How so? It's on track to sell around 80k in June. It sold roughly 500k in december. I can't see where you're feeling is coming from.

Not sure if someone already answered you (too lazy to read through every post), however, if you were following their financials last year, you would have known that they had significantly overshipped in Q3-Q4 of their fiscal year 2012 leading to very very low shipments for Q1-Q2 2013 given how slowly the system was selling. So yea, in this case, shipments will indeed be lower then what they actually sold to consumers.

Nintendo announced last week that they have sold 5.86 million Wii U's to date. VGChartz still shows 5.6.

And don't start with the argument "units shipped or units sold?" because every company do the same.

Definately.  I just hate threads that have sensational titles like "Is it time to panic?" for Wii U... When the OP was clearly made by a fanboy who is an obvious Sony fan (Signature clearly stated they only own a Sony console and handheld).

Nintendo definately, has to look at its current business model and decide how to proceed.  Obviously the Wii fans did not fully jump on board to Wii U.  And Nintendo has to really look in the mirror and decide which way to go.  Right now their console's appeal to the typical core gamer is next to zero, and the fanbase they built with the Wii doesn't seem to excited about what the Wii U offered.  Their games are still good, but they don't have many of the features of the newest consoles...  aka Blu-ray playback, memory, storage, social features, strong online features, etc.  They really need to decide if this is the way to sell a console going forward.  Its good to differentiate your product, but differentiation should not throw out 90% of what makes consoles interesting now-a-days. 

Moderated - Kresnik.

The vita is in no way a win for Sony and is not in a good place.

Youre either in denial or delusional.

How quickly people forget that the Wii would have outsold the PS3 by similar numbers at the beginning of last gen.


Convenient amnesia, I guess...

It was time to panic since early last year...

I ask myself when nintendo will release DS games, and at wich pace. How crazy would be if all games published by nintedo got released on the same day, hum?

Anyway, OP does this every month. Same theme(nintendon't), diferent reason.

Nintendo just needs to get the games out that people actually want, the lineup right now in terms of drawing power is terrible.

-Pikmin 3 - Always been a Niche Title, best seller was the 1st on Gamecube at 1.6 million.
-Wonderful 101 - Modern Gamecube game for the most hardcore gamers.
- WInd Waker HD - Remakes almost always only sell about 30 percent of the original release, sometimes way less.
-NSMBU - 4th release in last 4 years - People are burnt out on it.
-Wii Party U - Should have been Mario Party U.
-Game and Wario - Terrible Reviews, Weird name, Bad Sales.
-SM3DW - Semi-Sequel of 3D Land....Best game on Wii U, helped boost Wii U sales alot.

The best the Wii U has to offer (SM3DW) is still a "Sorta-Sequel" of 3D Land. Wii Sports, True New Mario, True New Zelda, Smash Bros , Mario Kart. That's what moved Wii's last gen, and the Wii U has none. There is still plenty of interest in Nintendo, the notion that people have moved on is ridiculous. The 3DS is outselling the Vita in Europe 6 to 1, yet everyone just calls Europe Sony territory. The Wii is still 1.5 million ahead of the PS3 in Europe. PS4 right now is the hot console with the games people want (COD/FIFA). If Nintendo wants the Wii U to start selling better they need to be the console with the games that people really want. Nintendo only has themselves to blame right now.

Until XB1 can double the Wii U's  system sales I wouldn't begin to worry.