desire to own?  

Basically, you are asking if people are impressed with Nintendo's ability to manufacture consoles...

That's actually what I'm "not impressed" about. I would have thought that Nintendo would have shipped way more consoles out for their launch, especially since the console was released right before Black Friday.

We need to realize that it all depends on the manufacturing (Foxconn) and vendor supply lines of hundreds of companies, not just Nintendo.

If 1 company has a supply issue, the whole supply line is bottlenecked.   This is why we've seen 3 different RAM vendors already.