What if the WiiU does fail? No one seems interested~

[Conegamer]

You've been doing a lot of these threads lately Spurge. I'm not particularly impressed.

And success is a relative thing. The WiiU and 3DS will never sell as well as the Wii and DS, that is almost a given. But it doesn't mean it will sell badly. Do we count the PS3 as a 'failure' for being quite a way off hitting half the numbers of the PS2? I don't think so. If Sony are happy and content with those numbers, then good.

Similarly, you can't compare the success of a console which has no competition. If, say launch aligned, the WiiU sells 50 million in its first 5 years (will almost certainly be more), but the 720 sells 35mil and the PS4 28mil, then would you call the WiiU a 'failure'? No; you have to consider the fact the market has changed. The only reason people are citing the Vita as a 'failure' is because of its relative sales to its predecessor and to its direct competitor, which shows the market is (mostly) still there, but the Vita can't capitalise on it.

And, at the end of the day, it's been out for 2 weeks. It launched in Japan 2 days ago. It's sold over a million units now (almost certainly), and is sold out in many areas. How can we consider it a failure already?