I'm just trying to figure out why beating W101 means anything beyond Splatoon is not a flop. And I don't think anyone thought it would do that badly. I know I mentioned W101 in connection to Splatoon in a thread last year saying that new IP doesn't seem to do well on Nintendo home consoles anymore (motion control craze aside). But I never said Splatoon would sell as low as W101. So are you making up excessively low expectations for the purposes of trying to make out that Splatoon has vastly exceeded such expectations, when in fact no such expectations ever existed? Aside from my past forumn activity which did not actually suggest W101 level of sales, I don't recall anyone else making a serious claim that Splatoon would sell as badly as W101. Happy to be corrected on this.

Does that mean the stock is still quite low? 

Well that's the benefit of sometimes trying a new IP rather than doing the same thing over and over again.

New IP tend to be better driver's of hardware sales. Brain Training and Wii Sports obviously drove the DS and Wii and while it's probably far too late to salvage the Wii U, at least some valuable lessons can be learned for the NX. 

Hopefully Nintendo will get the message that they should try new IP but do so in a real mainstream manner and actually market the game too.

Also I think it's safe to say, people like competetive/multiplayer Nintendo games. Nintendo might want to focus a bit more of that. Also being allergic to online gaming was also another one of those taboos that Nintendo should've gotten past years ago too as Splatoon is really Nintendo's first online-first hit.