I think between 250k and 300k is reasonable worlwide. EU will leave Nintendo hanging though, NoE did a terrible job advertising the console over here. I will be surprised if the U breaks 80k second week in EU.

So, I just wanna be sure I've understood this right. We're here to predict what Wii U's global sales will be in it's second week of being available WW? So that week is actually THIS weeks sales? Since this is the second week it's available WW.

You know that not the whole Europe launched yet? For example, Russia, we are NoE territory, but we'll start getting WiiU consoles only after 21th of December and in VERY limited amount. Yes, I know that Russia is Sonyland mostly, but Nin still can sell some thousands units here at launch...

I guess yes you could say the fact that more WiiU's were shipped to account for any supply constraints will allow the console to sell more by the end of December, but the Wii was also that years "hot item" and every Wii that could be found was sold. Although the WiiU's increased # of units available can help,  the WiiU does not have the same "hot item" status attached to it.

I guess what I'm saying is that I agree that selling more than 3 million is very much a possibility, I just don't see it happening. The resale price for online vendors, and overall demand just doesn't seem high enough to outdo the Wii's performance in its first 2 months on the market. I could be wrong though! :P

And back to the topic - I agree it will be around 300 000 2nd week.

Well 2nd week of sales if we align the launches from the 3 major markets... So 2nd week sales (Next Week) in Europe and Japan where it just launched... and 2nd week sales (This week) for North America.

Yeah, here's hoping that the rest of Europe can boost the sales by enough to offset the poor first week... I think we won't see such a sharp drop after launch in Europe as we have and will in North America and Japan.

About (130 000 / 412 000)*100 percent of the first week sales in Europe. In japan, the same as first week with an error margin of about 20 percent in either direction.

31.5% of 1st week in Europe? Thats really low don't you think?? Do you mean it will go down by that amount?

So I don't know, how's the supply situation in US/UK, but in Russia we had VERY supply constrained launch. No units at all.

Funny thing - they promised launch 30th of November, same as the rest of Europe, a lot of people preordered. But then 26th of Novemer Nintendo of Russia made an official statement: "Launch delayed till 21st of December."