Nintendo Wii U Will Sell Out, Sell Faster Than Wii (during first holiday season)

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Moonhero said:

Viper1 said:

Moonhero said:
I thought Nintendo has said there would be 5.5 million at launch. Down from 5.83 Million at launch of the Wii. PLUS, some Wii U will be white, not the system people are looking for. Wii U black is going to a MAJOR seller this winter.

They plan to ship 5.5 million in the launch quarter.  That means up to March 31st, 2013.

Then that is even less than I thought. Wow.

Yeah, if you were expecting 5.5m units available on day 1, that's completely unrealistic.

To put things in perspective, the biggest launch day in history so far was the Playstation 2, which managed a 500,000 unit sell-out day one (NA only).  Including the launch day units for the rest of the world, it wouldn't be remotely close to 5m+ available.