The craptastic advertising team at Nintendo have really put their foot in it. The Wii got away with not showing the console as it was so new/all about the remote. 

Now however they are trying to make it once again all about the pad, but that is exactly what it looks like - just a pad, a $350 pad. 

If MS capitalise on this opportunity and announce the next box soon, the Wii U will be lucky to hit 30 million. 

Nintendo advertised the console and put the emphasis on other advertising venues to promote its games. Nintendo Channel, Wara Plaza, and the eShop, its cheaper to promote games to their gamers and just focus on selling the console and use the more expensive general media to sell the console. It worked pretty well. I think they sould of done a few more ads.

Funny in a 20 mile Radius around my house.. there is nothing Nintendo except DS... and a few 3DS (No DSXL so I guess they are doing good..) Meanwhile you can go and pick up PS3, PSP Vita anywhere still.. (If they were open) and XBOX 360 is suffering from more supply then demand.. (Believe me I had to look yesterday... last minute shopper and all)

whats your zip code?

Hurry. What's the zip? So, we go buy up all the PS3 and PSV.

I was actually going to look for Wii's but from how long its taking him to respond it seems like he is making sure to buy them all up before I check

Store I work in was completely and totally in stock of pretty much every console. It's a fairly large store with a lot of stock. I believe we sold out or were close to selling out of the Wii U Deluxe after getting in 160 or so in our last couple of shipments. We still had a decent amount of basic consoles. Don't know how many we got in. Everything else we had plenty of.

I am always amazed that after even basic high school education, people in the developed world still don't grasp the idea of doing basic google / research to learn more about something. My guess is the average person's view on the Wii U right now are:

1) Have neard heard of it

2) Some tablet / gamepad add-on for the Wii

3) An HD version of the Wii with a new gamepad that just makes all Wii games play in HD but it's not a next generation Nintendo console.

Right now the sales of the Wii U are reasonable because so many hardcore fans/Nintendo gamers are buying it. We'll see what happens in 6-8 months once that wave of gamers have purchased their console. I think Nintendo needs a better way to convince the average person through TV or other forms of advertising that the Wii U is actually a next gen Nintendo console. Of course having a graphically impressive and highly rated 1st party AAA game would help portray this but Nintendo has none at the moment.

I think Nintendo made a mistake by leveraging off the Wii name. They should have called this new console Nintendo Revolution or something different so consumers know right away it has nothing to do with the Wii and the GamePad truly is a revolutionary new console feature. Maybe just call it Super Wii (NES --> SNES and Wii --> Super Wii), or Wii 2. So simple, yet so effective.

Pretty much for my store too. Though, I think we still had a decent amount of Wii U deluxe model because I remember putting away a shipment of about 30 but that was a few days ago I didn't look to see how many sold over the course

did you correct them! no you didn't. this is one of those spurge telling nintendo i won't do your marketing for you, if you can't do it yourself things.