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

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S.Peelman said:

runqvist said:

HappySqurriel said:

I disagree ...

While I think there is some value in comparing sales generation-over-generation to argue whether a system was a success or not, a system's sales are strong or weak regardless of how their previous generation system sold.

The PS-Vita is selling poorly because it is selling at a rate of less than 5 million units per year, not because it is selling at half the rate of the PSP. The XBox 360's sales in Japan are poor because it will (likely) have sold less than 2 million units after being on the market for 8+ years, even though the XBox 360 sold far more units in Japan than the XBox did.

You can disagree as much as your heart desires, but that does not change the fact that the success of a product is measured against its predecessor.

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Meh.

If that were the definition of success the only successful consoles ever would be the Genesis, Wii, PS2 and the 360.

Well, those are the only consoles which have increased the install base compared to their predecessors. I personally would add nes and ps1 because they were first entries and got a good marketshare to that list, maybe some older consoles too but I don't know much about them or care to find out.