Better luck next time, Nintendo, better luck next time.

Looking back, WiiU numbers are miserable considering all the support Nintendo gave it. It deserved better.

It's not about luck, but about good management.

I'll save that "it's something image"

Starfox has been delayed and Yoshi, Fatal Frame and Devils Third will do absolutely nothing of note this holiday.
 
Nintendo typically  have a decent system seller during the holidays, but not this year. Splatoon will likely be the best selling game and outside of Japan that doesn't shift a notable amount of systems. Mario Maker also did very little hardware wise. According VGC WIi U sold 1.7m between November and the first week of Jan Last holiday. I wouldn't expect any more then it selling 1.5m (11.5m) given the state of the Wii U's holiday line up and the price and software competition coming from Sony/MS. 

Unless Nintendo pull out a price cut (not worth it for them) then I think 12m is improbable at this point.

That's 13.8 million and as far as year totals go, a full 50% off in sales if we use 2.5 million and 15 million as markers and values. That's not exactly insignificant, unless you like wrestling and like to write the longest posts on vgchartz, in which case the maring extends to around 70%.

I think a $100 price cut this year (won't happen) would be the only thing that might boost those depleted 2015 numbers.

I'm surprised people still care about the Wii U's sales. Nintendo doesn't, so why should we?

Sarcasm aside, at least the Wii U will end up above the Vita lifetime if the Vita is as overtracked as it seems to be, so it's not the biggest bomb of the 8th gen. Both are wonderful little consoles IMO, mind you, but people love to compare the sales of the two, so I figured I'd give other Nintendo fans some consolation.

What...? The way you say that, makes it to arbitary...

No, it's not, if you have some elementary knowledge...

VG has wii u at 10.53m as of 3rd of October 3rd and it's shipments are at 10.73m as of 30th of September!

Meaning, 200k+ on the shelves... Pretty reasonabe, given its selling rate... Would you expect many wii u on the shelves or stores wanting many wii u units on their shelves? Some stores doesn't  even have it, or stop ordering it and it's not being sold in many rest of world countries...

As of 30th of September, Wii u stock in Japan was at 60k (deduced by comparison of shipments from Nintendo's data and sales from Media create data) with wii u LTD at 2.5m and a 10k+ weekly selling, it had the  same LTD in Europe with same weekly selling, so we can easily assume, that the stock size in Europe is the same with Japan's.

LTD in the NA/USA is at 4m+, consequently the stock must be double of what Japan has... 120k+! VGC puts ROW numbers at 600k ( a number that wii u has reached in one country, FRANCE), I suppose a very low stock 5k-10k! 60k+60k+120k+5k= 245k-260K on the shelveS!

Perhaps wii u is slightly  overtracked (40K-60K)  globally...

Don't worry I've got elementary,  secondary and university knowledge but thanks for the concern.  

I believe the Wii U is over tracked and if I'd to give a number I'd say 150k. 

I mean sales-wise...

150k? So  350K on the shelves? No way and I explained/rationalized  previously the reason why, very well...

And you keep talking at random... Excuse me, but That's somewhat absurd!