Source is twifinite.net

Author is Nick Santagelo

(full article at the source)

Mini NES Classic Sold Almost as Many Units in November as Wii U Did in Six Months

That Nintendo’s miniature NES Classic Edition console has been successful is hardly news. [...]

But there’s some new perspective indicating that the retro console is far more popular than Nintendo’s flagship games platform, the Wii U. Ars Technica is reporting that the NES Classic has been so popular this holiday season, that its sales in November alone nearly matched six months’ worth of Wii U sales. The NPD Group attributes 196,000 sales to the NES Mini during the month of November and just 220,000 to the Wii U from the April to September period.

This astounding feat was accomplished despite the NES Classic not going on sale until November 11. Had it been on sale the entire month, its rate of sale indicates it would have moved 294,000 units. [...]

That doesn’t take into account that November sales of consumer products tend to be higher than those in any month between April and September. Still, it’s probably safe to say that the miniaturized Nintendo Entertainment System is exponentially more popular than the Wii U is right now.

The unique combination of the seemingly everlasting popularity of Nintendo’s first games console and consumer apathy toward its current one have made for a situation neither of Nintendo’s main competitors would likely find themselves in.

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Meanwhile, the Wii U continues its slow death march, with successor Nintendo Switch set to launch sometime in March 2017.

At $60 a unit, not much of an accomplishment.

That begs the question, do you think at this point, if WiiU were to be priced 60, would it gain such momentum like mini NES did?

No question about it but it would cost Nintendo a fortune.

That's great and all, but they really need to restock more of these.

I think it also outsold the PS4 Pro in Japan!

Soooo good job!
Hopefully Nintendo learns to make more on the next mini.

Its also awareness of the product that affected the Wii U. Some have said that the people they've asked don't know what a Wii U was or what it does still. The Wii U ultimately failed due to a variety of reasons which includes lack of marketing. $60 might have helped sell more, but what good would it do if its gonna bleed money? You're selling at a huge loss. Its old tech, but not $0.02 cheap tech to be sold at such a price.

It could have, but Nintendo chose to voluntarily cripple its shipment so that it wouldn't paint such a bleak picture of the WiiU.

That sucks pretty bad for the Wii U. I guess no one wants it anymore. Though I am a bit surprised the NES mini was a really popular item. I didn't think that many people would care that much long past console mostly old Nintendo fans would want... but then 196,000 is hardly anything either. Not sure what Ninten's thinking, shipping such a low numbers.

Seems odd to compare a launch number to that of a dying end of life number.