Wii U is now 1 month old and has sold 1.8 million units. How is it doing?

[Stefan.De.Machtige]

Soleron said:

Carl2291 said:
I thought it would have a better start than the Wii, but fade off really quickly in Q1 2013. A big launch with poor numbers following shortly after for a while.

Expected NSMB to do launch wonders.
Thought supply wouldnt be a problem, while the Wii was sold out everywhere.
It had, or seemed to have, a healthy launch library.

Expected ~2.3 Million in a Month. In all honesty though, over 1.4M is still really good.

Same here. Although now I think Japan sales will stay high.

I already didn't feel good bout Nintendo Land but seeing the game in action via a first-time Let's-Play meant I would use it in a lecture on 'How Not To Design Games' very effectively. Every rule of good design is broken, quite apart from the actual appeal.

At this point Wii U fans are expecting exclusives and wanted first party titles to appear. I do not think they will - I think third party support is now dead, and Nintendo will do nothing people want except 3D Mario and 3D Zelda, but those will be far too late (say Q4 2014 and 2015 respectively) to revive it.

What rules did they break?