To me this seems like people who actually played the wii u also want one.
Better marketing from the beginning and this wouldn't have been a problem. :-/

I'm surprised about the 3DS version gaining interest to be honest

Percentages on their own are as always pretty useless. But since this is a thread about Amazon, I wanna mention something I noticed this morning on Amazon.de and I don't know if I should find this funny or anything else.

Amazon.de has not removed the PS4 version of the Rise of Tomb Raider on their site, this has resulted not only in the game being the 3rd most wished for gaming item, no it has also resulted in the PS4 version, that doesn't even exist, outpre-ordering the X1 version of the game and apparently not even by a little.

PS4: 209 in hourly bestsellers
X1: 1424 in hourly bestsellers

Who are those people pre ordering the game on PS4?

The 3DS version could very well outsell the Wii U version, it's set to definitely do it in Japan already.

That is, amazing!!!

This is why Nintendo needs as much presence as they can get.

Probably because the preorder numbers were so low in the first place.

Honestly I'm pretty sure it will

Their marketing this year for the core audience is waaaay better, but they still need to improve in the way they reach the more casual market (those that don't even know what E3/Gamescon are).

That's good news anyway. I also hope that someday they start making directs for gamescon.

Interest in the console is steadily rising

Thats great news, hopefully the hardware boost will be a lot greater then it was in japan