Not bad! Could do better, but it's something!

nice "argument". nintendo systems will never do well without a huge hit because 10/15 year old consoles in different market contexts didn't.

nsmbU didn't do a thing? keep telling that to yourself.

what concept? it's a videogame, people care about the games, period.

for a series that always sells more than 6M, it's certainly a factor. and the "nintendo core" is as big as ever.

Good stuff.

You could say that, but both Pikmin 3 and W101 add to a strong library that makes the Wind waker bundle look more appealing beyond the game itself.

So without it what would you expect WiiU sales to be? 2m??? That'd highlight even more how the concept of WiiU is it's biggest problem.

Yeah, it would have done worse, you are right that NSMBU helped, but not in the scale Nintendo had expected. Also, it's true that NSMBU is still helping today, like zippy said, to create a diverse library. NSMBU at the end of the gen will be a sleeper hit it is undoubtable.

I think most agree the wii U sales are bad to date- We all agree they will get better starting now thru Spring 2014- Many of us think "better" will still be far below what is needed and def below the 9 million sales target Nintendo has for this fiscal year and some think they will hit the target- my question is, regardless of what one thinks the Wii U hardware sales will end up, how will the software sales do per Wii u sold?

So far it looks like the wii U is poised to have among the worst attach rates of any recent console and if you read about all the people that have or will be buying a Wii U for specific games like Smash Brothers and Mario Kart, it seems the Wii U is destined to be a "Nintendo 1st party exclusive" machine for many and a specific game(s) machine for a large % of buyers as well- I think the # of people who have a Wii U as an only console or Primary console AND buy lots of software for it are a very low % of current and future owners- so even though hardware sales will rise it seems like correlating software sales will be lower than average fro most consoles regardless of which Company- The low software sales to date and highly possible low software attach rate in the future could be a bigger dilemma for the wii u than anything else to date- It seems that 3rd party games alre likely to struggle even when/if Wii U hardware sales grow

It is still going to be under 100k units