The Wii U is being outsold by last gen consoles? And what of it?

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Soundwave said:
I don't expect the Wii U to outsell the PS3/360 in 2013 either, it will likely stay in third place month to month.

It's the most expensive system.

It has the fewest games.

It's missing a lot of third party content (practically all the big third party games for the first half of next year are absent).

I don't see The Wonderful 101 or Pikmin 3 causing a hardware spike.

Nintendo could drop the price maybe next summer, but Sony/MS would likely respond by dropping the PS3/360 price too.

Yeah, there's a good chance of that.  We have Bioshock Infinite, another COD (of course) and frik'n GTAV coming out for very affordable consoles next year. 

The Wonderful 101 and Pikmin 3 will undoubtedly be great, but they aren't going to move consoles in large numbers.  I don't know that they'd drop the price quite that soon (particularly with WiiU Fit coming) but Nintendo really has to step up its A-game and have some serious system sellers.  They absolutely cannot squander their lead so that they are well armed against the higher priced NeXtBox/PS4.