GameStop says consumers have reserved 1.2 million Wii U titles, or double the number of Wii games in 2006! Gamasutra says 2.4 games per console reservation......

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RolStoppable said:

sales2099 said:
Maybe it has something to do with WiiU actually having core appeal games......

Probably not, unless you want to insist that Twilight princess isn't a "core appeal game".

The actual reasons are that more and more people started to preorder games over the years and that the Wii U is the follow-up to a successful console (the Wii), unlike the Wii which followed the GC. That's why you have significantly more people securing their consoles and games with preorders than six years ago.

You named the exception

Your logic is flawed in that casuals are fickle and are not loyal to any particular product. My take: the core gamers are coming back because WiiU has core games.