How can Nintendo gamers even talk about other system failing?

[Kresnik]

Jon-Erich said:

spurgeonryan said:

When the Wii U is in the state it is in. The 3DS is just finally fully recovering from a disasterous blanch, and the Wii went out with a whimper.

 

Does it make them feel better?

Sigh....Wii U passed the 3 million mark last week and will most likely pass PS Vita before March 31st. 

That's an interesting one.  The 3 million is shipped to retailers, no?

And even accounting for some undertracking here on VGChartz, you think Nintendo are going to sell ~ 1.5 million more Wii-U's in 2 months than Sony are going to sell Vita's, considering the gap was 10k last week and 15k the week before?

Over the initial launch period when the console was still doing quite well, I think multiple people were predicting that Wii-U would overtake Vita before the end of March.  That really seems like a pipe dream at the moment.  Aside from Dragon Quest, which hasn't even been given a release date, there is nothing for Japan (and even Dragon Quest is a Wii port).  Rayman Legends & LEGO City Undercover may help in the west, but they're going to have to be advertised pretty damn well to help sell 1.5 million Wii-U's.

I think it's inevitable that Wii-U is going to pass Vita at some point.  But the idea that it'll pass before March seems a little absurd by now.  Unless you were talking about March 31st 2014 of course, which seems much more realistic!