The Wii's victory was empty. The WIi U Nintendos "Redemption Song" but they might have bit off a bit more than they can chew going after the avid gamer crowd while having the competition they've got.

The WiiU isn't selling below GameCube level at all, where do you get this crap from? Also, it seems silly to bash every console selling poorly, but I guess some people like being silly...

It's the truth. the Gamecube sold 5m units a year for the first few years on the market. The Vita sold, what, 3.5m in 2012? And the Wii U's weekly sales are below the Vita's sales pace right now (I know the launch itself was stronger but current sales are below Gamecube level - this site once had a weekly sales graph for 6th gen consoles and the Gamecube did like 50k a week in normal weeks. Your account is from 2007 so you probably knew about that tool). I don't expect the Wii U to end up at 5m units this year, btw. But current sales are really that bad. Also, I guess "bashing" was the wrong word lol. I like being realistic. When people say it's all flowers and fairies I want to go against that notion. The Wii U, Vita and 3DS are all selling way below expectations right now. Totally silly behaviour, I know... 

i don't think it was empty stage,100m consoles is very very good and i'm sure the nintendo crowd enjoyed the victory nicely :)

1. You do know what "one of" means, right? Perhaps you should avail yourself of TakeMeToTheHospital's teaching services. :P

And no, the fact that it is around the same amount of sales as PS1 means nothing - there's precisely one console that noticeably outsold it, the PS2. At best, there's one more that is just a touch ahead, and the Wii is still selling. This makes it one of the best-selling consoles of all time. There's simply no disputing that fact, no matter how much you might want to jump up and down and scream "but PS1".

2. PS2 shipped more, maybe. That doesn't mean it sold more. Even if it had, though, he didn't say the system with the largest number of sales, he said best-selling. The DS sold better than the PS2 did, as demonstrated by the fact that, after 8 years, the PS2 had sold, at best, 130 million units, whereas the DS, having been out for just over 8 years, is now over 153 million. And the PS2 has stopped production, while the DS continues to sell.

3. The European launch was outside of the launch window for the system itself. That meant that all of the launch window titles were theoretically available on day 1 in Europe. It's a very different situation. But lets look at the numbers, anyway. Global numbers, that is.

Six calendar months PS3 sales, November 2006-April 2007 (includes European launch in March): 3.24 million

Incomplete three calendar months Wii U sales: 2.47 million

Do you really think that, across February, March, and April, the Wii U won't sell 800,000 units? Even with Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate, Lego City Undercover, Rayman Legends, and Injustice: Gods Among Us releasing in that time in the West, and Dragon Quest X in Japan?

Oh, but you want to complain that this is an unfair comparison, perhaps? OK, let's just compare the two regions for which we can all agree it's a fair comparison - US and Japan. The Wii U has been out (data available - to 19th of January) for 9 weeks in the US and 7 weeks in Japan. So lets get the numbers for each system across those two regions for those numbers of weeks:

Wii U:  989,000 US + 740,000 Jap = 1,729,000

PS3: 775,000 US, 398,000 Jap = 1,173,000

Why not include Europe? Because Sony was too slow in releasing in Europe - they had bragged about how they could do a better worldwide launch than MS (who hit Japan, America, and Europe, but failed to hit some of the minor regions, like here in Australia)... and then did worse. I'm sorry, but PS3 launch occurred in November 2006, you don't get to arbitrarily say "well, we only count regional release dates", because that's not how the market works - Europe doesn't exist in a vacuum. To make the point, PS3 sold 3.4 million units in the first 8 weeks after launch in Europe. By the same date, Wii (which launched in Europe around the same time as Japan and America, and around the same time as PS3 launch in those two regions) had sold 7.3 million units, and the PS3 was already the worst-selling console by week compared with all of the other gen 7 systems.

The only other way to fairly compare sales is across an entire year, because mid-year is different from end-of-year. Since we don't have an entire year's worth of sales to compare, that's going to have to wait.

At the end of the day, no matter how you cut it, Wii U in 2012 and early 2013 is doing significantly better than PS3 in 2006 and early 2007. If you want to do a comparison that includes European numbers, then wait until March or April, when the comparison will be a fair one across the systems. If you don't consider that to be fair enough, then wait until the Wii U has been out a year in each region, and compare 1-year sales numbers by region.

Or do you disagree with the assertion that releasing in one region 4 months late affects the sales numbers?

The GC sold 5 million a year for the first few years. The Wii U has sold half that amount in two months. I really don't see how your argument makes any sense.

Sony fans are like a battered house wife, they get abused and still stick around for more.

And how is the Wii U selling right now? I'm not talking about the launch sales. I'm talking full years on the market. Gamecube in 2001 (when it was released everywhere but Europe) did over 2m units (it did more than 1m in Japan alone). So its launch "year" was comparable to the Wii U. In 2002 and 2003 the Gamecube did roughly 5m units a year. That's what I'm talking about. Do you think the Wii U will keep up that holiday sales pace and double its LTD sales in the next 2 months? You can't just use holiday / launch sales and take that as the sales pace of a console. The Vita sold 300k units in its first week in Japan - should we just extrapolate that number to predict its yearly sales? The PS3 did 600k units in Europe first week - how did that develop? The Wii U is currently (!) on pace to do 150k units a month according to VGChartz. That's definitely not above Gamecube level. 

Empty= Library and the actual recorded usage was less than the competition which sold less. This means in actual value it wasn't worth as much even to casuals. 

Games sell consoles. The Wii U has one game that you can't get anywhere else that is targetted at the core gamer (the type of gamer that buys consoles early) - ZombiU. Another two are expected within the next couple of months, along with two other games that are almost certain to drive demand. And there's probably more that haven't been announced yet (because Nintendo haven't done their third-party Direct, yet).

Now, let's address your mathematics. The Wii U sold 39k last week, and that's the worst it has gotten to - saying "30-40k" and then using 35k from that range, and then saying "but it's still dropping" AFTER that, is just disingenuous. Immediately, that increases the numbers by 50k, when you correct for that. And then there's the fact that there's 14-15 more weeks to the end of April, not 13 - that gives another 40-80k, bringing the number prior to accounting for effects of games up to 540-580k. But more than that, there hasn't been a single notable Wii U release since launch. That won't be true going forwards, and one of the biggest gripes people have had about the Wii U so far is not knowing what else is coming to the system - that's another thing that is starting to be addressed, with interest in the Wii U noticeably higher now online than it was two weeks ago.

It's just naive to think that it's going to stay this low for another three months, especially considering that sales usually increase between January and March.

But hey, let's ignore that side for a moment, and turn our attention to the other angle. "Wii U is doing badly", right? What are the other systems doing compared with last year? January 21, 2011: PS3 195k, 360 186k, Wii 122k, 3DS 195k, Vita 16k. January 19, 2012: PS3 113k, 360 85k, Wii 32k, 3DS 176k, Vita 28k. The only one with higher numbers is Vita, and it's selling more poorly than the Wii U. The game market is weak at the moment. Is it going to stay that way? Probably not. And why would the Wii U be affected any differently from the rest, in this regard? Especially when it's still lacking in major system-sellers (NSMB U isn't enough on its own, and the only other system-sellers are Nintendo Land and ZombiU - one game appeals to retro fans, the other is a new and untested IP). What happens when Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest, etc, arrive on the system?